Patrol

Definition: Patrol

Patrol

Noun

1. A detachment used for security or reconnaissance.

2. The activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes.

3. A group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security.

Verb

1. Maintain the security of by carrying out a control.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "patrol" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Note: Patrol \Pa*trol"\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Patrolled; Patrolling.]. (references)

Military & Defense

Public Administration

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Patrol

Combatant

Man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier. flattop; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer.

Journey

Flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate.

Safety

Escort, convoy; garrison; watch, mount guard, patrol.

Warning

Watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse; (indication of locality). sentinel, sentry; watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout.

Crosswords: Patrol

Your mission is to proceed up the Nung River in a Navy patrol boat (Apocalypse Now; writing credit: John Milius ; Francis Ford Coppola)

Our patrol planes (Boot, Das; writing credit: Lothar G. Buchheim; Wolfgang Petersen)

It may be called the State Police, State Troopers, Militia, the Rangers or the Highway Patrol. These are the stories of the men whose training, skill and courage have enforced and preserved our state laws (Highway Patrol; writing credit: Richard L. Adams; Ed Adamson)

Before I joined the Space Patrol, I wanted to be a racer (Project A-Ko Versus Battle 2: Blue Side; writing credit: Yuji Kawahara; Katsuhiko Nishijima)

Shangani Patrol (1970)

Killer Patrol (1968)

Patrol Dogs of the United States Air Force (1968)

Bat Patrol (1967)

Cuckoo Patrol (1967)

American Patrol (performing artist: The Glenn Miller Orchestra)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Lapd: Patrol, Swat, Air Support, K-9, Crash, and Homicide (Power Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Civil Air Patrol News (reference)

• Ski Patrol Magazine (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (reference)

• Hopalong Cassidy:Border Patrol (reference)

• Border Patrol (reference)

• Investigative Reports:Border Patrol (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dancefloor Electronica to Patrol Planets To (reference)

• Slow Pain Presents: Hood Patrol (reference)

• Max Steiner: The Lost Patrol; Virginia City; The Beast With Five Fingers (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Matchbox Emergency Patrol (reference)

• Matchbox: Emergency Patrol (Jewel Case) (reference)

• Ghoul Patrol (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Driveway Patrol Sensor and Receiver Kit (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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A harbor patrol boat at Dana Point. Credit: America's Coastlines.

School of jacks patrol the reef. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Fish and Wildlife Service Patrol Boat ALASKA. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The Fish and Wildlife Service Patrol Boat BLUE WING near Craig on the Prince of Wales Island. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Conservation Patrol boat used to enforce fishing regulations. Credit: Small World.

Operation Southern Watch - New Mexico Guard F-16s on Patrol.

Floating down the Gulkana NWSR, river cleanup patrol. Credit: Lisa Holzapfel.

Rogue River - Blosom Bar, BLM Kayak Patrol. Credit: Unknown.

Preparing Seabee Airplane for Patrol. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Patrol Vehicles at Tok. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The step of the patrol became more and more distinct

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Health

It is an extraordinarily complex system that relies on an elaborate and dynamic communications network that exists among the many different kinds of immune system cells that patrol the body. At the heart of the system is the ability to recognize and respond to substances called antigens whether they are infectious agents or part of the body (self antigens). (references)

Business

The UAE navy is small--about 1,000 personnel--and maintains 12 well-equipped coastal patrol boats. (references)

The RDN is primarily a coastal patrol navy as dictated by geography, although naval patrols extend throughout the Kingdom of Denmark. (references)

In response to this demand there are currently dozens of companies providing security equipment; property protection, monitoring, and patrol services; and money transport. (references)

Civil Liberties

Albania

Italian military and border patrol squads operated in various coastal zones in Albania in an effort to stop the flow of illegal immigrants. (references)

Sweden

Police require a permit for public demonstrations, but the authorities routinely grant such permits, with rare exceptions to prevent clashes between antagonistic groups or due to insufficient police resources to patrol an event adequately. (references)

Italy

Most illegal migrants paid fees to smugglers and some risked death because smugglers at times unload their human cargo at sea to avoid capture by patrol boats. (references)

Economic History

India

With India's long coastline and extensive Exclusive Economic Zone, the navy and coast guard work hard to patrol the waters dictated by India's economic and strategic interests. (references)

Vanuatu

Australia has provided the bulk of Vanuatu's military assistance, training its paramilitary mobile force and also providing patrol boats to patrol Vanuatu's waters. (references)

Guinea

The navy has about 900 personnel and operates several small patrol craft and barges. (references)

Human Rights

Yugoslavia

In February CIVPOL arrested two KPC members who were seen by a KFOR patrol beating a motorist near Podujevo/Podujeve; they were released when the victim did not press charges. (references)

Tanzania

Unpaid party officials served as 10-cell leaders with authority to resolve problems at the grassroots level and to report to authorities any suspicious behavior, event, or noncompliance with compulsory night patrol service in the neighborhood. (references)

Solomon Islands

In June 2000, Malaitan militants in a police patrol boat used a heavy machine gun to support an attack on Guadalcanalese positions, killing perhaps six Guadalcanalese militants. (references)

Political Economy

Somalia

During the year, Mogadishu police began to patrol in the TNG-controlled areas of the city. (references)

Honduras

The National Preventive Police (formerly a paramilitary force known as the FUSEP) were placed under civilian control in 1997. The police handle public security, counternarcotics, and border patrol duties. (references)

Bolivia

The Special Counternarcotics Force (FELCN), including the Mobile Rural Patrol Unit (UMOPAR), is dedicated to antinarcotics enforcement. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

In one case in 2000, highway patrol officers suspected sex trafficking and turned around two buses carrying adolescent girls to a resort town in the Pantanal during a major fishing competition. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "patrol": air patrol ♦ antisubmarine patrol ♦ be on patrol ♦ border patrol ♦ combat air patrol ♦ combat patrol ♦ fighting patrol ♦ fixed station patrol ♦ Flank patrol ♦ frontier patrol ♦ go on patrol ♦ harbor patrol ♦ highway patrol ♦ long range patrol ♦ man on patrol ♦ offshore patrol ♦ patrol boat ♦ patrol car ♦ patrol duty ♦ patrol leader ♦ patrol man ♦ patrol ship ♦ patrol wagon ♦ prevention patrol ♦ prudent limit of patrol ♦ reconnaissance patrol ♦ shore patrol ♦ ski patrol ♦ standing patrol ♦ submarine patrol area ♦ to patrol. Additional references.

Beginning with "patrol": patrol-car, patrol-wagon.

Ending with "patrol": crossing-patrol, expensive-to-patrol, Foot-patrol, ice-patrol, mid-patrol, nova-patrol, war-patrol.

Albanian

patrulloj (police), patrullim, patrullë, vrojtim (notice, observation, sampling, spotting, watch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قام بدورية, ‏حرس (escort, guard, guarding, lifeguard, safeguard, shepherd, squire, ward, watch, watchdog), ‏زمرة من الكشافين, ‏خفر (picket), ‏جولة (circuit, cruise, ramble, ride, round, run, swing, tour, trek, turn), ‏دورية (long range patrol, periodical, review, sheet). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обикалям (circle, compass, get about, get round, itinerate, orb, perambulate, ride, stooge around, stride, tour, travel, trip, walk), наблюдаване, патрулиране, патрулирам, патрул (round, scout). (various references)

Chinese 

邏 (logic), 巡逻 (Patrolling). (various references)

Czech

patrolovat, patrola, stráž (guard, relief, sentinel, sentry, watch), hlídkovat, hlídka (guard, sentry, watch). (various references)

Danish

patruljerende brandvagt (patrol man), patrulje. (various references)

Dutch

patrouilleren (to patrol). (various references)

Esperanto

patrolo, patroli. (various references)

Farsi 

پاسداری کردن (Watch), پاسداری (Watch), پاسبانی کردن , گشتی (Patrolman), گشت زدن (Cruise). (various references)

Finnish

partio, palovartija (patrol man), vartio (guard, watch), kulovartija (patrol man). (various references)

French

patrouille. (various references)

German

Patrouille. (various references)

Greek 

περιπολία (beat, sentry go). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקוף (beat), לשטר (police), לפטרל, פטרול. (various references)

Hungarian

járőr (picket, scout), őrjárat (beat, round). (various references)

Indonesian

patroli (round). (various references)

Italian

pattuglia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

斥候 (scout, spy), 巡回 (going around, round, tour). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

パトロール , せっこう (humble reference to one's own manuscript, mason, plaster, scout, spy, stonemason), けいら, けいえい (administration, escort, guard, management, swimming relay, the form and its shadow, things inseparable), じゅんかい (going around, round, tour), じゅんこう (cruise, cruising, go in order, Imperial tour, obedience, royal progress), ていさつたい (scouting party). (various references)

Korean 

경비하십시요. (various references)

Manx

patrole, patrolaghey. (various references)

Papiamen

patruyá, patruya. (various references)

Pig Latin

atrolpay.(various references)

Portuguese

patrulha, ronda (beat), patrulhar (scout). (various references)

Romanian

patrulare (beat, patrolling), patrula pe, strajã (guard, sentinel, sentry, shield, ward, watch), rond (round), gardã (guard, guardsman, watch), face ronduri de pazã. (various references)

Russian 

патруль, патрулировать патруль, патрулировать (patrolling), патрулирование, дозор. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

patrolirati, patroliranje, patrola (combat patrol), stražariti (stand guard), straža (dogwatch, guard, look out, lookout, sentinel, sentry, sentry go, watch), obilaziti (circle, circumambulate, haunt, itinerate, perambulate), izvidnica (reconnaissance patrol), izviđati (reconnoiter, reconnoitre). (various references)

Spanish

patrulla (section). (various references)

Swedish

patrull (guard, party, squad), patrullera, avpatrullera. (various references)

Turkish

keşif kolu (reconnaissance party, reconnaissance patrol, scouting party, Van, vanguard), devriye gezmek (be on one's beat), devriye gezme (walk), devriye (beat, rounds, roundsman). (various references)

Ukrainian

баражувати, баражування, патрулювати, патрулювання, патруль. (various references)

Vietnamese 

đội tuần tra. (various references)

patouiller. (various references)

patrouille. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "patrol": patrolled, patroller, patrollers, patrolling, patrolman, patrolmen, patrols. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Patrol" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dartoll, Jatrox, Pairoj, paral, parlo, Parral, parrel, parto, partos, pathol, patiol, patra, patri, patrix, patro, patroa, patroll, patros, Patrulla, payrol, Petroc, Piatrkow, pitol, Pitru, potoroo, Puteoli. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: portal.

-1 letter: aport, parol, polar, tolar.

-2 letters: alto, atop, lota, opal, oral, part, plat, plot, port, prao, prat, proa, rapt, rato, rota, rotl, taro, tarp, tola, tora, trap, trop.

-3 letters: alp, alt, apt, art, lap, lar, lat, lop, lot, oar, oat, opt, ora, ort, pal, par, pat, pol, pot, pro, rap, rat, rot, tao, tap.

+1 letter: caltrop, marplot, patrols, portals, prolate.

+2 letters: calthrop, caltrops, dioptral, lakeport, marplots, palpator, pastoral, patronal, patronly, pectoral, petiolar, petrosal, plastron, platform, plethora, polarity, polestar, portable, portably, portaled, postoral, postural, preallot, pulsator, temporal, tripodal, troopial, tropical, troupial, uprootal.

+3 letters: acropetal, allopatry, allotrope, allotropy, atemporal, calthrops, captopril, doorplate, lakeports, operantly, overleapt, overplant, palliator, palpators, pastorale, pastorali, pastorals, patrolled, patroller, patrolman, patrolmen, pectorals, peculator, percolate, pictorial, placatory, plastrons, platforms, plethoras, plutocrat, polestars, polywater, portables, portrayal, portulaca, posttrial, preallots, precoital, prolactin, prothalli, protozoal, pulsators, raptorial, saprolite, spoliator, sporulate, temporals, troopials, troupials, uprootals.