platoon
排,排长,排队,一排
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Definitions
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- : a military unit consisting of two or more squads or sections and a headquarters.
- : a small unit of a police force.
- : a company or group of persons: a platoon of visitors.
- : Football. a group of players specially trained in one aspect of the game, as offense or defense, and used as a unit: a halfback on the offensive platoon.
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- : Sports. to use at a position in a game alternately with another player or players.to alternate, as separate offensive and defensive squads.
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- : Sports. to alternate at a position with another player or players.to use players alternately at the same position.to alternate different teams.
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Examples
A platoon of National Guard members stood beside him and snapped pictures as the sun set behind the Washington Monument.
When the platoon leader was wounded by a buried bomb, Lorance was sent to lead the men, though he had no combat experience.
If they don’t and instead form a right-left platoon at first, both Kieboom and García could be in the majors next spring.
There’s this feedback that promotes the formation of platoons, because it’s easier to coordinate 10 10-car platoons than 100 cars, each with its own trajectory.
For the first application of my doctoral project on self-organizing systems, I thought, “Let’s try to have platoons of cars flock like birds.”
But that was Oliver expunging all this anger he had from not being able to get Platoon made yet, which was his baby.
It was the part that Willem Dafoe wound up playing in Platoon.
Once every ten days, a platoon rotates back to Balad Air Base to take showers and wash clothes.
One day, “myself and Holmes found ourselves kind of secluded from the majority of the platoon,” Morlock tells Krauss.
As the platoon was leaving the compound, they came across a local: Mullah Adahdad.
A frenzied bustle ensued as Wilkins directed a platoon of awed techs through the process of bringing the mountain to Mohammed.