Corporal
noun
In the military, a corporal is a rank above a private and below a sergeant.
Sergeant Smith was promoted from corporal last month.
Often appears as...
- promoted to corporal
- corporal rank
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Technical
noun
In the Church, a corporal is a white cloth where the bread and wine are placed during a Christian communion ceremony.
The priest laid the bread and wine on the corporal.
Often appears as...
- place on the corporal
- corporal on the altar
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Academic
adjective
Corporal means relating to the human body.
Corporal punishment is banned in many countries.
Often appears as...
- corporal punishment
- corporal functions
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
noun
In the military, a corporal is a rank above a private and below a sergeant.
Sergeant Smith was promoted from corporal last month.
Often appears as...
- promoted to corporal
- corporal rank
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In the Church, a corporal is a white cloth where the bread and wine are placed during a Christian communion ceremony.
The priest laid the bread and wine on the corporal.
Often appears as...
- place on the corporal
- corporal on the altar
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Corporal means relating to the human body.
Corporal punishment is banned in many countries.
Often appears as...
- corporal punishment
- corporal functions
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Military Rank
Corporal is a specific rank, so use it only when talking about military positions.
He just got promoted to corporal last week.
Pro Tip 2/3Hierarchy Context
Corporal is used in hierarchical systems, often indicating authority or responsibility.
As a corporal, she has to lead her squad.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Basic Training
It's incorrect to call new recruits corporals; the title is earned with experience.
After two years, he advanced from private to corporal.
Pro Tip 1/3Military Rank
Corporal is a specific rank, so use it only when talking about military positions.
He just got promoted to corporal last week.
Pro Tip 2/3Hierarchy Context
Corporal is used in hierarchical systems, often indicating authority or responsibility.
As a corporal, she has to lead her squad.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Basic Training
It's incorrect to call new recruits corporals; the title is earned with experience.
After two years, he advanced from private to corporal.
Pro Tip 1/3Military Rank
Corporal is a specific rank, so use it only when talking about military positions.
He just got promoted to corporal last week.
Pro Tip 2/3Hierarchy Context
Corporal is used in hierarchical systems, often indicating authority or responsibility.
As a corporal, she has to lead her squad.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Basic Training
It's incorrect to call new recruits corporals; the title is earned with experience.
After two years, he advanced from private to corporal.
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Pico Iyer: A Portable...
actually very kind but probably wouldn't have wanted to spoil me too much and a school where we had to run through showers cold showers every morning at 6:00 a.m. and there was a lot of corporal punishment and all the boys were allowed to beat younger boys in fact encouraged to do so and in between
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Science can answer moral...
where corporal punishment in the classroom is legal, where it is legal for a teacher to beat a child with a wooden board, hard, and raising large bruises and blisters and even breaking the skin. And hundreds of thousands of children, incidentally, are subjected to this every year.
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Science can answer moral...
states in our country where corporal punishment in the classroom is legal where it is legal for a teacher to beat a child with a wooden board heart under raising large bruises and blisters and even breaking the skin and a hundreds of thousands of children instantly are
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Pico Iyer: A Portable...
actually very kind but probably wouldn't have wanted to spoil me too much and a school where we had to run through showers cold showers every morning at 6:00 a.m. and there was a lot of corporal punishment and all the boys were allowed to beat younger boys in fact encouraged to do so and in between
Video examples
Science can answer moral...
where corporal punishment in the classroom is legal, where it is legal for a teacher to beat a child with a wooden board, hard, and raising large bruises and blisters and even breaking the skin. And hundreds of thousands of children, incidentally, are subjected to this every year.
Video examples
Science can answer moral...
states in our country where corporal punishment in the classroom is legal where it is legal for a teacher to beat a child with a wooden board heart under raising large bruises and blisters and even breaking the skin and a hundreds of thousands of children instantly are
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Quote examples
Angus Deaton
British Economist
I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.
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Keith Ellison
American Politician
While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants?
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John Shelton Reed
Sociologist
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
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Ranvir Shorey
Indian Actor
I had two elder brothers and they would thrash me if I do something wrong, then dad would thrash me. I think corporal punishment as disciplining the child is what I am questioning... I feel there are less flawed methods.
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Christina Hoff Sommers
American Author
We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
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Shakti Mohan
Indian Dancer
Being in the business of the entertainment, fitness plays a more imperative role because there is a corporal representation to constantly cater to.
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William E. Simon
American Public Servant
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
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John Rzeznik
American Musician
In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.
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George Orwell
British Author
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
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Essie Davis
Australian Actress
Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.
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Angus Deaton
British Economist
I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.
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Keith Ellison
American Politician
While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants?
Quote examples
John Shelton Reed
Sociologist
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.
Quote examples
Ranvir Shorey
Indian Actor
I had two elder brothers and they would thrash me if I do something wrong, then dad would thrash me. I think corporal punishment as disciplining the child is what I am questioning... I feel there are less flawed methods.
Quote examples
Christina Hoff Sommers
American Author
We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.
Quote examples
Shakti Mohan
Indian Dancer
Being in the business of the entertainment, fitness plays a more imperative role because there is a corporal representation to constantly cater to.
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William E. Simon
American Public Servant
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
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John Rzeznik
American Musician
In my family, my earliest memory of you get out of line is - BAM! It was a lot of corporal punishment. But you can't do that.
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George Orwell
British Author
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
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Essie Davis
Australian Actress
Everyone has a point of view about corporal punishment.
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