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squad

skwɑd
WordNet
Interesting fact
The word "honcho" comes from a Japanese word meaning "squad leader" and first came into usage in the English language during the American occupation of Japan following World War II.
  1. (n) squad
    a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime
  2. (n) squad
    a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
  3. (n) squad
    a smallest army unit
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad.
  1. Squad
    (Mil) A small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.
  2. Squad
    Hence, any small party.
  3. Squad
    Sloppy mud.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
R.C. Gaitlan, 21, walked up to two patrol officers who were showing their squad car computer felon-location equipment to children in a Detroit neighborhood. When he asked how the system worked, the officer asked him for identification. Gaitlan gave them his drivers license, they entered it into the computer, and moments later they arrested Gaitlan because information on the screen showed Gaitlan was wanted for a two-year-old armed robbery in St. Louis, Missouri.
  1. (n) squad
    Milit., any small number of men assembled, as for drill, inspection, or duty.
  2. (n) squad
    Any small party or group of persons: as, a squad of navvies; a set of people in general: usually somewhat contemptuous.
  3. squad
    To draw up in a squad.
  4. (n) squad
    Soft, slimy mud.
  5. (n) squad
    In mining, loose ore of tin mixed with earth.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Squad
    skwod a small body of men assembled for drill, any small group or company of men
Quotations
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Channing Pollock
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
Eldridge Cleaver
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. escouade, fr. Sp. escuadra, or It. squadra, (assumed) LL. exquadrare, to square; L. ex + quadra, a square. See Square

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary O. Fr. esquadre—It. squadra, and L. exquadrāre, to make square.

Usage in the news

Circuit City's answer to Best Buy's Geek Squad uses an experienced service provider (PlumChoice). pcmag.com

Best Buy will lay off 2,400 employees, including 600 Geek Squad members. boiseweekly.com

Geek Squad On the Firing Line . boiseweekly.com

Will lay off 2,400 employees, including 600 workers in its customer tech support division known as the Geek Squad, according to Bloomberg News. boiseweekly.com

Four Britons may face firing squad over drug haul (VIDEO). globalpost.com

Four Britons — including a 55-year-old housewife — face death by Indonesian firing squad if convicted over a $2.6 million drug haul in Bali. globalpost.com

Wisconsin Democrats' circular firing squad . ashingtonpost.com

Last Utah firing squad execution occurred in June 2010. cnn.com

GOP candidates in circular firing squad . ashingtonpost.com

'Kate Plus 8' Series Finale: Kate Gosselin Faces the Firing Squad (Exclusive Video). hollywoodreporter.com

Choosing between a ' firing squad ' and 'death by starvation'. austinchronicle.com

Democrats engage in 'circular firing squad '. ashingtonpost.com

Utah Firing Squad Executes Convicted Killer. foxnews.com

Man charged for drunkenly stealing Purdue Police squad car. lfi.com

Then there was the Lithuanian squad. dallasnews.com

Usage in scientific papers

The main result of this section is based on the existence of a firing-squad CA with specific properties expressed by Lemma 3.2.
Clandestine Simulations in Cellular Automata

The idea of the construction is the following: given some CA F over alphabet A, we add an extra (firing-squad) component which is able to generate any configuration of AZ arbitrarily far in the future.
Clandestine Simulations in Cellular Automata

Basically, this CA freezes the first component while applying the firing squad on the second component until some firing state appears, which then frees this second component and starts the application of F .
Clandestine Simulations in Cellular Automata

Let S be the firing-squad CA defined in [Kar94].
Clandestine Simulations in Cellular Automata

Mazoyer. A Six-State Minimal Time Solution to the Firing Squad Synchronization Problem.
Partitioned quantum cellular automata are intrinsically universal

Usage in literature

The officer blew a whistle and a squad of soldiers filed in. "A Yankee Flier Over Berlin" by Al Avery

These are removed by the burying squad, and sent home as announcers of the decease. "The Note-Book of an Attache" by Eric Fisher Wood

Then the flag took another fall, and off went another squad of horses, and around the hill they went out of sight. "Phemie Frost's Experiences" by Ann S. Stephens

His telephone call brought a squad of his comrades. "Astounding Stories, April, 1931" by Various

How about joining that squad? "The Camerons of Highboro" by Beth B. Gilchrist

I saw a squad, caught in the beam of an Eastern ray-projector, destroyed. "Astounding Stories, May, 1931" by Various

Squad after squad, the drowsy Imperialists moved off, letting the strangers relieve them. "The Missourian" by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

The hulking figure of the puddler could be seen picking out his men; he had three set off in a squad. "In the Heart of a Fool" by William Allen White

The door swung open and Jackson entered with his squad of U.B.I. "A World by the Tale" by Gordon Randall Garrett

Sometimes a squad would run forward fifty feet and drop. ""And they thought we wouldn't fight"" by Floyd Gibbons

Usage in poetry
A Squad of regular infantry
In the Commune's closing days,
Had captured a crowd of rebels
By the wall of Pere-la-Chaise.
"A Triumph Of Order" by John Hay Author object (379)
Thy flesh to earth, thy soul to God,
We gave, O gallant brother;
And o'er thy grave the awkward squad
Fired into one another!
"General B.F. Butler" by Ambrose Bierce Author object (32)
Now, when the neighboring doctors found
A case so rare had been descried,
They every day her ribs did pound
In squads of twenty; so she died.
"The Stethoscope Song. A Professional Ballad" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Author object (518)
'In and out among the cotton,
Mud, and chains, and stores, and anchors,
Tramped a squad of battered scarecrows -
Poor old Dixie's bottom dollar!
"Romance" by William Ernest Henley Author object (703)
There squads of skate-winged demons lurk,
skirling through everlasting murk
where ruddy flames hold revel.
All is fire and ice by turns,
everything freezes or it burns,
the dead souls —- and the Devil.
"Hell" by Jonas Hallgrimsson Author object (397)
The Mudville squad began to slump, the team was in the air;
Their playing went from bad to worse - nobody seemed to care.
"Back to the woods with Casey!" was the cry from Rooters' Row.
"Get some one who can hit the ball, and let that big dub go!"
"Casey's Revenge" by Henry Grantland Rice