Sergeant vs. Corporal

Sergeant and Corporal Definitions
Sergeant
A noncommissioned rank in the US Army or Marine Corps that is above corporal and below staff sergeant.
Corporal
Of or relating to the body.
Sergeant
Any of several ranks of noncommissioned officers in the US Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps
Master gunnery sergeant.
Staff sergeant.
Corporal
A noncommissioned rank in the US Army that is above private first class and below sergeant.
Sergeant
One who holds any of these ranks or a similar rank in another military organization.
Corporal
A noncommissioned rank in the US Marine Corps that is above lance corporal and below sergeant.
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Sergeant
The rank of police officer next below a captain, lieutenant, or inspector.
Corporal
One who holds either of these ranks or a similar rank in another military organization.
Sergeant
A police officer holding this rank.
Corporal
A white linen cloth on which the consecrated elements are placed during the celebration of the Eucharist.
Sergeant
A sergeant at arms.
Corporal
(archaic) Having a physical, tangible body; material, corporeal.
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Sergeant
(military) UK army rank with NATO code OR-6, senior to corporal and junior to warrant officer ranks.
Corporal
Of or pertaining to the body, especially the human body; bodily.
Corporal punishment
Corporal suffering
Sergeant
The highest rank of noncommissioned officer in some non-naval military forces and police.
Corporal
(zoology) Pertaining to the body (the thorax and abdomen), as distinguished from the head, limbs and wings, etc.
Sergeant
A lawyer of the highest rank, equivalent to the doctor of civil law.
Corporal
(military) A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private.
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Sergeant
A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign.
Sergeant surgeon, i.e. a servant, or attendant, surgeon
Corporal
A non-commissioned officer rank in the police force, below a sergeant but above a private or patrolman.
Sergeant
A fish, the cobia.
Corporal
A worker in charge of the wagonway, reporting to the deputy.
Sergeant
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Athyma; distinguished from the false sergeants.
Corporal
(ecclesiastical) The white linen cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed; a communion cloth.
Sergeant
A bailiff.
Corporal
A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels.
Sergeant
A servant in monastic offices.
Corporal
A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.
Sergeant
Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery.
The sergeant of the town of Rome them sought.
The magistrates sent the serjeant, saying, Let those men go.
This fell sergeant, Death,Is strict in his arrest.
Corporal
Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
Pillories and other corporal infections.
Sergeant
In a company, battery, or troop, a noncommissioned officer next in rank above a corporal, whose duty is to instruct recruits in discipline, to form the ranks, etc.
Corporal
Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.
A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are.
What seemed corporal meltedAs breath into the wind.
Sergeant
A lawyer of the highest rank, answering to the doctor of the civil law; - called also serjeant at law.
Corporal
A noncommissioned officer in the army or airforce or marines
Sergeant
A title sometimes given to the servants of the sovereign; as, sergeant surgeon, that is, a servant, or attendant, surgeon.
Corporal
Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit;
Bodily needs
A corporal defect
Corporeal suffering
A somatic symptom or somatic illness
Sergeant
The cobia.
Corporal
Possessing or existing in bodily form;
What seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind
An incarnate spirit
`corporate' is an archaic term
Sergeant
Any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the army or air force or marines ranking above a corporal
Sergeant
A lawman with the rank of sergeant
Sergeant
An English barrister of the highest rank