Corporal vs. Carnal — What's the Difference?

Corporal is a military rank in use in some form by many militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. Within NATO, each member nation's corresponding military rank of corporal is combined under the NATO-standard rank scale code OR-3 or OR-4.

Relating to physical, especially sexual, needs and activities

A rank of non-commissioned officer in the army, above lance corporal or private first class and below sergeant.

Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites

A petty officer who attended solely to police matters, under the master-at-arms.

Worldly or earthly; temporal

Another term for fallfish

Of or relating to the body or flesh; bodily

A cloth on which the chalice and paten are placed during the celebration of the Eucharist.

Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.

Relating to the human body.

Worldly or earthly; temporal.

Of or relating to the body.

Of or relating to the body or flesh.

A noncommissioned rank in the US Army that is above private first class and below sergeant.

Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual.

A noncommissioned rank in the US Marine Corps that is above lance corporal and below sergeant.

Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.

One who holds either of these ranks or a similar rank in another military organization.

Of the appetites and passions of the body;

A white linen cloth on which the consecrated elements are placed during the celebration of the Eucharist.

Of or relating to the body or flesh;

(archaic) Having a physical, tangible body; material, corporeal.

Of or relating to or belonging to the body;

Of or pertaining to the body, especially the human body; bodily.

(zoology) Pertaining to the body (the thorax and abdomen), as distinguished from the head, limbs and wings, etc.

(military) A non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4. The rank below a sergeant but above a lance corporal and private.

A non-commissioned officer rank in the police force, below a sergeant but above a private or patrolman.

A worker in charge of the wagonway, reporting to the deputy.

(ecclesiastical) The white linen cloth on which the elements of the Eucharist are placed; a communion cloth.

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.

A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.

Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.

Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.

A noncommissioned officer in the army or airforce or marines

Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit;

Possessing or existing in bodily form;