Patrol vs. Petrol — What's the Difference?

A unit of six to eight Scouts or Guides forming part of a troop

A light fuel oil that is obtained by distilling petroleum and used in internal combustion engines.

A patrol is commonly a group of personnel, such as law enforcement officers, military personnel, or private security contractors that are assigned to monitor a specific geographic area. This is also often referred to as a beat.

A shade of greenish or greyish blue.

An expedition to keep watch over an area, especially by guards or police walking or driving around at regular intervals

Gasoline.

Keep watch over (an area) by regularly walking or travelling around it

Petroleum, a fluid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, primarily consisting of octane, commonly used as a motor fuel.

The act of moving about an area especially by an authorized and trained person or group, for purposes of observation, inspection, or security.

(informal) A motor vehicle powered by petrol (as opposed to diesel).

A person or group of persons who perform such an act.

Petroleum.

A military unit sent out on a reconnaissance or combat mission.

A volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines

One or more military vehicles, boats, ships, or aircraft assigned to guard or reconnoiter a given area.

A division of a Boy Scout troop or Girl Scout troop consisting of between six and eight children.

To engage in a patrol of.

To engage in a patrol.

(military) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.

(military) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.

(military) The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.

(policing) The largest division of officers within a police department or sheriff's office, whose assignment is to patrol and respond to calls for service.

Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the people thus guarding.

(Scouting) A unit of a troop, usually defined by certain ranks or age groups within the troop, and ideally comprised of six to eight members.

(intransitive) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

(transitive) To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman

To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.

A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.

Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire patrol.

See Boy Scout.

A detachment used for security or reconnaissance

The activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes

A group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security

Maintain the security of by carrying out a control