trench

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When you talk about digging a trench with spoons, it's obvious.

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Quick take

a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of trench gathered in one view.

noun

a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

noun

a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

noun

any long ditch cut in the ground

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for trench.

noun

a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

noun

a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

noun

any long ditch cut in the ground

verb

impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains"

verb

fortify by surrounding with trenches; "He trenched his military camp"

verb

cut or carve deeply into; "letters trenched into the stone"

verb

set, plant, or bury in a trench; "trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables"

verb

cut a trench in, as for drainage; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields"

verb

dig a trench or trenches; "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench"

Example sentences

When you talk about digging a trench with spoons, it's obvious.

If your enemy has trenches, you need trenches too. What else would you have done?

If you weren't there, you have no idea: Microsoft/Netscape was a trench war.

I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench.

I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit.

Secret kill lists and torture?Maybe someone should sneak a telepresence robot to congress, give it a dark trench coat and a code name.

Try dressing a video game girl up in a trench coat, with green hair, and ugly classes, and ask a girl if that's a character she'd like to play.

For example a bike route that crosses a freeway in a trench correctly shows the route without discontinuities.

They'd cut a trench around the entire planet, so that said moon were eventually orbiting below the surrounding planet surface....

It strikes me that a modern military operation is much more like a large scale construction project or perhaps software development than traditional trench warfare.

The notion of having it be a covered trench tunnel like Boston's Big Dig is interesting although at the depths they are talking about it might be interesting to make a semi-floating tube type tunnel.

Many years ago I embarked in the development of electronic products for a specific industry while trenching new territory and bringing new ideas to the user base.