Flank

[flæŋk]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the side between ribs and hipbone.

(noun.) a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg.

(noun.) the side of military or naval formation; 'they attacked the enemy's right flank'.

(noun.) a subfigure consisting of a side of something.

(verb.) be located at the sides of something or somebody.

布伦达編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.

(n.) The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.

(n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet.

(n.) The side of any building.

(n.) That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.

(v. t.) To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.

(v. t.) To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.

(v. i.) To border; to touch.

(v. i.) To be posted on the side.

厄纳校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Side.

v. a. [1]. (Mil.) Attack on the side, approach on the side, turn the flank of.[2]. Secure on the side.[3]. Border upon, stand at the side of.

編輯:普鲁登斯

解釋/意思:

n. the side of an animal from the ribs to the thigh: the side or wing of anything esp. of an army or fleet: a body of soldiers on the right and left extremities.—v.t. to attack or pass round the side of: to protect the flanks of one's own army by detached bodies of troops or field-works or to threaten those of the enemy by directing troops against them.—v.i. to be posted on the side: to touch.—n. Flank′er a fortification which commands the flank of an assailing force.—v.t. (obs.) to defend by flankers: to attack sideways.—Flank company the company on the right or left when a battalion is in line; Flank files the soldiers marching on the extreme right and left of a company &c.

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