Trench

[tren(t)ʃ] or [trɛntʃ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth.

(noun.) any long ditch cut in the ground.

(noun.) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor.

(verb.) dig a trench or trenches; 'The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench'.

(verb.) cut a trench in, as for drainage; 'ditch the land to drain it'; 'trench the fields'.

(verb.) set, plant, or bury in a trench; 'trench the fallen soldiers'; 'trench the vegetables'.

(verb.) cut or carve deeply into; 'letters trenched into the stone'.

(verb.) fortify by surrounding with trenches; 'He trenched his military camp'.

編輯:思朋斯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

(v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

(v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

(v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

(v. i.) To encroach; to intrench.

(v. i.) To have direction; to aim or tend.

(v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

(v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

(v. t.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

奥尔多手打

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. Encroach, intrude, infringe, trespass.

n. Ditch, fosse, moat, drain, sewer, water-course.

手打:旺达

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Moat, ditch, drain, fosse

SYN:Trespass, infringe, encroach,[See TREACHERY]

巴纳德編輯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to dig a ditch: to dig deeply with the spade or plough.—v.i. to encroach.—n. a long narrow cut in the earth: (fort.) an excavation to interrupt the approach of an enemy: an excavated approach made by besiegers.—n. Tren′chancy causticity.—adjs. Tren′chant Tren′ching cutting: sharp: severe—(Spens.) Tren′chand.—ns. Tren′cher; Trench′-plough a plough for trenching or turning up the land more deeply than usual.—v.t. to plough with a trench-plough.

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