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Definition: FASCINE |
FASCINENoun1. A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc. |
Etymology: Fascine \Fas*cine"\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression fascina bundle of sticks, from fascis. See Fasces.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A bundle of branches bound together for use in protective works. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Brushwood which has been rolled into cylindrical bundles and secured with wire ; a bundle of brushwood used to help make a road foundation on marshy or unstable ground; also to form a barrier against erosion of the bank of, or to accumulate sand, silt etc. in, a watercourse. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Military | Saplings tied into long bundles often used in earthworks construction (fa'-sheen). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack; budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine, fasces, bale; seron, seroon; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft; shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FASCINE |
| English words defined with "FASCINE": Goudron ♦ Sap fagot, Saucisse. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FASCINE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (fascinates, fascine), Portuguese (fascinate). |
Expressions using "FASCINE": fascine mattress ♦ fascine pole. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fascine | 9 |
fascine knife | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FASCINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | حزمة عيدان طويلة. (various references) | |
Danish | faskine (faggot, fascine pole, gabion). (various references) | |
Dutch | fascine (faggot, fascine pole). (various references) | |
Finnish | risunki (faggot, fascine pole), risukimppu (fagot). (various references) | |
French | fascine (fascinates). (various references) | |
German | Faschine (faggot, fascine pole). (various references) | |
Greek | κλαδόπλεγμα (faggot, fascine pole, wattle), κλαδόδεμα (faggot, fascine pole). (various references) | |
Hebrew | א'ו"" (association, bundle, fellowship, group, package, society, sodality, troop). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rőzsemű (fascine work), rőzsegát (fascine dam), cölöpépítmény (fascine dwelling, pier, pile dwelling, piling), ágnyaláb (fascine work). (various references) | |
Italian | fascina (faggot, fagot). (various references) | |
Korean | 나뭇단. (various references) | |
Manx | cuirrag (bundle of osiers, green stalk of corn). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ascinefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | faxina (hurdle). (various references) | |
Russian | свайная постройка (fascine dwelling, pile dwelling, pile-dwelling). (various references) | |
Spanish | fasina (faggot, fascine pole), fascino, fajina (faggot). (various references) | |
Swedish | faskin (faggot, fascine pole). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фашина. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bó c nh để l m cừ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FASCINE": fascines. (additional references) | |
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"FASCINE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aescwine, Faccini, Facine, faciner, Fasanen, fasci, fascile, fascinet, fascion, fasin, fasine, Fassano, fassbinder, Faustine, Focsani, Frascina, Frassino, Fucine, fucini, Iascone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fancies, fiances. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-n-s" | |
-1 letter: casein, facies, fiance, incase. | |
-2 letters: acnes, anise, cafes, cains, canes, cines, faces, fanes, fices, fines, naifs, neifs, saice, scena, since. | |
-3 letters: aces, acne, ains, anes, anis, asci, cafe, cain, cane, cans, case, cine, face, fain, fane, fans, fens, fice, fine, fins, fisc, ices, naif, neif, nice, safe, sain, sane, scan, seif, sice, sine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-n-s" | |
+1 letter: caffeins, faciends, faiences, fanciers, fanciest, fascines, fiancees, finances, unifaces. | |
+2 letters: affiances, bonifaces, caffeines, canfields, carnifies, casefying, defiances, fancifies, fanciness, fascinate, franchise, infancies. | |
+3 letters: affections, archfiends, candlefish, chieftains, cofinances, confiscate, craftiness, facileness, falconries, fascinated, fascinates, feminacies, financiers, fornicates, franchised, franchisee, franchiser, franchises, fricandoes, hawfinches, interfaces, jackknifes, refinances, sanctified, sanctifier, sanctifies, ventifacts. | |
+4 letters: affirmances, affluencies, chaffinches, chiffonades, confidantes, confiscable, confiscated, confiscates, defecations, enfranchise, fanaticizes, fancinesses, farinaceous, fianchettos, finicalness, flagrancies, flippancies, forecasting, fragrancies, franchisees, franchisers, franticness, fricandeaus, magnificoes, misfeasance, prefinances, refractions, resurfacing, sanctifiers. | |
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