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Definition: Abatis |
AbatisNoun1. Line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) toward the enemy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abatis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1912. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | ABATIS, n. Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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From 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Abatis."
Synonym: AbatisSynonym: abattis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Defense | Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Abatis |
| English words defined with "abatis": Abatised. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "abatis": Abatis , Abattis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Abatis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (abatis). |
| 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 |
abatis | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "abatis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | grumbull (aggregation, amassment, bank, batch, bevy, bunch, clamp, clump, cluster, collection, congeries, crowd, group, heap, jumble, mass, mob, mountain, pile, pile up, stack, stamp mill). (various references) | |
Arabic | الحظار عائق من الأشجار مقطوعة يسد به الطريق. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | барикада от струпани клони. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鹿'寨 (Abattis). (various references) | |
French | abattis. (various references) | |
German | Baumverhau. (various references) | |
Greek | φραγμόσ δέντρων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mesterséges akadály. (various references) | |
Italian | barricata (barricade). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鹿 , 逆茂木 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さかもぎ, ろくさい. (various references) | |
Korean | 녹채 (Abattis). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abatisay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | abatis. (various references) | |
Romanian | abatizã (abattis). (various references) | |
Russian | засека. (various references) | |
Spanish | tala, abatida, barricada de alambre de púas, barricada con alambre de púas, parapeto de troncos caídos. (various references) | |
Swedish | förhuggning (advance felling, preparatory cutting, preparatory felling). (various references) | |
Turkish | ağaç barikat, barikat (barricade, crush barrier, roadblock). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "abatis": abatises. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-s-t" | |
-1 letter: baits. | |
-2 letters: abas, aits, baas, bait, bast, bats, bias, bits, isba, sati, stab, tabs. | |
-3 letters: aas, aba, abs, ais, ait, baa, bas, bat, bis, bit, its, sab, sat, sib, sit, tab, tas, tis. | |
-4 letters: aa, ab, ai, as, at, ba, bi, is, it, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-s-t" | |
+1 letter: abattis, abstain, basmati. | |
+2 letters: abatises, abstains, airboats, antibias, arbalist, ballista, baptisia, bartisan, basaltic, basmatis, cabalist, habitans, habitats, labiates, sabbatic, sailboat, satiable, satiably, tabanids, taxicabs, zaibatsu. | |
+3 letters: abattises, abattoirs, abdicates, ablations, ablatives, aboiteaus, abstained, abstainer, arbalists, aubretias, aubrietas, bacterias, balladist, ballistae, bangtails, baptisias, baptismal, barbitals, bartisans, bartizans, basipetal, bastinade, bastinado, battalias, bicoastal, boatswain, botanicas, brantails, cabalists, habitants, sabbatics, sailboats, stainable, tailbacks, waistband. | |
+4 letters: abdicators, abominates, abstainers, abstaining, acrobatics, aerobatics, algebraist, anabaptism, antirabies, arbitrages, arbitrates, backstairs, balladists, ballasting, banalities, barratries, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, bastinades, battailous, battalions, bipartisan, blacktails, blatancies, boatswains, botanicals, brachiates, broadtails, cabalistic, calibrates, catabolism, fabricants, fabricates, habituates, insatiable, insatiably, isolatable, lambasting, mistakable, rabbinates, sabbatical, sabotaging, sailboater, salability, subaquatic, tailboards, trainbands, ultrabasic, waistbands. | |
+5 letters: abbreviates, abdications, aberrations, abjurations, abnegations, abominators, abreactions, abrogations, abstracting, abstraction, abstractive, alabastrine, algebraists, ambulations, anabaptisms, antibaryons, arabilities, arbitragers, arbitrators, arborvitaes, atrabilious, bacitracins, bacteremias, baptismally, barbarities, basipetally, bastardised, bastardises, bastardized, bastardizes, bastinadoed, bastinadoes, batrachians, beauticians, bitartrates, blastematic, bodhisattva, brachiators, brainteaser, calibrators, castability, catabolisms, catabolites, catabolizes, cohabitants, erasability, fabricators, habilitates, habitations, inflatables, inhabitants, interabangs, jaboticabas, jackrabbits, outbargains, sabbaticals, sailboaters, sailboating, saltimbocca, satirizable, satisfiable, subnational, subrational, substantial, sustainable, syllabicate, tabulations, tarnishable, trabeations, ultrabasics, washability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 61 74 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... .- - .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b a t i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0061 0074 0069 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356867867585 |
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