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Definition: GLACIS |
GLACISNoun1. A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin). |
Date "GLACIS" was first used: 1672. (references) |
Etymology: Glacis \Gla"cis\, noun. [French expression glacis; -- so named from its smoothness. See Glacier.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Glacis The sloping mass on the outer edge of the covered way in fortification. Immediately without the "ditches" of the place fortified, there is a road of communication all round the fortress (about thirty feet wide), having on its exterior edge a covered mass of earth eight feet high, sloping off gently towards the open country. The road is technically called the covered way, and the sloping mass the glacis. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Military | The area adjacent to the outer perimeter of the ditch, often graded to deflect incoming rounds up and over the parapet of the earthwork. (glah-see'). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The forward armor on a tank is called the glacis plate, and is usually the thickest and strongest armor on the vehicle.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Glacis."
| 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: GLACIS |
| English words defined with "GLACIS": Counterscarf, Coupure, Covered way ♦ Ecoute ♦ Trench cavalier. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GLACIS": Montague profile ♦ standing wave flume, standing-wave flume ♦ throated flume. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GLACIS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Hungarian (glacis). |
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| "GLACIS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GLACIS" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
glacis | 5 |
auberge des glacis | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GLACIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | гласис, полегат склон. (various references) | |
Danish | skrå kant (chamfer, toe offset), skæv kant. (various references) | |
Dutch | glijvlak, glacis. (various references) | |
Finnish | luisu (skidding). (various references) | |
French | glacis, pente douce. (various references) | |
German | Glacis, schiefe Ebene (gradient, inclined plane). (various references) | |
Greek | πρανές (slope, talus). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כרכום (earth mound, rampart). (various references) | |
Hungarian | glacis, vármezõ, vármező, enyhe lejtésű padka. (various references) | |
Italian | scivolo (chute, sashays, slide, slipway). (various references) | |
Manx | cleanfort. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acisglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | talude (embankment, escarpment, frith, ramp, rampart, scarp), rampa (acclivity, agger, ascent, bank, hillside, incline, rise, runway, slope, talus, uprise), escorrega (chute). (various references) | |
Romanian | povârniş (descent, dip, fall, inclination, ramp, scarp, slant, slope, steep), pantã (acclivity, chute, cliff, declension, declivity, descent, dip, downhill, fall, gradient, hade, inclination, incline, ramp, slant, slope, splay, tilt, up). (various references) | |
Russian | гласис. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | blag nagib. (various references) | |
Spanish | rampa de transporte (dray-road, timber slide), plataforma inclinada. (various references) | |
Swedish | svag sluttning (glasis), sned kant. (various references) | |
Turkish | yokuş (acclivity, ascent, bank, declination, descent, dip, downgrade, Hill, incline, pitch, raise, ramp, slope, upgrade), eğimli yüzey (escarpment, incline), bayır (acclivity, ascent, Brae, declivity, Foothill, slope), şev (slope, splay). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | glacir. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GLACIS": glacises. (additional references) | |
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"GLACIS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gacic, Gallacio, Galucci, glac, Glaces, glacia, glackin, glacy, gladiis, glais, glaise, glasis, Glaucia, glaucus, glaxie, ilicis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GLACIS" (pronounced glā"sus) |
| 4 | -ā" s u s | homeostasis. |
| 3 | -s u s | acidosis, amniocentesis, analysis, antithesis, apotheosis, archdiocese, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, axis, catharsis, census, cirrhosis, colossus, consensus, crisis, diagnosis, dialysis, diocese, electrolysis, fibrosis, Genesis, geotaxis, heterosis, hydrolysis, hypnosis, hypothesis, meiosis, metamorphosis, misdiagnosis, morphogenesis, Narcissus, necrosis, nemesis, nephrosis, neurofibromatosis, neurosis, nexus, organogenesis, photosynthesis, phototaxis, plexus, preadolescence, proboscis, prognosis, prosthesis, psoriasis, psychoanalysis, psychokinesis, psychosis, rhesus, sclerosis, symbiosis, synopsis, synthesis, Tarsus, telexes, Texas, thesis, thrombosis, tuberculosis, urinalysis, versus. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-l-s" | |
-1 letter: clags, glias, laics, salic. | |
-2 letters: ails, asci, cigs, clag, gals, glia, lacs, lags, laic, sail, scag, sial, slag. | |
-3 letters: ail, ais, als, cig, cis, gal, gas, lac, lag, las, lis, sac, sag, sal, sic. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, al, as, is, la, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-l-s" | |
+1 letter: garlics, lacings, scaling. | |
+2 letters: callings, carlings, castling, catlings, clashing, clasping, classing, elegiacs, gestical, glaciers, glacises, graciles, gracilis, legacies, scalding, scalping, slacking, solacing, surgical. | |
+3 letters: algicides, analgesic, angelicas, anglicise, anglicism, antalgics, blackings, cagelings, callusing, capsuling, caulkings, causalgia, causalgic, claddings, cleansing, clearings, collagist, coxalgias, coxalgies, flagstick, gallicism, gasolinic, glaciates, guaiacols, lacewings, laicising, logicians, mucilages, nostalgic, oligarchs, rescaling, sacrilege, scabbling, scagliola, scantling, sclaffing, scrawling, shackling, spackling, tacklings, upscaling. | |
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