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TRENCHING

Definition: TRENCHING

TRENCHING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Trench

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TRENCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)


Specialty Definition: TRENCHING

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

Deep ploughing of the land in preparation for planting a vineyard. Source: European Union. (references)
 Opening furrows between the rows of vines in thewinter in order to facilitate drainage or for irrigation. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: TRENCHING

English words defined with "TRENCHING": Flying machineTo trench at. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TRENCHING": back acter, balic, box-ridgecontouring with plant cuttingshorizontally planted cuttingspoling board, pulaski toolSUPERVISOR, SEWER SYSTEMtie-ridge, trench excavation. (references)

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Commercial Usage: TRENCHING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Tell El-Hesi: Modern Military Trenching and Muslim Cemetery in Field I, Strata I-II (The Joint Archaeological Expedition to Tell El-Hesi, Vol 2) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Trenching and Shoring Training Program (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: TRENCHING

Computer Images:
TRENCHING

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Photo Album: TRENCHING

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Trenching at 8th St RoadHulls GulchBoise FrontFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Unknown.

Cat Trenching 8th St. RoadBoise FrontFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Unknown.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: TRENCHING

"TRENCHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "TRENCHING" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)60%3202,518
Adjective (general or positive)40%2245,945
                    Total100.00%5N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: TRENCHING

Expressions using "TRENCHING": trenching machine trenching spade. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TRENCHING

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

trenching

31

trenching utility

20

trenching equipment

14

trenching machine

12

trenching tool

6

shovel trenching

3

trenching and shoring

3

trenching safety

2

services trenching

2

trenching rock

2

excavation trenching

2

trenching contractor

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TRENCHING

Language Translations for "TRENCHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

槽探. (various references)

   

Danish

  

vandfurepløjning (trench ploughing), udgravning (cutting, digging, excavation, exhumation, to dig away), reolpløjning (trench ploughing), rendegravning (excavation of trenches), pløjning (opening furrows, ploughing, plowing), opfuring (opening, starting), grøftegravning (dipping earth), byggegrube (cutting, excavation), afgravning (excavation, spoil, spoil bank). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

voren trekken, voren maken, uitgraving (cutting, earthwork, excavation, spoil), uitgraven van greppels (dipping earth), insnede, inkassing (embedding, encasing, housing), greppelen (dipping earth), diepspitten (trench ploughing), diepploegen (trench ploughing), diep omploegen (trench ploughing), bouwput (cutting, excavation), begreppelen (drainage by ditches or gutters, opening furrows). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vaotus (opening furrows), vakojen teko (opening furrows), syväkyntö (trench ploughing). (various references)

   

French

  

ruellage, rigolage, ouverture de tranchées, minage (trench ploughing), fouille, excavation, encaissement, défoncement (trench ploughing), défonçage (trench ploughing), creusement de raies, creusement, creusage, abattage par tranchée. (various references)

   

German

  

grabend (digging, fossorial, spading). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σκάψιμο αυλακιών, εκσκαφή κατά φέτες, αυλάκωμα (opening furrows, raised band), διάνοιξη τάφρου (dipping earth). (various references)

   

Italian

  

seasso (trench ploughing), scavo di fossa, scavo di fondazione (cutting, excavation), scavo (dig, digging, excavation, groundwork), scavatura (dipping earth), scavamento (dipping earth), scasso (burglary), sbancamento a trincea, incassamento, attacco con trincea, assolcatura (basin listing, listing, opening furrows). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

トルコ帽 (fez, house trailer, sweat pants, sweat shirt, sweatshirt, tolerance, Tolstoy, toreador, toreador pants, tornado, torso, tortilla, trace, tracer, tracing, tracing paper, trade, trade money, trade show, trade union, trademark, trade-off, trader, trading, trading company, trail bike, trailer, trailer bus, trailer house, train, trainer, training, training camp, training pants, training shoes, training wear, training wizard, tray, tread, trekker, tremolo, trench coat, troubadour, very good). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

トレンチング . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enchingtray

   

Portuguese

  

valado (haha, trench), vala (dike, dyke, fosse, grave, pale, trench, trough), surriba (trench ploughing), saibramento (trench ploughing), saibra (trench ploughing), escavação (dig, digging, jerk, pit, scoop), abertura de sulcos (ploughing), abertura de regos. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

zanjeo (dipping earth), excavación para carreteras, excavación en zanja, excavación en trinchera, excavación de zanjas de plantación, excavación (burrowing, dig, digging, excavation, sinking), desfonde (staving, trench ploughing), desfondamiento (trench ploughing), corte (blade, break, circumcision, concision, court, cutting, drop, edge, failure, hack, haircut, incision, kerf, length, Nick, notch, outage, paring, put down, retinue, scarf, section, snick), asurcar (opening furrows, to ridge). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utgrävning (excavation), uppdragning av planteringsfåror, schaktning (earthwork), dräneringsplöjning (opening furrows), djupbearbetning (trench ploughing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: TRENCHING

Derivations

Words ending with "TRENCHING": entrenching, intrenching, retrenching. (additional references)


Misspellings

"TRENCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: frenching, trenchang, trunking. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TRENCHING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-g-h-i-n-n-r-t"

-1 letter: centring, intrench, retching.

-2 letters: cithern, cithren, etching, henting, renting, ringent, thinner.

-3 letters: cering, cither, cretin, cringe, eching, engirt, enrich, ethnic, ginner, grinch, hinger, hinter, intern, nigher, richen, thrice, tinner, trench.

-4 letters: chert, chine, citer, eight, ethic, genic, girth, grith, hinge, inert, inner, inter, ither, neigh, nicer, niche, night, ninth, niter, nitre, recti, reign, renig.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-g-h-i-n-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: chuntering.

 

+2 letters: christening, entrenching, interchange, intrenching, merchanting, retrenching.

 

+3 letters: christenings, interchanged, interchanger, interchanges, truncheoning.

 

+4 letters: anthropogenic, interchaining, interchangers, interchanging, rechristening, underclothing.

 

+5 letters: countershading, dechlorinating, underclothings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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