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Definition: TRENCHING |
TRENCHINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Trench |
Date "TRENCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: TRENCHING |
| English words defined with "TRENCHING": Flying machine ♦ To trench at. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TRENCHING": back acter, balic, box-ridge ♦ contouring with plant cuttings ♦ horizontally planted cuttings ♦ poling board, pulaski tool ♦ SUPERVISOR, SEWER SYSTEM ♦ tie-ridge, trench excavation. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "TRENCHING": trenching machine ♦ trenching spade. 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 |
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. | |
| 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 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) 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) utgrävning (excavation), uppdragning av planteringsfåror, schaktning (earthwork), dräneringsplöjning (opening furrows), djupbearbetning (trench ploughing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "TRENCHING": entrenching, intrenching, retrenching. (additional references) | |
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"TRENCHING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: frenching, trenchang, trunking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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