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Definition: Foxhole |
FoxholeNoun1. A small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "foxhole" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
Synonym: FoxholeSynonym: fox hole (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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Because they knew that the man in the foxhole next to them would be the best. (Band of Brothers; writing credit: Stephen Ambrose; Erik Jendresen) | |
Clever | There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Foxhole in Cairo (1961) | |
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| "Foxhole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Foxhole" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
foxhole radio | 25 |
foxhole | 24 |
foxhole paintball | 5 |
denver foxhole | 4 |
foxhole make radio | 3 |
tale from the foxhole | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "foxhole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | strofull (burrow, den, hideout, hole, lair, mew, nest, tunnel, Warren). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лисича дупка (fox earth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 避彈坑 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | lišèí doupì (fox earth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schützenloch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προφυλακτικόσ λάκκοσ στρατιώτη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rókalyuk (burrow, fox earth, fox's earth, fox's hole), fedezék (blindage, booby-hutch, cover, dugout, dug-out, entrenchment, shelter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | buca (gap, hiatus, hole, hollow, pit, pothole, space). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 蛸壼 (octopus pot), 蛸壷 (octopus pot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | た"つぼ (octopus pot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oxholefay digital (digital, digitalis, foxglove). (various references) лисья нора (fox earth, kennel). (various references) streljački zaklon. (various references) madriguera de zorro (fox's den). (various references) skyttevärn (fox earth, parapet). (various references) tilki ini (fox earth), siper (aegis, barricade, bulwark, casemate, dike, dyke, entrenchment, outwork, parapet, rampart, screen, shelter, shield, splasher, trench). (various references) лисяча нора (fox earth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "foxhole": foxholes. (additional references) | |
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"Foxhole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fochole. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "foxhole" (pronounced fÄ"kshō'l) |
| 3 | -h ō' l | buttonhole, cubbyhole, keyhole, loophole, manhole, pigeonhole, pinhole, posthole, pothole, sinkhole. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-h-l-o-o-x" | |
-3 letters: flex, floe, fool, helo, hole, hoof, loof, oleo. | |
-4 letters: elf, feh, foe, foh, fox, hex, hoe, lex, loo, lox, oho, ole, ooh, oxo. | |
-5 letters: ef, eh, el, ex, he, ho, lo, oe, of, oh, ox. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-h-l-o-o-x" | |
+1 letter: foxholes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 6F 78 68 6F 6C 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. --- -..- .... --- .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101111 01111000 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F o x h o l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 006F 0078 0068 006F 006C 0065 |
| 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)40819074817871 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | kinez, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , chinês, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, чешки, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japonez, японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japonský, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | japonez, японски език, японци, японски, 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , japonský, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, японский, японец, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, japansk, Japonca, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turecký, tureètina, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | 乌克兰 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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