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Slit Trench

Definition: Slit Trench

Slit Trench

Noun

1. Narrow trench for shelter in battle.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Slit Trench

DomainDefinition

Military

Short trench for 4-5 men often found in association with rifle pits. (references)

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

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Photo Album: Slit Trench

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Canadian troops in Normandy digging trenches outside their tents, next to sign reading "Old soldiers never die--they dig! and fade away into a slit trench". Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Modern Translation: Slit Trench

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

German

  

splittengraben. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

keskeny lövészárok. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itslay enchtray

   

Russian 

  

щель (areaway, call slot, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure, flaw, gap, hiatus, interstice, notch, peep, rent, rift, slit, slot). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Slit Trench

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: centrist, chitters, christen, citherns, cithrens, citterns, restitch, snitcher, stitcher.

-3 letters: chitter, cistern, cithern, cithers, cithren, cittern, clients, cretins, ethnics, hinters, hitters, lectins, lichens, linters, lithest, litters, relicts, retints, richens, richest, slither, slitter, stencil, sthenic, stinter, stretch, thistle, tilters, tinters, tithers, trisect.

-4 letters: cherts, chiels, chiles, chines, chints, chisel, citers, cither, client, clines, cretin.

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

+2 letters: chitterlings.

 

+5 letters: anticholesterol, ethnohistorical, interscholastic, orchestrational.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Slit Trench


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6C 69 74      54 72 65 6E 63 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101100 01101001 01110100 00100000 01010100 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#32 &#84 &#114 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0069 0074      0054 0072 0065 006E 0063 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

537875862548471806974

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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