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Definition: Trench |
TrenchNoun1. A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth. 2. A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor. 3. Any long ditch cut in the ground. Verb1. Impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains". 2. Fortify by surrounding with trenches; "He trenched his military camp". 3. Cut or carve deeply into; "letters trenched into the stone". 4. Set, plant, or bury in a trench; "trench the fallen soldiers"; "trench the vegetables". 5. Cut a trench in, as for drainage; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields". 6. Dig a trench or trenches; "The National Guardsmen were sent out to trench". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "trench" was first used: sometime around 1395. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | An elongated trough or deep in the ocean floor. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | Trenches are deep, linear zones that form where an oceanic plate sinks (subducts) beneath another plate. (references) |
Military | Earthwork formed by digging a ditch and piling earth into a parapet. (references) |
Mining | A. A long, straight, commonly U-shaped valley or depression between two mountain ranges b. A narrow, steep-sided canyon, gully, or other depression eroded by a stream c. Any long, narrow cut or excavation produced naturally in the Earth's surface by erosion or tectonic movements. Also, a similar feature produced artificially, such as a ditch dug in prospecting for minerals d. An elongated but proportionally narrow depression, with steeply sloping longitudinal borders, one of which (the continental) rises higher than the other (the oceanic). Trenches are the ends of unsymmetrical basins and lie beside the continental border or island chains. Syn:marginal trenc e. A long but narrow depression of the deep-sea floor having relatively steep sides f. A long, narrow, intermontane depression occupied by two or more streams (whether expanded into lakes or not), alternately draining the depression in opposite directions g. A narrow ditch h. In geological exploration, a narrow, shallow ditch cut across a mineral deposit to obtain samples or to observe character. i. A long, narrow excavation in the ground, as a trench dug for the laying of pipes j. A temporary scar in which a conduit is placed and then covered over.CF:ditch. (references) |
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A ditch with water can be used for drainage and irrigation.With or without water it can be used as a barrier, as an alternative for a fence.
A trench is a long narrow ditch.
Types and applications include:
- Military - i.e. for trench warfare
- Geological - oceanic trench, eg Marianas Trench
- Gardening
- Archaeology - referring to an open excavation
- a temporary trench for burying a pipeline, cable, etc.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ditch."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Richard Chenevix Trench (September 9, 1807 - March 28, 1886) was an Anglican archbishop and poet.He was born at Dublin in Ireland (then part of Britain), and went to school at Harrow, and graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1829. In 1830 he visited Spain. While incumbent of Curdridge Chapel near Bishops Waltham in Hampshire, he published (1835) The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems, which was favourably received, and was followed in 1838 by Sabbation, Honor Neale, and other Poems, and in 1842 by Poems from Eastern Sources. These volumes revealed the author as the most gifted of the immediate disciples of Wordsworth, with a warmer colouring and more pronounced ecclesiastical sympathies than the master, and strong affinities to Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keble and Richard Monckton Milnes.
In 1841 he resigned his living to become curate to Samuel Wilberforce, then rector of Alverstoke, and upon Wilberforce's promotion to the deanery of Westminster in 1845 he was presented to the rectory of Itchenstoke. In 1845 and 1846 he preached the Hulsean lecture, and in the former year was made examining chaplain to Wilberforce, now Bishop of Oxford. He was shortly afterwards appointed to a theological chair at King's College, London.
In 1851 he established his fame as a philologist by The Study of Words, originally delivered as lectures to the pupils of the Diocesan Training School, Winchester. His purpose, as stated by himself, was to show that in words, even taken singly, "there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up"--a truth enforced by a number of most apposite illustrations. It was followed by two little volumes of similar character--English Past and Present (1855) and A Select Glossary of English Words (1859). All have gone through numerous editions and have contributed much to promote the historical study of the English tongue. Another great service to English philology was rendered by his paper, read before the Philological Society, "On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries" (1857), which gave the first impulse to the great Oxford New English Dictionary. His advocacy of a revised translation of the New Testament (1858) helped promote another great national project. In i856 he published a valuable essay on Calderon,with a translation of a portion of Life is a Dream in the original metre. In 1841 he had published his Notes on the Parabales of our Lord, and in 1846 his Notes on the Miracles, popular works which are treasuries of erudite and acute illustration.
In 1856 Trench became Dean of Westminster, a position which suited him. Here he instroduced evening nave services. In January 1864 he was advanced to the senior but less suitable post of Archbishop of Dublin. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley had been first choice, but was rejected by the Irish Church, and, according to Bishop Wilberforce's correspondence, Trench's appointment was favoured neither by the prime minister nor the lord-lieutenant. It was, moreover, unpopular in Ireland, and a blow to English literature; yet it turned out to be fortunate. Trench could not prevent the disestablishment of the Irish Church, though he resisted with dignity. But, when the disestablished communion had to be reconstituted under the greatest difficulties, it was important that the occupant of his position should be a man of a liberal and genial spirit.
This was the work of the remainder of Trench's life; it exposed him at times to considerable abuse, but he came to be appreciated, and, when in November 1884 he resigned his archbishopric because of poor health, clergy and laity unanimously recorded their sense of his "wisdom, learning, diligence, and munificence." He had found time for Lectures on Medieval Church History (1878); his poetical works were rearranged and collected in two volumes (last edition, 1885). He died in London, after a lingering illness.
See his Letters and Memorials (2 vols., 1886).
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Richard Chenevix Trench."
Synonyms: TrenchSynonyms: deep (n), oceanic abyss (n), ditch (v), encroach (v), entrench (v), impinge (v). (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. |
Dereliction of Duty | Verb: violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught; encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight, neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape, transgress, fail. |
Furrow | Channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke; moat, fosse, trough, kennel; ravine; (interval); tajo, thank-ye-ma'am. |
Incredulity | The word miscreant, which originally meant simply misbeliever, has now quite another meaning (). See Trench, On the Study of Words, p. |
Insulation, Fire extinction | Backfire, firebreak, trench; aerial water bombardment. |
Nearness | Verb: be near; Adjective: adjoin, hang about, trench on; border upon, verge upon; stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug; huddle; hang upon the skirts of, hover over; burn. |
Transcursion | Encroach, trespass, infringe, trench upon, entrench on, intrench on; strain; stretch a point, strain a point; cross the Rubicon. |
Undueness | Infringe, encroach, trench on, exact; arrogate, arrogate to oneself; give an inch and take an ell; stretch a point, strain a point; usurp, violate, do violence to. |
Vehicle | Tractor, steamshovel, backhoe, fork lift, earth mover, dump truck, bulldozer, grader, caterpillar, trench digger, steamroller; pile driver; crane, wrecking crane. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Suppose the Macedo trench splits open under the ocean (Crack in the World; writing credit: Jon Manchip White) Looked like sort of a big turtle in a trench coat (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird) Say, when will your shop be open again so I can come by and get a new trench coat (Inspector Gadget; writing credit: Nezihe Araz) was invented by a manufacturer of trench coats to keep up sales (A Terrible Beauty; writing credit: R. Wright Campbell; Arthur Roth) It's better than a nasty, dark little trench. (Lawrence of Arabia; writing credit: T.E. Lawrence; Robert Bolt) | |
Lyrics | I'll be waiting there with my trench, my loafs, my hat (Are You That Somebody; performing artist: Aaliyah) When the daylight strikes, I hide in my trench and die (Warheart; performing artist: Children) For I marched to the battles of the German trench (I Ain't Marching Anymore; performing artist: Phil Ochs) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Digging a Trench (1899) The Trench (2002) | |
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 | A German map of the seafloor in the equatorial western Pacific. Uses the term "graben" for modern day "trench." This map was included in: "Das Deutsche Kolonialreich," by Hans Meyer, 1909. Vol II, p. 496. Library Call Number: Cfd M612 d. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Profiles of the Aleutian Trench compiled by Harold W. Murray of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and published in the "Bulletin of the Geological Society of America," Vol. 56, p. 771. Soundings for making these profiles were acquired between 1925 and 1939 by following systematic tracklines from the U. S. West Coast to the Aleutians for hydrographic surveying operations. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Experimental station for testing trench wheel, workers examining and repairing wire entaglements;1918;{35.200/44}. |  | U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No. 5, Auteuil, France. : Studying bacteria of Trench Fever diseases and experimenting with new antiseptic solutions in the laboratory. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Construction of trench incinerator drill]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Waterline in trench in construction of a housing project, Linda Vista, San Diego, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Till my regiment is mustered out" - Funston's reply when asked how long he could hold a captured trench. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Petersburg, Va. Dead Confederate soldier, in trench beyond a section of chevaux-de-frise. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Loading boxes with silage from trench silo near Weslaco, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Indian troops in East Africa. The 4/16 Punjabis in action with trench morters, south of Benghsi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Trench and sky" by David Sandy Commentary: "Shot from volcano national park. contact if higher res need tradingdavid@yahoo.com. or comments or use appreciated." |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The turtle entered a dust road and jerked itself along, drawing a wavy shallow trench in the dust with its shell |
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Economic History | Bulgaria | The Bulgarian market is heavily dominated by European producers such as Siemens, ABB, Trench, Schneider, and Alstom. (references) |
Cambodia | The Vietnamese concentrated on consolidating their gains during the 1985-86 dry season, including an attempt to seal guerrilla infiltration routes into the country by forcing Cambodian laborers to construct trench and wire fence obstacles and minefields along virtually the entire Thai-Cambodian border. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | Five workers were injured and one died in Abu Dhabi after being trapped in sand for 2 hours when a trench collapsed at a construction site. (references) |
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| "Trench" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.00% of the time. "Trench" is used about 549 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) | 96% | 527 | 11,606 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.91% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.55% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.55% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 549 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "trench" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Trench | Last name | 170 | 41,816 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "trench": approach trench ♦ atacama Trench ♦ Bougainville Trench ♦ communication trench ♦ dig a trench ♦ drainage trench ♦ fire trench ♦ Hellenic Arc and Trench ♦ Japan Trench ♦ lined trench ♦ see Trench ♦ slit trench ♦ To trench at ♦ Trench cavalier ♦ trench coat ♦ trench digging ♦ trench down ♦ trench excavator ♦ Trench Fever ♦ trench foot ♦ trench knife ♦ trench mortar ♦ trench mouth ♦ trench on ♦ Trench plough ♦ trench ploughing ♦ Trench plow ♦ trench upon ♦ trench warfare. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "trench": trench-bomb, trench-built, trench-coat, trench-filling, Trench-plough, Trench-plow, trench-strafing, trench-systems, trench-warfare. | |
Ending with "trench": arc-trench, Chenevix-trench, slit-trench. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
trench coat | 384 | trench shoring | 17 |
trench | 140 | ocean trench | 17 |
trench warfare | 132 | black trench coat | 16 |
mariana trench | 114 | grate trench | 15 |
leather trench coat | 112 | in life trench | 15 |
trench mouth | 102 | trench art | 13 |
trench drain | 96 | picture trench warfare | 12 |
coat matrix trench | 65 | trench safety | 12 |
marianas trench | 48 | burberry trench coat | 12 |
foot trench | 34 | coat neo trench | 12 |
trench coat mafia | 32 | roller trench | 12 |
trench box | 25 | womens trench coat | 11 |
world war 1 trench | 24 | digging trench | 11 |
man trench coat | 20 | drain system trench | 11 |
trench digger | 19 | trench gun | 11 |
trench war | 19 | trench warfare world war 1 | 10 |
trench knife | 19 | french trench | 10 |
coat gothic trench | 17 | lighter trench | 9 |
trench rescue | 17 | coat trench white | 9 |
coat matrix style trench | 17 | trench picture | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "trench"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vazhdë (furrow, rail, rut, signs, trace, track, trail), llogore (ditch, entrenchment, sap), kanal (aqueduct, canal, chamfer, channel, conduit, cut, ditch, drain, duct, excavation, flute, Fosse, gully, gut, gutter, Lade, program, programme, rabbet, runway, sewer, tube, watercourse), hendeklidhje, hendek (channel, chasm, dike, ditch, Fosse, gap, gutter, kerb, moat). (various references) | |
Arabic | حفر خندقا (ditch, sap), حمى بخندق, حصن (arm, bastion, beef up, bulwark, castle, chateau, citadel, entrench, fort, fortification, fortify, fortress, hold, immunize, redoubt, stronghold, tower), خندقه, خندق (chase, dike, ditch, dyke, entrench, escarpment, moat, retrench), إعتصم (adhere, cling, hang, keep, maintain). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ров (delve, dike, ditch, excavation, pit), риголвам, траншея, копая окопи (sap), канавка (ditch, gullet, gully, gutter, kennel, runnel, wayside), канал (aqueduct, canal, channel, cut, ditch, duct, gutter, mortise, passage, port, rabbet, race, scour, sewer, vas, vessel), гранича с (back, border on, join, skirt, touch on, touch upon, verge on), окопавам (earth up, hoe), окоп (ditch, entrenchment, sconce), просека (cutting, vista), прорязвам, изкоп (earthwork, pit). (various references) | |
Chinese | 沟槽, 濠 , 渠溝 , 壕 (air-raid shelter). (various references) | |
Czech | zákop (dugout, entrenchment), vykopat příkop, příkop (cutting, dike, ditch, dyke), žlábkovat (rabbet, rifle). (various references) | |
Danish | rende (apron, channel, chute, cutting, diversion cut, drain, duct, furrow, glass receiver, grip, groove, gut, gutter, lead, rill, scoop, sulcus, tin, tray, tray bar, trough), grav (berth, canyon, deep, dredged berth, tomb), fure (channel, duct, furrow, groove, ploughed furrow, rill, sulcus), draeningsgroeft (drainage channel). (various references) | |
Dutch | loopgraaf. (various references) | |
Esperanto | tranĉeo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | skotgrøv. (various references) | |
Farsi | چال (Cavern), کندن (Cutout, Dig, Gouge, Gully, Mine, Peel, Pick, Pluck, Pug, Pull, Rend, Scoop), گودال (Cavern, Cavity, Grave, Hole, Pit, Puddle, Sinus, Swag, Vesicle), سنگر (Blind, Citadel, Fort, Parapet, Stronghold), خندق زدن , خندق (Ditch, Graft, Moat, Sike, Trig), جان پناه (Parapet, Shelter, Turret), استحکامات خندقی , شیارطولانی . (various references) | |
Finnish | ränni (drainpipe, water spout), oja (ditch, drain), kouru (channel, gutter, spout), kastelukanava (catch feeder, channel, duct, irrigation canal, irrigation canals, irrigation channel, rill), kanava (canal, channel, meatus), juoksuhauta, hautavajoama (fault trough, graben, rift valley, sunken block, trough), hauta (grave, tomb). (various references) | |
French | tranchée. (various references) | |
German | Graben (burrow, canal, channel, cut, cutting, dig, ditch, engrave, excavation, fosse, grub, gutter, hole, mine, moat, pit, pole, prospect, rift, scoop out, spade, to burrow, to dig, to dig (dug, to sink, to trench, water jump), Schützengraben (dugout). (various references) | |
Greek | χαράκωμα (foxhole, intrenchment), χαντάκι (ditch, furrow, gully). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מחפורת (dugout, mine, sap, shaft), תעלת מגן (moat), פיר (hole, pit, shaft), חפירה (burrow, dig, digging, ditch, excavation, sap, tunnel), חפרה (entrenchment). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lövészárok (ditch, dug-out, infantry entrenchment, rifle-pit), árok (chase, cut, delf, delft, dike, ditch, duct, dyke, escarp, foss, fosse, furrow, groove, pit), nyiladék, lecsapoló árok (drainage ditch), futóárok (approach trench, approach works, communication trench, sap), folyóka (bindweed, ditch, watercourse, water-course). (various references) | |
Indonesian | parit (ditch, entrenchment, fosse, rabbet, sap). (various references) | |
Italian | trincea (redoubt), fossa (ditch, Fosse, grave, hole, moat, pit, scoop). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 壕 (air-raid shelter, dugout), 塹壕 (dugout). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ざんごう (dugout), ごう (a little, actions committed in a former life, air-raid shelter, be proud, Buddhist karma, dugout, fine feathers, go, issue, long ages, moat, number, threat, writing brush). (various references) | |
Korean | 트렌치. (various references) | |
Manx | trensh, lhen, clashal, clash (channel, cleft, gorge, groove, hollow, open furrow, race, rubbish tip, vale). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enchtray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trincheira (ditch, foxhole), vala (dike, dyke, fosse, grave, pale, trough), rego (drain, furrow, gully, race, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Romanian | tranşee (approaches, chase, cut, cutting, entrenchment, Fosse, gully, sap, sconce), sãpa (burrow, cave, cut, delve, dig, drive, engraft, engrave, excavate, grave, hoe, hole, hollow, inscribe, lift, mine, pick, sink, spud, undermine), rigolã (channel, ditch, drain, gully, gutter), şanţ (channel, chase, dike, ditch, flute, Fosse, groove, gully, gutter, moat, notch, rut). (various references) | |
Russian | ров (dike, ditch, moat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rov (ditch, moat, sap), ožiljak (mark, scar), jarak (ditch, rhine), šanac (moat). (various references) | |
Spanish | trinchera (entrenchment). (various references) | |
Swedish | skyttegrav (entrenchment), löpgrav (sap), dike (dike, ditch, dyke, gully). (various references) | |
Turkish | suyolu (canal, channel, conduit, culvert, ditch, eaves, flume, gully, gully drain, gutter, offtake, thoroughfare, watercourse), siper kazmak (dig a trench, dig in, entrench, intrench), siper (aegis, barricade, bulwark, casemate, dike, dyke, entrenchment, foxhole, outwork, parapet, rampart, screen, shelter, shield, splasher), kazmak (cave, cave in, dig, disinter, excavate, grub, hole, hollow, hollow out, mine, pick, pick up, sink, spud), hendek kazmak (ditch), hendek (dike, ditch, Fosse, moat), bellemek (dig, fork, get into a groove, learn by heart, memorize), çukur (cavity, concave, deep set, dimple, dip, excavation, gully, gully drain, gutter, hole, hollow, indent, pit, scoop, sink, sunk). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рів (canal, dike, ditch, moat, thorough), рити (cave, delve, dig, gopher, mole, shovel), шурф (delve), окоп (entrenchment), прорізувати. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hầm (funk-hole). (various references) | |
Welsh | ffosi (ditch), ffos (ditch). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alvei, alveo, alveos, alveum, alveus, fossa, fossae, fossam, fossas, fossis, truncare. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | trenche. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 19, Verse 43 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oti hxousin hmerai epi se kai peribalousin oi ecqroi sou caraka soi kai perikuklwsousin se kai sunexousin se pantoqen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quia venient dies in te et circumdabunt te inimici tui vallo et circumdabunt te et coangustabunt te undique |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Forþam ðe þa dagas to ðe cumað: and þine fynd þe betrymiað. and behabbað þe: and genyrwað þe æghwanun: |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For daies schulen come into thee, and thin enemyes schulen enuyroune thee `with pale, and schulen enuyroune thee, and `thei schulen make thee streyt on alle sydis; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For the dayes shall come vpo the that thy enemys shall cast a banke aboute the and copasse the rounde and kepe the in on every syde |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For the days shall come upon thee, that thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and encompass thee, and keep thee in on every side, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side, |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 19, Verse 43 |
| Cebuano | Kay ikaw pagahiabtan ra sa mga adlaw nga ang imong mga kaaway magapakural ug yuta libut kanimo, ug ikaw pagalikusan ug pagapiiton sa tanang dapit, |
| Croatian | Ali sada je sakriveno tvojim oèima. Doæi æe dani na tebe kad æe te neprijatelji tvoji opkoliti opkopom, okružit æe te i pritijesniti odasvud. |
| Danish | Thi der skal komme Dage over dig, da dine Fjender skulle kaste en Vold op omkring dig og omringe dig og trænge dig alle Vegne fra; |
| Dutch | Want er zullen dagen over u komen, dat uw vijanden een begraving rondom u zullen opwerpen, en zullen u omsingelen, en u van alle zijden benauwen; |
| Finnish | Sillä sinulle tulevat ne päivät, jolloin sinun vihollisesi sinut vallilla saartavat ja piirittävät sinut ja ahdistavat sinua joka puolelta; |
| German | Denn es wird die Zeit über dich kommen, daß deine Feinde werden um dich und deine Kinder mit dir eine Wagenburg schlagen, dich belagern und an allen Orten ängsten; |
| Hungarian | Mert jõnek reád napok, mikor a te ellenségeid te körülted palánkot építenek, és körülvesznek téged, és mindenfelõl megszorítanak téged. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Engkau akan mengalami suatu masa, di mana musuhmu membuat rintangan-rintangan di sekelilingmu; mereka akan mengepungmu dan mendesakmu dari segala sudut. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena harinya akan datang atasmu, yang segala musuhmu berkubu sekeliling engkau, serta mengepung engkau dan mengimpit daripada segala pihak, |
| Italian | Giorni verranno per te in cui i tuoi nemici ti cingeranno di trincee, ti circonderanno e ti stringeranno da ogni parte; |
| Maori | Tera hoki e tae mai nga ra ki a koe, e hanga ai e ou hoariri he parepare mou a taka noa, a ka karapotia koe, ka kopania hoki i nga taha katoa. |
| Norwegian | For de dager skal komme over dig da dine fiender skal kaste en voll op om dig og kringsette dig og trenge dig fra alle sider, |
| Portuguese | Porque dias virão sobre ti em que os teus inimigos te cercarão de trincheiras, e te sitiarão, e te apertarão de todos os lados, |
| Rumanian | Vor veni peste tine zile, cknd vrqjmawii tqi te vor knconjura cu wanyuri, te vor kmpresura, wi te vor strknge din toate pqryile: |
| Russian | ЙВП РТЙДХФ ОБ ФЕВС ДОЙ, ЛПЗДБ ЧТБЗЙ ФЧПЙ ПВМПЦБФ ФЕВС ПЛПРБНЙ Й ПЛТХЦБФ ФЕВС, Й УФЕУОСФ ФЕВС ПФПЧУАДХ, |
| Shuar | Kame ti itiurchat tsawant jeartamtatrume. Atumí nemasri nunkajai aa-tanishan tanishmarar téntatramkattarme. Mesetan najatramattarme, tura aatusha junisha mash árenmaktatrume. |
| Spanish | Porque vendrán sobre ti días en que tus enemigos te rodearán con baluarte y te pondrán sitio, y por todos lados te apretarán. |
| Swahili | Maana siku zaja ambapo adui zako watakuzungushia maboma, watakuzingira na kukusonga pande zote. |
| Swedish | Ty den tid skall komma över dig, då dina fiender skola omgiva dig med belägringsvall och innesluta dig och tränga dig på alla sidor. |
| Uma | Rata mpai' tempo-na, bali' -ni mpanga'ei ngata-ni, ratipuhi ntololikia hante wala, duu' -na uma-pi ria ohea metibo'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "trench": trenchancies, trenchancy, trenchant, trenchantly, trenched, trencher, trencherman, trenchermen, trenchers, trenches, trenching. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "trench": entrench, intrench, retrench. (additional references) | |
Words containing "trench": entrenched, entrenches, entrenching, entrenchment, entrenchments, intrenched, intrenches, intrenching, retrenched, retrenches, retrenching, retrenchment, retrenchments. (additional references) | |
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"Trench" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: frynych, Rench, Rensch, tranc, tranch, tranche, transh, trence, trenche, trenk, Trepca, Tresch, tretch, Triandha, trich, Trinci, tronc, Tronoh, truch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "trench" (pronounced tre"nkh) |
| 5 | t r e" n kh | entrench, retrench. |
| 4 | -r e" n kh | drench, french, wrench. |
| 3 | -e" n kh | bench, clench, quench, stench, tench. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: chert, retch, tench. | |
-2 letters: cent, etch, hent, hern, rent, tern, then. | |
-3 letters: ern, eth, hen, her, het, net, nth, rec, ret, ten, the. | |
-4 letters: eh, en, er, et, he, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: chanter, chunter, cithern, cithren, notcher, tranche. | |
+2 letters: anchoret, chanters, chaunter, christen, chunters, citherns, cithrens, coherent, entrench, ethnarch, intrench, merchant, notchers, pentarch, retching, retrench, ruthenic, snatcher, snitcher, stancher, tranches, trenched, trencher, trenches. | |
+3 letters: anchorets, anchorite, antechoir, anthraces, branchlet, chantries, chastener, chaunters, chintzier, chondrite, christens, chuntered, enchanter, entrechat, ethnarchs, hectoring, merchants, nephritic, nephrotic, parchment, pentarchs, pentarchy, phrenetic, snatchers, snatchier, snitchers, sphincter, stanchers, stauncher, stenchier, thickener, threnodic, tochering, trenchant, trenchers, trenching, trichinae, truncheon, uncharted. | |
| 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. | |
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