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Definition: Ditch |
DitchNoun1. A long narrow excavation in the earth. 2. Any small natural waterway. Verb1. Forsake; "ditch a lover". 2. Throw away (slang); "Chuck these old notes". 3. Make an emergency landing on water. 4. Crash or crash-land; "ditch a car"; "ditch a plane". 5. Cut a trench in, as for drainage; "ditch the land to drain it"; "trench the fields". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ditch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Ditch \Ditch\, noun; plural Ditches. [Old English dich, orig. the same word as dik. See Dike.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | An open trench in the ground for the purpose of receiving and conducting water. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Ditch : an open trench in the ground for the purpose of receiving and conducting water. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of falling in a ditch, denotes degradation and personal loss; but if you jump over it, you will live down any suspicion of wrong-doing. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Military | Excavation from which earth or "spoil" is removed to form a parapet. If filled with water, the ditch might be referred to as a moat. All entrenchments consist of a ditch and parapet. The parapet is a mound built up from the excavated earth. (references) |
| Excavation associated with the parapet, can be in front or rear of parapet, often called a moat when in front of the parapet. (references) | |
Mining | A. A drainage course in a mine b. An artificial channel to convey water for use in mining. CF:flume c. The drainage gutter along gangways and openings in anthracite mines. d. In rotary drilling, a trough carrying mud to a screen e. The artificial course or trough in which the drill circulation fluid is conducted from the collar of the borehole to the sump. To dump and discard contents of a bailer, without taking a sample, into a ditch leading away from the collar of a borehole. Syn:canal; chute; ditch. CF:tren. (references) |
Public Administration | A groove correctly proportioned to act as a choke. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A ditch from which water is drawn on to the irrigation land. It may form part of the supply channel. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ditch."
Synonyms: DitchSynonyms: chuck (v), trench (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: guttered (mining). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conduit | Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks. |
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. |
Dullness | Adjective: dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust; unfunny, unlively, logy; unimaginative; insulse; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless; "weary stale flat and unprofitable". |
Furrow | Channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke; moat, fosse, trough, kennel; ravine; (interval); tajo, thank-ye-ma'am. |
Gulf Lake | Lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well; standing water, dead water, sheet of water; fish pond, mill pond; ditch, dike, dyke, dam; reservoir. (store); alberca, barachois, hog wallow. |
Inclosure | Dike, dyke, ditch, fosse, moat. |
Perseverance | Verb: persevere, persist; hold on, hold out; die in the last ditch, be in at the death; stick to, cling to, adhere to; stick to one's text, keep on; keep to one's course, keep to one's ground, maintain one's course, maintain one's ground; go all lengths, go through fire and water; bear up, keep up, hold up; plod; stick to work; (work); continue; follow up; die in harness, die at one's post. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Then after about 15 minutes, you're spit out into a ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Harry, ditch the bitch (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël) Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis) That ditch is Boss Kean's ditch (Cool Hand Luke; writing credit: Donn Pearce) Hey. Where is he, where's Richard? Did you ditch him (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | It's getting colder in this ditch where I lie (This Time Around; performing artist: Hanson) He put it in the ditch (RAISED ON ROBBERY; performing artist: Joni Mitchell) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Across the Ditch (1998) | |
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 | Domestic species are those that breed close to human habitation. This street-side drainage ditch contains the larvae of Culex quinquefasciatus. Credit: CDC. |  | Worker sprays ditch to kill any mosquito larvae that might be present, Miami, Florida. Spray truck. Credit: CDC. |
 | Station Post emulating the "Leaning Tower of Pisa" Leg settled badly in vicinity of ditch Tower was rebuilt with one leg placed in center of road. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A distant view of the specialized ditch digger at work. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Local children stand in the low marsh area adjacent to the pre-restored ditch of a headwater stream. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Tile outlet into drainage ditch in central Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Wind-blown soil clogs a road ditch in central Iowa. Credit: Unknown. |  | Irrigation field ditch. Credit: Martin Pena. |
 | Joe Ross in the historic China Mining Ditch. Credit: Joe Ross. |  | Rogue River - Ditch Creek/Battle Bar wild section. Jet Boat. Credit: Martin Hudson. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Henry David Thoreau | What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. |
Lord Chesterfield | The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch." |
The Bible | If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | He raised his hands in some excitement as he said this, and instantly rolled out of the saddle, and fell headlong into a deep ditch. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of ditch, which could not possibly have been suspected by a distant observer |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It was a mean thing to do, to shoulder him into the square ditch, they were saying |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And in the night one family camps in a ditch and another family pulls in and the tents come out. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Various water saving techniques are employed on only about 10 percent of surface-irrigated land using land leveling, small ditch or furrow irrigation, canal and ditch leakage prevention, and closed conduit water transportation. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Burma | For example, according to SHRF, since July 50 to 60 persons in Nam-Zarng township have been forced by SPDC troops to dig approximately one mile long irrigation ditch through a stretch of rice fields of the local farmers. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The existence of ghouls has been disputed by that class of controversialists who are more concerned to deprive the world of comforting beliefs than to give it anything good in their place. In 1640 Father Secchi saw one in a cemetery near Florence and frightened it away with the sign of the cross. He describes it as gifted with many heads an an uncommon allowance of limbs, and he saw it in more than one place at a time. The good man was coming away from dinner at the time and explains that if he had not been "heavy with eating" he would have seized the demon at all hazards. Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond. (He appears to think that so distinguished a criminal should have been ducked in a tank of rosewater.) The water turned at once to blood "and so contynues unto ys daye." The pond has since been bled with a ditch. As late as the beginning of the fourteenth century a ghoul was cornered in the crypt of the cathedral at Amiens and the whole population surrounded the place. Twenty armed men with a priest at their head, bearing a crucifix, entered and captured the ghoul, which, thinking to escape by the stratagem, had transformed itself to the semblance of a well known citizen, but was nevertheless hanged, drawn and quartered in the midst of hideous popular orgies. The citizen whose shape the demon had assumed was so affected by the sinister occurrence that he never again showed himself in Amiens and his fate remains a mystery. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ditch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.47% of the time. "Ditch" is used about 591 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) | 85.47% | 505 | 11,960 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 11.82% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.03% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.68% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 591 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ditch" 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 |
| Ditch | Last name | 1,000 | 17,382 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "ditch". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Saul | N/A | Biblical | Ditch |
| Shuah | N/A | Biblical | Ditch |
| Suah | N/A | Biblical | Ditch |
| Digby | Male | English | A ditch |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "ditch": contour ditch irrigation ♦ cross ditch ♦ die in the last ditch ♦ ditch a plane ♦ ditch digger ♦ ditch digging ♦ ditch fern ♦ ditch reed ♦ ditch smb. ♦ ditch spade ♦ Ditch stonecrop ♦ ditch water ♦ drainage ditch ♦ irrigation ditch ♦ last ditch ♦ leap a horse across a ditch ♦ lined ditch ♦ the last ditch ♦ till the last ditch ♦ To die in the last ditch ♦ to ditch. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ditch": ditch-and-bund, ditch-bank, ditch-delivered, ditch-lip. | |
Ending with "ditch": castle-ditch, cross-ditch, drain-ditch, feed-ditch, last-ditch. | |
Containing "ditch": last-ditch stand. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "ditch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | sloot (hole, pit). (various references) | |
Albanian | vijë (gully, line, range, rill, rivulet, rut, set, streak, stria, track), vadë (channel), ul avionin mbi ujë, trap (booby, cockeyed, Dick, Dong, dope, duffer, dumbbell, ferry, float, moron, pontoon, prick, prune, raft, sap, sap-head, snare), llogore (entrenchment, sap, trench), lë në baltë (fail, leave in the lurch, let down), kanal (aqueduct, canal, chamfer, channel, conduit, cut, drain, duct, excavation, flute, Fosse, gully, gut, gutter, Lade, program, programme, rabbet, runway, sewer, trench, tube, watercourse), heq qafe (close out, despatch, disembarrass, dispatch, dispense with, dispose of, doff, dump, make away with oneself, put off), hendek (channel, chasm, dike, Fosse, gap, gutter, kerb, moat, trench), hedh makinën në hendek, hap kanal (canalize, chamfer, groove), gropos (Bury, dig in, dig into, entomb, inter), braktis avionin, bëj kanale. (various references) | |
Arabic | منخر, مصرف (declensional, drain, drainage, inflective, outlet, vent), قناة (aqueduct, canal, channel, chase, conduit, cut, duct, gutter, passage, path, pipe, rut, sluiceway, spile, trough, trunk, tube, water course, waterway), حفر خندقا (sap, trench), حفر (bore, burrow, burrowing, dig, digging, digging in, drill, drilling, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, grave, hew, inscribe, make a hole in, pick up, pit, plough, rut, scrape, sink), حط على الماء, تخلص من (clear off, disembarrass, disengage, disposal, dispose of, do dispose of, doff, drown, elimination, escape, exorcise, exorcize, free, get out of, get rid of, jettison, liquidate, mop up, outgrow, polish up, put off, rid, scrap, sell up, shake, shake off, slough, turn, turn off, weed, weed out, work off), تجنب (avert, avoid, avoidance, bypass, duck, eschew, eschewal, evade, evasion, fence, fight shy of, flee, get round, give a wide berth, hide, miss, obviate, outrun, parry, put off, save, shirk, shuffle, shun, shy, sidestep, steer clear of, waive), ترك (break, cast aside, discontinue, drop, drop it, drop out, lay aside, leave, leave about, let go, neglect, peg, quit, rap, resign, resignation, sign away, strand, suffer, unhand), طوق بخنذق, خندق (chase, dike, dyke, entrench, escarpment, moat, retrench, trench). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ров (delve, dike, excavation, pit, trench), хвърлям в канавката, копая ров, канавка (gullet, gully, gutter, kennel, runnel, trench, wayside), канал (aqueduct, canal, channel, cut, duct, gutter, mortise, passage, port, rabbet, race, scour, sewer, trench, vas, vessel), отървавам се от (dispose of, get rid of, put off, railroad, shake oneself free, shed, ship off, unload), окоп (entrenchment, sconce, trench), изкарвам от релсите. (various references) | |
Chinese | 瀆 (trouble), 垄沟 (Ditches), 溝 (gutter), (big, drain, stream or canal). (various references) | |
Czech | zmařit (baffle, crush, destroy, foil, frustrate, scotch, stave off, thwart, upset), vykolejit (be derailed, derail), udìlat příkop, stoka (drain, gutter, sewer, sink), příkop (cutting, dike, dyke, trench), kanál (canal, channel, drain, gutter, sink, sluice way, station). (various references) | |
Danish | kanal (canal, channel), groeft (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, drainage ditch), grøft (cutting), afvandingsgroeft (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, drainage ditch), afskaerende groeft (catchwater drain, cut-off ditch, drainage ditch). (various references) | |
Dutch | groef (furrow, hole, pit, slot, wrinkle), sloot (hole, pit), kuil (cave, cavity, hole, pit, pole), groeve (grave, hole, pit, tomb), greppel (hole, pit), gracht (canal, channel, hole, pit). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fosaĵo (hole, pit). (various references) | |
Farsi | نهراب , گودال کندن , حفره (Cavern, Cavity, Cell, Dale, Delve, Hole, Lacuna, Pit, Pothole, Sinus, Socket, Ventricle), خندق (Graft, Moat, Sike, Trench, Trig), راه اب (Gully, Lead). (various references) | |
Finnish | ojittaa (drain), oja (drain). (various references) | |
French | fossé (dike). (various references) | |
Frisian | dobbe (cave, cavity, hole, pit). (various references) | |
German | graben (burrow, canal, channel, cut, cutting, dig, 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, trench, water jump), straßengraben, Wassergraben (moat, water jump). (various references) | |
Greek | χαντάκι (furrow, gully, trench). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תעלית, תעל" (aqueduct, canal, channel, conduit, culvert, gutter, sewer, water course), ערוץ (bus, channel, cleft, gorge, gulch, gully, ravine), חתיר" (digging, effort, sabotage, subversion, undermining), חפיר" (burrow, dig, digging, excavation, sap, trench, tunnel), חריץ (crack, crevice, fissure, flute, fluting, groove, jag, notch, rut, score, slit, slot), בצע" (shallow water), צ ור (canal, channel, duct, hose, jet, pipe, spout, tube). (various references) | |
Hungarian | árok (chase, cut, delf, delft, dike, duct, dyke, escarp, foss, fosse, furrow, groove, pit, trench), vizesárok (gutter, open ditch), lövészárok (dug-out, infantry entrenchment, rifle-pit, trench), folyóka (bindweed, trench, watercourse, water-course), csatorna (aqueduct, canal, channel, conduit, course, delf, delft, drain, duct, flume, furrow, gutter, tubule, watercourse). (various references) | |
Indonesian | parit (entrenchment, fosse, rabbet, sap, trench), bedeng (barrack, flowerbed, shed), bandar (croupier, dock, duct, harbour, port, trading-town, water course). (various references) | |
Italian | fossato (Fosse, moat). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 掘割 (canal, waterway), 溝 (canal, sewer), 溝 2 (drain, gap, gutter), 溝 1 (drain, gap, gutter), 溝 (10^38, drain, gap, gutter, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion), 下水 (drainage, gutter, sewage, sewerage), 側溝 (gutter), 割り (canal, waterway), 割 (canal, waterway). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そっ"う (gutter, immediate effect, immediately carrying out, speedy effect, swift attack), どぶ (drain, gap, gutter), ほりわり (canal, waterway), "うきょ (canal, death, demise, elevation, Imperial Palace, official government permission, opposition, resistance, sewer), 'すい (drainage, gutter, sewage, sewerage), みぞ (drain, gap, gutter, right hand side). (various references) | |
Korean | 도랑 (Ditches). (various references) | |
Manx | jeeigey (ditching, drain, draining, exhaust, hollow, tilt), faagail (abandon, bequeath, depart, descend, disembark, flitting, forsake, give up, hand down, keep on, leave, leaving, maroon, outgoing, quit, quitting, relinquish, retire, season; vacating, seasoning, strand, throw over), cur 'sy cheayn. (various references) | |
Norwegian | grøft. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itchday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vala (dike, dyke, fosse, grave, pale, trough). (various references) | |
Romanian | se opri într-un şanţ, se descotorosi, sãpa un şanţ, rigolã (channel, drain, gully, gutter, trench), repara un şanţ, face sã deraieze (derail), canal (canal, channel, conduit, duct, flume, Fosse, gut, gutter, hose, jet, sewer, sound, the airways, trough), şanţ (channel, chase, dike, flute, Fosse, groove, gully, gutter, moat, notch, rut, trench), arunca în şanţ, înconjura cu şanţuri. (various references) | |
Russian | канава (canal, dike, drain, outfall, runnel, trench). (various references) | |
Scottish | clais (a furrow, furrow, groove). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dospeti u jarak, rov (moat, sap, trench), prokop, kopati jarak, jarak (rhine, trench). (various references) | |
Spanish | zanja (drain, hole, pit, sap, trench, trough), cuneta (gutter, kerb). (various references) | |
Swedish | dike (dike, dyke, gully, trench). (various references) | |
Thai | ทิ้ง (dump), ละทิ้ง, คูน้ำ. (various references) | |
Turkish | dersi asmak (play hookey, play hooky, play truant), denize iniş yapmak, yağmur suyunun oluşturduğu kanal, terketmek (cede, desert, desolate, discard, disuse, expose, fall off, flee, forsake, jack in, jilt, leave, relinquish, revolt from, throw over, void, walk away, walk on, walk out of, walk out on), suyolu açmak, suyolu (canal, channel, conduit, culvert, eaves, flume, gully, gully drain, gutter, offtake, thoroughfare, trench, watercourse), sepetlemek (ax, bounce, bundle, bundle off, give the sack, sack, send packing, send smb. packing, stave off), manş denizi (the channel, the english channel), kuzey denizi (arctic ocean, german ocean, north sea), kurtulmak (be freed, be recovered from, be rid of, be saved, break away, break loose, break oneself of a habit, defecate, discard, disengage, dispose of, elude, escape, evade, extricate oneself, free oneself, get away, get clear of, get out of, get rid of, make a bonfire of, make away with, pull through, put off, quit oneself, recover, shake off, smooth away, throw off), hendekle çevirmek, hendek kazmak (trench), hendek (dike, Fosse, moat, trench), hendeğe yuvarlamak, ark (arc, cannal, runnel). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яap, gorp, garnym, ganaw. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рів (canal, dike, moat, thorough, trench), рити канаву (channel), траншея (delf, entrenchment), канал (aqueduct, artery, canal, channel, deferent, feeder, sluice, watercourse), обкопувати ровом (moat), пускати під укіс (derail). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rãnh (drain, runnel, rut, sewer), h o (dike, dyke). (various references) | |
Welsh | ffosi (trench), ffos (trench), ceuffos (drain). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | sur. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fossa. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | trenche. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PiqoV gar tetrhmenoV estin allotrioV oikoV kai frear stenon allotrion |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Fovea enim profunda est meretrix et puteus angustus aliena |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A dep dich forsothe is a strumpet, and a streit pit an alien womman. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For a lewd woman is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | Kay ang usa ka bigaon maoy usa ka halalum nga kanal; Ug ang usa ka babaye nga dumuloong maoy usa ka masigpit nga gahong. |
| Croatian | Jer bludnica je jama duboka i tuðinka tijesan zdenac. |
| Danish | Thi en bundløs Grav er Skøgen, den fremmede Kvinde, en snæver Brønd; |
| Dutch | Want een hoer is een diepe gracht, en een vreemde vrouw is een enge put. |
| Finnish | Sillä portto on syvä kuoppa, ja vieras vaimo on ahdas kaivo. |
| French | Car la prostituée est une fosse profonde, Et l`étrangère un puits étroit. |
| German | Denn eine Hure ist eine tiefe Grube, und eine Ehebrecherin ist ein enger Brunnen. |
| Haitian Creole | Fanm jennès se tankou yon twou pèlen, fanm adiltè se tankou yon pi jis jis. |
| Hungarian | Mert mély verem a tisztátalan asszony, és szoros kút az idegen asszony. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Perempuan nakal yang melacur adalah perangkap yang berbahaya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | karena seorang perempuan sundal itu laksana parit yang dalam, dan seorang perempuan jalang seperti perigi yang sempit. |
| Italian | una fossa profonda è la prostituta, e un pozzo stretto la straniera. |
| Maori | No te mea he rua hohonu te wahine kairau; he poka kuiti te wahine ke. |
| Norwegian | For skjøgen er en dyp grav, og den fremmede kvinne en trang brønn; |
| Portuguese | Porque cova profunda é a prostituta; e poço estreito é a aventureira. |
| Rumanian | Cqci curva este o groapq adkncq, wi strqina o fkntknq strkmtq. |
| Russian | ПФПНХ ЮФП 'МХ"ОЙ"Б--ЗМХ'ПЛБС ТП БУФШ, Й ЮХЦБС ЦЕОБ--ФЕУОЩК ЛПМП"ЕЪШ; |
| Spanish | Porque fosa profunda es la prostituta; pozo angosto es la mujer extraña. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ditch": ditchdigger, ditchdiggers, ditched, ditcher, ditchers, ditches, ditching. (additional references) | |
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"Ditch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dach, Daitch, Datcha, dech, deoch, Deutch, dicah, dicht, Dichte, dict, dicto, dicty, dietki, digtech, dinch, dioch, Disch, ditc, ditche, ditchs, ditchy, dith, ditha, doch, Dontcha, driech, dritch, dutch, dutchy, duth, gitch, sdetch, titch, zitch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ditch" (pronounced di"kh) |
| 2 | -i" kh | bewitch, bitch, enrich, Fitch, glitch, hitch, ich, itch, kitsch, lich, niche, pitch, rich, snitch, Stich, stitch, switch, twitch, unhitch, which, wich, witch. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-h-i-t" | |
-1 letter: chid, chit, itch. | |
-2 letters: chi, dit, hic, hid, hit, ich, tic. | |
-3 letters: hi, id, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-h-i-t" | |
+1 letter: itched. | |
+2 letters: bitched, chedite, diptych, distich, ditched, ditcher, ditches, hitched, lichted, outchid, pitched, witched. | |
+3 letters: cathodic, cheddite, chedites, dichotic, diptychs, dispatch, distichs, ditchers, ditching, eldritch, flitched, hidrotic, kathodic, methodic, midwatch, outchide, snitched, stitched, switched, tachinid, theodicy, thinclad, tracheid, trichoid, trochoid, twitched. | |
+4 letters: bewitched, cadetship, charioted, chastised, cheddites, chittered, chondrite, chromatid, cohabited, dehiscent, detaching, diathetic, dichotomy, dichromat, dishcloth, dishclout, dowitcher, ethicized, hidrotics, outchided, outchides, stepchild, tachinids, thickened, thicketed, thickhead, thinclads, threnodic, tracheids, trochoids, unhitched, witchweed. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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