Trench

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A long, narrow ditch or hole in the ground; either manmade, or formed naturally through erosion or tectonic plate movement.

   “The trenches for installing the underground cables were dug with a trencher.”

2. isim A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.

   “The soldiers in the trenches rely on logistical support.”

3. isim A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
4. isim A trench coat.

   “I was the first person in my high school to wear a trench and fedora constantly, and Ben was one of the first to wear a black trench.”

5. fiil To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.

   “Shee is the Judge, Thou Executioner, Or if thou needs would'st trench upon her power, Thou mightst have yet enjoy'd thy crueltie, With some more thrift, and more varietie.”

6. fiil To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

   “No more shall trenching war channel her fields.”

7. fiil To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
8. fiil To have direction; to aim or tend.

   “the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate”

9. fiil To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.

   “The wide wound that the boar had trenched / In his soft flank.”

10. fiil To cut furrows or ditches in.

    “to trench land for the purpose of draining it”

11. fiil To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.

    “to trench a garden for certain crops”

12. özel isim A suburb of Telford, Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6912).
13. özel isim A habitational surname.