different between trach vs tranch

English

Alternative forms

• trake (rare)

Noun

trach (plural trachs)

1. (informal) A tracheotomy or tracheostomy.
2. (informal) The tube inserted in a tracheotomy.
3. (informal) One who undergoes a tracheotomy.

Verb

trach (third-person singular simple present traches, present participle traching, simple past and past participle trached)

1. Alternative form of trache (“fit with tracheostomy tube”)

Anagrams

• chart, ratch

Irish

Alternative forms

• troch

Etymology

From Old English trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós (compare Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), enlargement of *dóru (“tree”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?????x/

Noun

trach m (genitive singular trach, nominative plural trachanna)

1. trough (long, narrow, open container for feeding animals)

Declension

Derived terms

• trach uisce (“drinking-trough”)

Mutation

Further reading

• "trach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “trach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “trach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

English

Etymology

Compare French trancher (“to slice”).

Verb

tranch (third-person singular simple present tranches, present participle tranching, simple past and past participle tranched)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To carve; to slice.

Further reading

• A taste for miscellany