different between tranche vs trench

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tranche, form of trancher (“to cut, to slice”), from Old French trenchier (“cut, make a cut”), possibly from Vulgar Latin *trinic?re (“cut in three parts”). Cognate to English trench.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /t?ænt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???n?/

Noun

tranche (plural tranches)

1. A slice, section or portion.
2. (insurance) A distinct subdivision of a single policyholder's benefits, typically relating to separate premium increments.
3. (pensions) A pension scheme's or scheme member's benefits relating to distinct accrual periods with different rules.
4. (finance) One of a set of classes or risk maturities that compose a multiple-class security, such as a CMO or REMIC; a class of bonds. Collateralized mortgage obligations are structured with several tranches of bonds that have various maturities.

Verb

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

1. (finance, transitive) To divide into tranches.

Related terms

• trench
• traunch

Translations

Further reading

• “tranche” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Investor Words

Anagrams

• chanter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t????/

Noun

tranche f (plural tranches)

1. slice
2. milling on a coin
3. period

Verb

tranche

1. first-person singular present indicative of trancher
2. third-person singular present indicative of trancher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of trancher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of trancher
5. second-person singular imperative of trancher

Further reading

• “tranche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• chanter, chantre

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

tranche f (plural tranches)

1. (Jersey) slice

English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

trench (plural trenches)

1. A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
2. (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
3. (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
4. (informal) A trench coat.
   • 1999, April 24, Xiphias Gladius <[email protected]>, "Re: trenchcoat mafia", ne.general.selected, Usenet:

     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.

   • 2007, Nina Garcia, The Little Black Book of Style, HarperCollins, as excerpted in Elle, October, page 138:

     A classic trench can work in any kind of weather and goes well with almost anything.

Derived terms

Related terms

• tranche

Translations

Verb

trench (third-person singular simple present trenches, present participle trenching, simple past and past participle trenched)

1. (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwoods, page 68:

     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.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature?

   • 1949, Charles Austin Beard, American Government and Politics, page 16:

     He could make what laws he pleased, as long as those laws did not trench upon property rights.

   • 2005, Carl von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham, On War, page 261:

     [O]ur ideas, therefore, must trench upon the province of tactics.

2. (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

   • Advanc'd upon the field there stood a mound
     Of earth congested, wall'd , and trench'd around

3. (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
4. To have direction; to aim or tend.
   • 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature

     the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate

5. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
6. To cut furrows or ditches in.

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

French

Etymology

From English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??nt?/

Noun

trench m (plural trenchs)

1. trench coat

Italian

Etymology

From English trench coat.

Noun

trench m (invariable)

1. trench coat