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trench
English
Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenche.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??nt?/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Noun
trench (plural trenches)
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- (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.
- 1999, April 24, Xiphias Gladius <[email protected]>, "Re: trenchcoat mafia", ne.general.selected, Usenet:
Derived terms
Related terms
- tranche
Translations
Verb
trench (third-person singular simple present trenches, present participle trenching, simple past and past participle trenched)
- (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.
- 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwoods, page 68:
- (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
- Advanc'd upon the field there stood a mound
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
- the reason and consequence thereof may trench to point of estate
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
- 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)
- trench coat
Italian
Etymology
From English trench coat.
Noun
trench m (invariable)
- trench coat
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crevice
English
Etymology
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??v?s/
Noun
crevice (plural crevices)
- A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
- The mouse, / Behind the mouldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.
- 16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West
- I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
Translations
Verb
crevice (third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced)
- To crack; to flaw.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)
References
- crevice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- crevice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- crevice at OneLook Dictionary Search
Old French
Alternative forms
- crevez, crevis, crevesce, creveche, creveis, escrevise, escreveice, escreviche
Etymology
From either Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb?-, *gereb?- (“to scratch, crawl”), or from Old High German krebiz (“edible crustacean, crab”) (German Krebs (“crab”)), from the same source. Cognate with Middle Low German kr?vet (“crab”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”).
Noun
crevice f (oblique plural crevices, nominative singular crevice, nominative plural crevices)
- crayfish, crawfish
Descendants
- Middle French: escrevice, escrevisse, escrevisce, crevis, creviche, crevice
- French: écrevisse
- ? Middle Dutch: crevetse
- ? Middle English: crevis, crevyse, creuez, crevez, crevise, creveys, crevesse, krevys
- English: crevis; crayfish, crawfish (influenced by fish)
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