Trench vs Depression - What's the difference?
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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 , "Re: trenchcoat mafia", ne.general.selected , Usenet:
* 2007 , (Nina Garcia), The Little Black Book of Style'', HarperCollins, as excerpted in , October, page 138:
(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:
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* 1949 , (Charles Austin Beard), American Government and Politics , page 16:
* 2005 , Carl von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham, On War , page 261:
(military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
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(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
To have direction; to aim or tend.
To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
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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.
(lb) An area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
(lb) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future.
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(lb) In psychotherapy and psychiatry, a period of unhappiness or low morale which lasts longer than several weeks and may include ideation of self-inflicted injury or suicide.
(lb) An area of lowered air pressure that generally brings moist weather, sometimes promoting hurricanes and tornadoes.
(lb) A period of major economic contraction.
Four consecutive quarters of negative, real GDP growth. See NBER.
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A lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ, in contrast to elevation.
As nouns the difference between trench and depression
is that trench is a long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground while depression is an area that is lower in topography than its surroundings.As a verb trench
is to invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.trench
English
(wikipedia trench)Noun
(es)- 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 .
- A classic trench can work in any kind of weather and goes well with almost anything.
Derived terms
* * entrench * in the trenches * trench boot * trench coat * trench knife * trench mortar * trench mouth * trench warfareVerb
(es)- 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.
- 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?
- He could make what laws he pleased, as long as those laws did not trench upon property rights.
- [O]ur ideas, therefore, must trench upon the province of tactics.
- No more shall trenching war channel her fields.
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- (Francis Bacon)
- The wide wound that the boar had trenched / In his soft flank.
- This weak impress of love is as a figure / Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat / Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form.
- to trench land for the purpose of draining it
- to trench a garden for certain crops