Trenches vs Trench - What's the difference?
trenches | trench |
(plural noun) The front line of any field of endeavor, as the line of scrimmage in American football, patrol duty for a policeman.
(trench)
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:
* I. Taylor
* 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.
* Shakespeare
(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.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
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.
As nouns the difference between trenches and trench
is that trenches is while trench is a long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.As verbs the difference between trenches and trench
is that trenches is (trench) while trench is (usually|followed by upon) to invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.trenches
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(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.
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* * 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.
- (Alexander Pope)
- (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