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Trench definition: 1. A narrow hole that is dug into the ground: 2. A deep hole dug by soldiers and used as a place. Cambridge Dictionary +Plus; My profile. Serving one's time and surviving combat in battlefield trenches in youth mean promotion for some, but discharge, desertion or death for others. 2020-4-5 A term coined by Derek Bell of the Toronto Blue Jays during the 1992 World Series defining ones reserves or bench players as super fans or cheerleaders, supporting their teammates to the fullest extent from the front or rails of the dugout. Occasionally, members of said trenches are called upon to perform the duties of the starting players and contribute to their fullest extent.
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see oceanocean,interconnected mass of saltwater covering 70.78% of the surface of the earth, often called the world ocean. It is subdivided into four (or five) major units that are separated from each other in most cases by the continental masses. See also oceanography.
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Trench
in mining, an open excavation in the ground. A trench has a trapezoidal cross section, and its length is many times greater than its width.
Sloping main, or primary, trenches are used in stripping an opencut mine or an individual area of such a mine, and also in establishing a haulage system to link the working levels with the surface. A horizontal, or cross-sectional, trench is designed to establish the initial working front at a bench. In the case of irregular mountain terrain, a trench may have an irregular cross section (hasty trench).
Main trenches are classified on various bases. In terms of their relationship to the contours of the pit, they may be external or internal. They may be of the individual type (providing haulage for a single level), the group type (serving several levels), or the general type (for all working levels in the pit). On the basis of the traffic flow, they are classified as single trenches, with two-way traffic, and paired trenches, with one-way traffic.
The width of a horizontal trench depends on the location of the haulage system and excavation equipment in the horizon being stripped. The depth of a horizontal trench corresponds to the height of the horizon to be stripped. The optimum depth of an inclined main external trench is 50–60 m.
In pits with soft rock, trenches are excavated using multibucket excavators, dragline excavators, or scrapers; single-bucket excavators (trenchers) are used in pits with hard rock. Ejection explosions may be used in digging a trench. If conditions permit, the stripped rock is placed on the surface on one or both sides of the trench; otherwise, it is moved by vehicles to spoil banks.
The rate of excavation of trenches depends largely on the time required for construction of the pit and, in sloped and steeply inclined deposits, also on the productivity of the pit.
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Trenches are also used in construction, for the laying of pipelines and cables.
trench
[trench] (geography)A narrow, straight, elongate, U-shaped valley between two mountain ranges.
A narrow stream-eroded canyon, gulley, or depression with steep sides.
(geology) A long, narrow, deep depression of the sea floor, with relatively steep sides. Also known as submarine trench.
trench
2. A housing, 1.
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Pronunciation /tren(t)SH//trɛn(t)ʃ/
noun
- 1A long, narrow ditch.
- ‘Although the analyses were undertaken in trenches parallel to the detrital-authigenic boundary, no decrease in ages was detected within the overgrowth.’
- ‘It also allows the tracks of the excavator to remain parallel to the trench for efficient repositioning.’
- ‘One such spot is the Labyrinth, where deep trenches are carved into Wright Valley, a relatively ice-free area of the continent.’
- ‘It takes guts to take on a whole range of obstacles including dunes, wadis, muddy chotts and deep trenches.’
- ‘The trench should be deep enough to cover the plants' roots and crown (the point at which roots and stem meet) and long enough to hold all the plants.’
- ‘There's the 16th green with a deep trench through its middle.’
- ‘‘The trench is not deep and is at a high point of the pass,’ he pointed out.’
- ‘They set the asparagus roots 6 to 8 inches deep in the trench and covered the crowns with 2 inches of compost.’
- ‘If the plastic is buried too deep into the trench, it can't be pulled up easily by hand, and if it's buried too shallow, it pulls out with the wind.’
- ‘This feature conceals a deep trench and a retaining wall that protect the building from errant drivers.’
- ‘This reduces repositioning time by allowing the tracks to remain parallel to the trench.’
- ‘A deep trench, which was obvious to an adult, had been dug in the grassland by the defendant as part of the development.’
- ‘In Paternoster Row, near the top of the hill, it was laid in a deep trench to help reduce the gradient.’
- ‘The end of the trench should have a deeper area which is used to rake hot ash and embers into.’
- ‘The discovery of the ruins came after a mudslide flushed out a deep trench nearly two-kilometers long and 25-meters wide through rice fields late last month.’
- ‘Waterford City Council has granted permission for the work, though the trench is in a zone of archaeological potential listed in the council's own development plan.’
- ‘In the morning there was a trench about four feet deep with perfectly straight sides that ran halfway down the block.’
- ‘Near one of their bore-wells, there was a deep trench in which run-off flowed during the monsoon.’
- ‘This was the only way to let new trust grow across a deep trench between the erstwhile perpetrators and their victims.’
- ‘On the floor, in the corner, is a small pit and a trench about six inches deep.’
ditch, channel, trough, excavation, pit, furrow, rut, conduit, cut, drain, waterway, watercourseView synonyms- 1.1A narrow ditch dug by troops to provide a place of shelter from enemy fire.
- ‘I stood in a deep trench with members of various companies waiting for the whistle to jump out and low crawl to the barbed wire.’
- ‘Usually about six feet wide and seven feet deep, the trenches were guarded by barbed wire and machine-gun posts.’
- ‘He thinks to himself that, if it were not for war, he would not be about to go off and kill the fellow just like himself in the trenches on the other side of no man's land, but would be sitting down and having a drink with the man.’
- ‘It's like the troops appearing from the trenches on Christmas Day for a quick game of football before the sun sets and they return to their killing posts.’
- ‘Later in the day, the army dug out fresh trenches and put large concrete slabs in front of them so they could never be moved by bare hands alone.’
- ‘During their four years of occupation, the Germans had created four successive, mutually supporting defensive lines, linked by trenches and interlocking arcs of fire.’
- ‘By Christmas 1914, the front had ossified into a continuous line of trenches from the North Sea to the Swiss border.’
- ‘They should be, therefore, installed as soon as foxholes are dug and expanded into trenches or commander's observation posts are erected.’
- ‘Belgian highway construction uncovered a nearly intact system of trenches and the remains of seven soldiers of the War to End All Wars.’
- ‘While he managed to fight as far as the fourth line of trenches, by 3.30 pm practically his whole battalion had been wiped out by German artillery.’
- ‘The youth's regiment relieved a command that had manned a series of trenches along a line of woods.’
- ‘And, much to the horror of the ground commanders of World War I, they suddenly realised that the Germans had three rather than the accepted two lines of trenches.’
- ‘There were several lines of trenches dug into the area outside the armory, stretching from the pavement all across the hundred yards of lawn to the barricaded doors.’
- ‘As a sniper, he spent most of his time between the lines of trenches, in ‘No Man's Land ’, hunting other snipers.’
- ‘Turner continued leading his men over three lines of hostile trenches, cleaning up each one as they advanced.’
- ‘On battlefields dominated by machine guns and artillery, men at the front huddled in deep trenches or other battle positions.’
- ‘They dug trenches, emplaced minefields and strung concertina wire.’
- ‘The enemy had returned to the bunker by means of connecting trenches from other emplacements and the platoon was again halted by devastating fire.’
- ‘The frontline trenches are preserved, and you can see just how close the fighters were - literally a grenade's throw apart.’
- ‘The number of trenches and sandbagged gun positions has tripled in two weeks.’
- 1.2trenchesA connected system of trenches forming an army's line.
- ‘Each night more men withdrew in silence until only two hundred and fifty soldiers maintained the front line of trenches where a hundred and thirty thousand had previously defended.’
- ‘The first line of trenches was called front line trenches.’
- ‘Getting decent hot food from the field kitchens to the front line trenches could be impossible when a battle was either imminent or in full flow.’
- ‘In places, the Canadian and German soldiers were less than 25 metres from one another on the front line trenches.’
- ‘Somewhere over that gentle rise were their own trenches and, a little farther, the trenches of the Army.’
- ‘We somehow took the second line of the German trenches.’
- ‘Half a mile out of Maricourt, we crossed the line of the British trenches.’
- ‘Instead, I chose a collection of 300 World War I letters written from the trenches, tents and field hospitals of Flanders.’
- ‘The logic behind this was so that the artillery guns would destroy the German trenches and barbed wire placed in front of the trenches.’
- ‘British gunfire should have destroyed the barbed wire defences in front of the German trenches, but it had not, as the men found out when they crawled and ran towards the German lines.’
- ‘The military failure in Gallipoli had pushed the emphasis of the war back to the Western Front - to the trenches and the lack of movement.’
- ‘Back in the trenches, he offered a prize to the first platoon to kick its football up to the German trenches on the day of the attack.’
- ‘In evocative detail William's diary describes the first time he went over the top of the trenches on June 28, 1915.’
- 1.3the trenchesThe battlefields of northern France and Belgium in World War I.‘the slaughter in the trenches created a new cynicism’‘entry-level teachers are taught the latest classroom techniques by colleagues with experience in the trenches’
- ‘The plaque commemorates some 600 Dawson men who went off to fight in the trenches of France and Belgium.’
- ‘Tolkien was said to have based the battle scenes on his own experiences in the trenches of the First World War.’
- ‘After art school he served in the trenches throughout the First World War, an experience which produced one of his major works and left him with a lifelong interest in warfare and soldiers.’
- ‘Uncle Charlie had been in the trenches in the First World War and come back ‘shell shocked.’’
- ‘My dad never knew his own dad - he was killed in the trenches during the First World War but I have never heard a bitter word uttered by my dad towards the German nation.’
- ‘To compound whatever he saw or experienced in the trenches of the First World War, the man was an alcoholic and a drug addict.’
- ‘The twentieth century was a dark century, born in the trenches of the First World War and coming of age in the concentration camps of the Holocaust.’
- ‘The often bestial conditions in the trenches of the First World War were thought to have permitted the manufacture of only the crudest items.’
- ‘My great uncles fought in the trenches in the first world war and my father's generation were involved in the second world war.’
- ‘My dad served in the trenches in the First World War and my mum's brother was killed on the Somme.’
- ‘The fact that it is also set in the trenches of the First World War only helps.’
- ‘It was famously sung in the trenches of the First World War by Welsh regiments to keep their spirits up, and it's a firm favourite with Welsh rugby crowds.’
- ‘In the trenches during the First World War, two foot-soldiers come upon the unconscious figure of an officer.’
- ‘The family story is that he died because of the chronic effects of being gassed in the trenches of France in World War I.’
- ‘My father was a soldier of the Great War, fighting in the trenches of France because of a shot fired in a city he'd never heard of called Sarajevo.’
- ‘It was not until the spring of 1918 that angel rumours were again spread through the elaborate grapevine that had developed in the trenches of the Western Front.’
- ‘The battles in the trenches were long and resulted in much more loss of life while the naval battles in most cases helped bring about the end of the war.’
- ‘We all found him a very entertaining fellow, as he helped us pass the long, boring hours in the trenches of France.’
- ‘But, you know, we've been in the trenches on a number of issues that are important to communities all across this country.’
- ‘He's been in the trenches on a lot of issues, like veterans care.’
- 1.4A long, narrow, deep depression in the ocean floor, typically one running parallel to a plate boundary and marking a subduction zone.
- ‘The most conspicuous outboard structure is the accretionary wedge that lies just continentward of the ocean trench, the bathymetric manifestation of the subduction zone.’
- ‘A shelf of coral and limestone jutting into the dark abyss of the ocean trench to the west of the islands, it offers a ringside place at the marine bonanza represented by a strong upwelling current.’
- ‘McCartney's voice can take some getting used to, but the wonders of reverb on songs like ‘Metropolitan’ and ‘Northern Light’ bring to mind images of music bubbling up from the depths of an ocean trench; it's a nice touch.’
- ‘He explained to me that there were probably about 20 or so divers in the lake, and that they explore the rocky lake bottom which apparently also includes a deep trench.’
- ‘They filled the seas 400 million years ago, and perhaps a few are lurking in some deep sea trench.’
- ‘The trench runs roughly parallel to the west coast of Sumatra about 125 miles offshore.’
- ‘However, in this instance, the crew was seen throwing large plastic bags filled with garbage into a deep trench located off Pattaya's coastline.’
- ‘The descending mantle current tends to drag the crust down with it, forming a deep trench or piling up young mountains.’
- ‘The current angled across the shelf and spilled in a deeper trench below.’
- ‘The Solomon Sea, north of Cape Vogel, is characterized by deep trenches, some reaching depths of nearly 30,000 feet.’
- ‘These trenches are where subduction is happening.’
- ‘As the name implies, volcanic island arcs, which closely parallel the trenches, are generally curved.’
- ‘In the Indian Ocean, deep trenches are confined to the southern coast of Indonesia, and tsunamis are rare.’
- ‘They are a success story from the rocky tide pools of the zones near the surface, all the way down to the deepest trenches which score the ocean floor.’
- ‘There is also an observed parallel association of trenches and island arcs.’
- ‘We can clearly see the subducting plate boundary at least 85 km from the trench and probably much farther.’
- ‘Now a lot of the time that's just because we're used to breathing air and having nice warm temperatures, and of course it's not a problem for animals that live down there and there's life down to the bottom of the very deepest ocean trenches.’
- ‘Deep marine trenches with thermal vent ecosystems independent of solar energy add to the enormous complexity of our biodiversity.’
- ‘The area outside the store was like that of some deep oceanic trench.’
verb
- 1with objectDig a trench or trenches in (the ground)
- ‘The waterways phase of the beautification project at Mennonite Heritage Village includes trenching scenic streams to feed into the lake.’
- ‘The perimeter of each plot was trenched to 1 m depth and lined with polyethylene film to prevent lateral movement of soil water.’
- 1.1Turn over the earth of (a field or garden) by digging a succession of adjoining ditches.‘Here John McPhail, the gardener, was at work trenching in 1828 to create beds for the already burgeoning plant collection.’dig a ditch in, provide with ditches, trench, excavate, drainView synonyms
- 2trench on/uponarchaic no objectBorder closely on; encroach on.‘this would surely trench very far on the dignity and liberty of citizens’
- ‘Isn't the gold standard for civil liberties questions the ‘strict scrutiny’ test, whereby legislative enactments trenching on constitutional rights need to achieve a compelling state interest by the least intrusive means possible?’
- ‘Well, the president getting involved, he has a right to, but it crosses, it trenches upon the powers of separation.’
- ‘And balanced against this country's self-defense needs, we cannot say that the district court erred in concluding that the electronic surveillance here did not trench upon Ivanov's Fourth Amendment rights.’
- ‘Laws that trench upon established rights and liberties and do very little in preventing extreme acts of political violence will be on the statute books.’
- ‘He pointed out that ‘many other states have achieved the same essential goals [of preserving the judiciary's integrity and independence] without trenching upon clearly established constitutional rights.’’
Origin
Late Middle English (in the senses ‘track cut through a wood’ and ‘sever by cutting’): from Old French trenche (noun), trenchier (verb), based on Latin truncare (see truncate).
Pronunciation
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