Trench vs. Sap

Trenchnoun

A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.

Trenchnoun

(military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.

Trenchnoun

(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.

Trenchnoun

(informal) A trench coat.

Trenchverb

}} To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.

Trenchverb

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

Trenchverb

(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.

Trenchverb

To have direction; to aim or tend.

Trenchverb

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.

Trenchverb

To cut furrows or ditches in.

Trenchverb

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

Trenchverb

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

Trenchverb

To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

Trenchverb

To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

Trenchverb

To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

Trenchverb

To encroach; to intrench.

Trenchverb

To have direction; to aim or tend.

Trenchnoun

A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

Trenchnoun

An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

Trenchnoun

An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.

Trenchnoun

a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

Trenchnoun

a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

Trenchnoun

any long ditch cut in the ground

Trenchverb

impinge or infringe upon;

Trenchverb

fortify by surrounding with trenches;

Trenchverb

cut or carve deeply into;

Trenchverb

set, plant, or bury in a trench;

Trenchverb

cut a trench in, as for drainage;

Trenchverb

dig a trench or trenches;

Trenchnoun

a long, narrow ditch

Trenchnoun

a long, narrow ditch dug by troops to provide a place of shelter from enemy fire.

Trenchnoun

a connected system of long, narrow ditches forming an army's line.

Trenchnoun

the battlefields of northern France and Belgium in the First World War

Trenchnoun

a long, narrow, deep depression in the ocean bed, typically one running parallel to a plate boundary and marking a subduction zone

Trenchnoun

a trench coat.

Trenchverb

dig a trench or trenches in (the ground)

Trenchverb

turn over the earth of (a field or garden) by digging a succession of adjoining ditches.

Trenchverb

border closely on; encroach on

Trench

A trench is a type of excavation or depression in the ground that is generally deeper than it is wide (as opposed to a wider gully, or ditch), and narrow compared with its length (as opposed to a simple hole or pit).In geology, trenches result from erosion by rivers or by geological movement of tectonic plates. In civil engineering, trenches are often created to install underground utilities such as gas, water, power and communication lines.

Sapnoun

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Sapnoun

(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Sapnoun

Any juice.

Sapnoun

(figurative) Vitality.

Sapnoun

a naive person; a simpleton

Sapnoun

A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

Sapnoun

(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Sapverb

(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

Sapverb

To exhaust the vitality of.

Sapverb

To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Sapverb

(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Sapverb

To pierce with saps.

Sapverb

(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Sapverb

(transitive) To gradually weaken.

Sapverb

(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Sapnoun

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Sapnoun

The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

Sapnoun

A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

Sapnoun

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Sapverb

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Sapverb

To pierce with saps.

Sapverb

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Sapverb

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Sapnoun

a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

Sapnoun

a person who lacks good judgment

Sapnoun

a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

Sapverb

deplete;

Sapverb

excavate the earth beneath

Sap

Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.