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 Translation for 'trench' from English to Norwegian
NOUN   a trench | trenches
VERB   to trench | trenched | trenched
trenching | trenches
SYNO deep | oceanic abyss | to ditch | ...
mil.
grøft {m/f} [revehull]
trench
mil.
skyttergrav {m/f}
trench [for shooting]
mil.
skyttergravskrig {m}
trench warfare
mil.
grøftekrigføring {m/f}
trench warfare
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Usage Examples English
  • A second trench is then started, backfilling the first trench.
  • The Mariana Trench (or Marianas Trench) is the deepest known submarine trench, and the deepest location in the Earth's crust itself.
  • Along with other trench diseases such as trench foot and trench fever, trench nephritis contributed to 25% of the British Expeditionary Force's triage bed occupancy and was the major kidney problem of the First World War.
  • The origin of the trench is related to the collision between Palawan Microcontinental Block and the Philippine Mobile Belt, which created first the Manila Trench and then the Philippine Trench.
  • A traverse trench is a trench dug perpendicular to a trench line, but extending away from the enemy.

  • Below are schematics depicting the measurement process for trench structures. Examples of trench measurements then follow.
  • In British and Canadian military argot it equates to a range of terms including slit trench, or fire trench (a trench deep enough for a soldier to stand in), a sangar (sandbagged fire position above ground) or shell scrape (a shallow depression that affords protection in the prone position), or simply—but less accurately—as a "trench".
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