What's the difference between berm and trench?

Berm


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Berme

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Berm Sex Role Inventory and the Defense Mechanism Inventory were administered to 66 high school students (31 boys and 25 girls), ages 14-19.
  • (2) Buried in the berm will be radar reflectors, magnets and a “Storage Room”, constructed around a stone slab too big to be removed via the chamber entrance.
  • (3) Each volunteer S completed the Berm Sex Role Inventory, the Interpersonal Style Inventory, and Loevinger's Sentence Completion Test.
  • (4) "No Nato," said Mohammed, the 14-year-old son of a Dafniya rebel fighter drinking tea behind one of the giant sand berms that shield rebel positions from sniper fire.
  • (5) You will capture the berm tomorrow morning.” Once again, Abu Ali’s reactions got the better of him.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Los Laureles canyon is cut off by an earth berm, a highway and the border wall – all inserted by Homeland Security.
  • (7) Some posting showed extremists weeping with joy as dozens of Iraqi army humvess were driven through a sand berm on the border into Syria.
  • (8) In the past, when they attacked, they tried to fill up the trench beyond our berms with a bulldozer, but this time was different,” said a Kurdish officer, Major Ibrahim, who has fought Isis since August 2014.
  • (9) They were very good fighters, but they also had good guns,” said Kovali, whose forces are on the front berm across from Isis-held Iraqi territory.
  • (10) With almost no formalities, the commander pointed to a large earth berm about 350 metres away.
  • (11) Susie and John Munro, who live in cottages beside the golf course car park, at the foot of the same hill which Milne’s house sits on, have complained about an earth wall or berm built by Trump’s staff which now entirely blocks their view across the old dunes and out to sea.
  • (12) He said he saw crews building a berm around a valve.
  • (13) I think of that configuration of berm, chamber, shaft, disc and hot cell – all set atop the casks of pulsing radioactive molecules entombed deep in the Permian strata – as perhaps our purest Anthropocene architecture.
  • (14) The government has decided to erect a fence and berm around the contours of the camp, Alhmoud told IRIN, "to prevent any foul play from the outside and the inside".
  • (15) The Iraqi army is on the other side of that berm,” he said.
  • (16) The present plans for marking the site involve a berm with a core of salt, enclosing the above-ground footprint of the repository.
  • (17) It looks arid now, but in heavy rains the water courses along the canyon, where these houses are, and can only escape through a drain in the berm wall.
  • (18) ODI cited the examples of Jordan refusing to welcome 70,000 Syrians stranded in the desert area of Berm and Kenya’s plans to shut the long-running Dadaab refugee camp and repatriate its largely-Somali refugee population.
  • (19) Three options have been proposed including an earth berm around the village, upstream storage and house-by-house defences.
  • (20) Like the building, the car park is raised up on a defensive berm, surrounded by gabion walls and hedgerows, reinforcing the feeling that this alien spaceship is cut off from the surrounding streets.

Trench


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
  • (v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To encroach; to intrench.
  • (v. i.) To have direction; to aim or tend.
  • (v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
  • (v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
  • (v. t.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
  • (2) The RSC’s Erica Whyman stages a story inspired by a local man, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment’s Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, who was known as the cartoonist of the trenches and survived the war to work at the original Shakespeare Memorial theatre.
  • (3) Stephen Fisher, one of the archaeologists recording the site, says digging the trenches would also have been training for the men, who would soon have to do it for real, and the little slit trenches scattered across the site, just big enough for one man to cower in, might represent their first efforts.
  • (4) Upon segregation of the conidium from the phialide cell by conidial wall formation, 'trench-like' invaginations gradually appeared in the plasma membrane and a disorganized rodlet pattern was formed on the outer surface of the maturing conidial wall.
  • (5) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
  • (6) Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London , including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.
  • (7) He sees HS2 as a "huge trench across the country where we can learn an awful lot about new sites.
  • (8) But his attitude gradually hardened, particularly after he reached the trenches.
  • (9) "It looks solid," said Jean Pascal Zanders, a Belgian expert who runs a blog on chemical weapons called The Trench .
  • (10) What they learn can be summed up in one word: trenches.
  • (11) The archaeologists had to wear slippers to preserve the site which, at the bottom of a two-metre trench, picked up much damp.
  • (12) A variety of cold exposure injuries were discussed, including frostnip, chilblains, trench foot, frostbite, and hypothermia.
  • (13) Alan Trench, an academic specialising in devolution and adviser to expert government commissions, said: "It's clear that Labour voters generally have concerns about how things are at the moment.
  • (14) But if trapped deep inside wreckage or an underwater trench, the effectiveness can be hindered.
  • (15) French troops wearing an early form of gas mask in the trenches during the second Battle of Ypres in 1915.
  • (16) Keeping within the string lines of your footprint, dig a trench about 15cm deep and lay the foundation stones flat and level.
  • (17) But according to Wayne Cocroft, an English Heritage expert on wartime archaeology, although 20 other trench training sites have been recorded across Britain, many have been damaged by later development, and both the scale and the state of preservation of the Gosport complex is exceptional.
  • (18) Working in a location to the southeast of Kathmandu, Paul Tapponnier, an earth scientist at the Earth Observatory of Singapore , and his team dug trenches across the fault and used charcoal to date when it had moved.
  • (19) There are no trenches, barbed wire fences or tank traps.
  • (20) Accessory glandular tissues were atrophied and debris filled the trenches of the papillae.