ditch

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.
2. (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.

Verb

1. (transitive) To discard or abandon.
2. (ambitransitive) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
3. (ambitransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
4. (intransitive) To dig ditches.
5. (transitive) To dig ditches around.
6. (transitive) To throw into a ditch.

Verb

Alternative form of deech.

Concetti

fossato

fosso

canale

fossa

acquedotto

affossare

ammarare

cunetta

torrente

affossamento

canale d’irrigazione

canale di irrigazione

canalone

colatore

affossatura

escavazione

bolgia

marinare

canale di scarico

chiusa

piantare

🌱

scaricare

trincea

sinonimi

trench

canal

gutter

moat

pit

drain

channel

gully

hole

🕳️

ravine

fosse

abandon

brook

groove

dump

waterway

trough

scotch

irrigation ditch

discard

drainage ditch

irrigation canal

sluice

gulch

furrow

drop

drainage

dike

deep-six

chuck

depression

small canal

irrigation channel

valley

stream

mountain stream

scrap

canalize

sewer

jilt

den

junk

get rid of

dugout

soar

chuckhole

boom

💥

chasm

chase

boo

Traduzioni

fossé

Graben

zanja

sloot

cuneta

greppel

fossa

fosso

vala

rigole

foso

gracht

fosse

groef

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/dɪt͡ʃ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: dich

Ereditato da inglese antico: dīċ

Affine svedese: dike

Affine islandese: díki

Affine frisone occidentale: dyk

Affine olandese: dijk

Affine tedesco: Teich

Affine latino: fīgō

Affine lituano: diegti

Ereditato da inglese medio: dechen

Ereditato da inglese antico: dēcan

In summary

From Middle English dich, from Old English dīċ (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“dam”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin fīgō (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike.