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Meaning of "tenaille" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TENAILLE

From French, literally: tongs, from Late Latin tenācula, pl of tenaculum.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TENAILLE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TENAILLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tenaille is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TENAILLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tenaille

Tenaille is an advanced defensive-work, in front of the main defences of a fortress which takes its name from resemblance, real or imaginary, to the lip of a pair of pincers. It is "from French, literally: tongs, from Late Latin tenācula, pl of tenaculum". In a letter to John Bradshaw, President of the Council of State in London, Oliver Cromwell writing from Dublin on 16 September 1649 described one such tenaille that played a significant part during the storming of Drogheda. ... There was a Tenalia to flanker the south Wall of the Town, between Duleek Gate and the corner Tower before mentioned;—which our men entered, wherein they found some forty or fifty of the Enemy which they put to the sword. And this 'Tenalia' they held: but it being without the Wall, and the sally-port through the Wall into that Tenalia being choked up with some of the Enemy which were killed in it, it proved of no use for an entrance into the Town that way.... —Oliver Cromwell Tenaille were a development in fortification design formalised by Vauban.

Definition of tenaille in the English dictionary

The definition of tenaille in the dictionary is a low outwork in the main ditch between two bastions.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TENAILLE


agnail
ˈæɡˌneɪl
doornail
ˈdɔːˌneɪl
fingernail
ˈfɪŋɡəˌneɪl
Gangnail
ˈɡæŋˌneɪl
hangnail
ˈhæŋˌneɪl
hobnail
ˈhɒbˌneɪl
nail
neɪl
renail
riːˈneɪl
snail
sneɪl
thumbnail
ˈθʌmˌneɪl
toenail
ˈtəʊˌneɪl
trenail
ˈtriːneɪl
unnail
ʌnˈneɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TENAILLE

tenable
tenableness
tenably
tenace
tenacious
tenaciously
tenaciousness
tenacity
tenacula
tenaculum
tenaillon
tenancies
tenancy
tenancy agreement
tenant
tenant farmer
tenant in common
tenant-in-chief
tenant-like
tenantable

WORDS THAT END LIKE TENAILLE

Braille
caille
canaille
faille
famille
fille
grille
grisaille
Huntsville
Jacksonville
Knoxville
Lille
Louisville
marseille
mitraille
Nashville
rascaille
rocaille
taille
trouvaille

Synonyms and antonyms of tenaille in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tenaille» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TENAILLE

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The translations of tenaille from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tenaille» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

tenaille
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tenaille
570 millions of speakers

English

tenaille
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tenaille
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tenaille
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

tenaille
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tenaille
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tenaille
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tenaille
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tenaille
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tenaille
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tenaille
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tenaille
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tenaille
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

tenaille
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tenaille
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दहा मिनिटे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

TENAILLE
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tenaglia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tenaille
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

tenaille
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Tenaille
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

tenaille
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

tenaille
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

tenaljen
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

tenaille
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tenaille

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TENAILLE»

The term «tenaille» is regularly used and occupies the 75.414 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TENAILLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tenaille» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tenaille» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tenaille

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TENAILLE»

Discover the use of tenaille in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tenaille and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Music is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African ...
Tells the story of African popular music, or Afropop, and its relationship to Africa's social and political milieu over the past 50 years, by presenting in-depth portraits of thirty important African musicians.
Frank Tenaille, 2002
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Index Universalis Multilingualis: Deutsch - Französisch - ...
... 2/103 tenaille _ Tenaille /einfache Tenaille / Grabenschere /Schere / Zangenwerk _ tenaille, 7/168 tenaille bastionnée _ bastioned tenaille _ bastionierte Tenaille, 7/169 tenaille double _ double tenaille _ doppelte Tenaille, 7/169 tenaille ...
K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Company, Walter De Gruyter, 2003
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A Military Dictionary: Or, Explaination of the Several ...
TENAILLE, Fr. [This word literally means shears. ) A military evolution which was performed in the times of the ancients. A phalanx, attacked by a lozenge or triangular wedge, bent its right and left forward by a half.quarter wheel each wing on ...
William Duane, 1810
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Pantologia: a new cabinet cyclopaedia, comprehending a ...
TENAILLE, in fonificaiion, a kind of outwork, consisting of two parallel sides, with a front, having a re-entering angle. In fact, that angle, and the faces which compose it, are the tenaille. The tenaille is of two kinds, simple and double. Simple, or ...
‎1819
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Vauban and the French Military Under Louis XIV: An ...
The tenaille was created—it is often said—by Vauban, who considered it the replacement of the fausse-braie. It was a low wall placed in the ditch at the foot of the main curtain between both flanks of bastions. This outwork was formed by two  ...
Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage, 2009
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A new and enlarged military dictionary, or, Alphabetical ...
TENAILLE, Fr. (This word literally means Jbears.) A military evolution which was performed in the times of the ancients. In page 206 of Observations on the Military Art, we have the following account of it :— A phalanx, attacked by a lozenge or ...
Charles James, 1802
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American Artillerist's Companion: Or Elements of Artillery. ...
rampart, of the curtain, its brisures, and the appareilles at the gorge of an orillon bastion H. Ofthe 'tenaille, fig. 1. Tenailles are low works made on the lines of defence in the ditch before the curtain. They are of three sorts, viz. the simple tenaille, ...
Louis de Tousard, 1809
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Tales from China
A collection of sixteen traditional folktales from China.
Annie Bergeret, Marie Tenaille, 1981
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A treatise on the science of war and fortification: composed ...
After the capture of the redoubt P, the besiegers will batter in breach the bastion faces, and counter-batter its flanks ; and if the tenaille leave an opening opposite the curtain, they will make a breach in it with a battery posted at the extremity of ...
Simon François Gay de Vernon (baron), John Michael O'Connor, 1817
10
Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Fortification, Military ...
... and are sometimes joined by a curtain; frequently the work has flanks, and then it resembles a small front of fortification. The interval between each extremity of a tenaille, and the nearest flank of the collateral bastion (between XT and Q^, PI.
Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1852

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TENAILLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tenaille is used in the context of the following news items.
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Des loyers en tenaille à Paris
Des loyers en tenaille à Paris. À partir du 1er août, les loyers sont encadrés dans la capitale, selon deux critères : leur localisation et leur nombre de pièces. «Le Point, Jul 15»
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L'Etat islamique sera bientôt pris en tenaille
L'accord scellé entre Ankara et Washington accentue la pression sur l'EI. Il stipule la création d'une zone sécurisée pour les réfugiés. Mais sans interdiction de ... «Le Temps, Jul 15»
3
Rugby à XIII / Super League : La peur du vide tenaille les troupes …
Rémi Casty exhorte ses troupes à tout faire pour sauver le club demain face à Huddersfield. PHOTO/Archives Harry Jordan. Les Dragons préparent la venue ... «L'indépendant.fr, Jul 15»
4
François Sauvadet : « Non, je ne serai pas pris en tenaille »
Avec ces 70 % de la liste issus du parti Les républicains, ne craignez-vous pas d'être pris en tenaille, d'autant que dans le même temps, Alain Joyandet devient ... «Gazette Info, Jul 15»
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Alexis Tsipras pris en tenaille entre son parti et les créanciers du pays
Alexis Tsipras pris en tenaille entre son parti et les créanciers du pays. Les 19 ministres des Finances européens devaient tenter de trouver un accord sur l'aide ... «La Croix, Jun 15»
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Le go-fast pris en tenaille entre deux camions et un 4 x 4
L'Audi a été percutée par l'arrière par les gendarmes et coincée dans l'arrière d'un camion. - (Photo gendarmerie nationale). C'est un scénario digne d'un film ... «la Nouvelle République, Jun 15»
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Des migrants rescapés pris en tenaille entre la Birmanie et le …
Indésirables au Bangladesh comme en Birmanie, des centaines de migrants, retrouvés amaigris et affamés sur un bateau à la dérive dans le Golfe du Bengale, ... «RTBF, Jun 15»
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Le dragon coréen pris en tenaille
Alexandre Mirlicourtois, directeur de la conjoncture et de la prévision de Xerfi./ DR La Tribune publie chaque jour des extraits issus des analyses diffusées sur ... «La Tribune.fr, Jun 15»
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Grèce : M. Tsipras pris en tenaille entre ses créanciers et sa majorité
De quelles marges de manœuvre dispose le premier ministre grec, Alexis Tsipras, qui apparaît pris en tenaille entre les demandes de créanciers, par ailleurs ... «Le Monde, May 15»
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Quand la faim vous tenaille
Imaginez-vous un instant, sans eau ni de quoi manger depuis de longs mois. Imaginez que la faim vous tenaille, et ce, à chaque instant. Tenace, elle fait mal et ... «Le Devoir, May 15»

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