flankement

08:22 Jul 11, 2012
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Military / Defense / military architecture
Dutch term or phrase: flankement
Terminology in een woordenlijst: groot flankement = ondersteunend vuur naar de nevenforten; klein flankement = vuur dat de eigen omgeving van het verdedigingwerk bestrijkt

Flankerend vuur is "flanking fire", maar hoe vertaal je "groot flankement" en "klein flankement"?
Joost Simons
Local time: 00:17


Summary of answers provided
4flank
Lianne van de Ven
4 -1close-in and remote flaking fire
Ronald van Riet
3(Major) flanking division / (minor) flanking division
Terry Costin


  

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close-in and remote flaking fire


Explanation:
see references


    Reference: http://www.generalhieu.com/why_pleime_chV-2.htm
    Reference: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22remote+flanking+fire%22&ie...
Ronald van Riet
Local time: 00:17
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Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Terry Costin: yeah, but how then will the requestee get the answer to the word flankement? You described the second part not what was asked
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flank


Explanation:
major flank and minor flank

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definitions/Flank

minor flank moves:
http://is.gd/9CmrJP

And so Porfirio Zamora served as a cavalry commander for Júarez, while Díaz, who was then barely emerging as an important historical figure, led another major flank of troops at the Battle of Puebla.
http://www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2002/may/ed_3/

Lianne van de Ven
United States
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(Major) flanking division / (minor) flanking division


Explanation:
Sounds like a word derived from French and used in Flemish, but, I could be wrong on that bit.

We know a flank is a side, that could be anything, maybe the side of a dog, a flank in a group like an army, or the flanker in a rugby math, but the bit ''ement'' adds a different sense to the word that says more than only flank, or the flanker or flanking alone.

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On the left flank, the 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade captured Wolf Copse and secured its objective line but was ultimately forced to drop a defensive flank 300 yards (270 m) back to link up with the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, the flanking division of the British Fifth Army.





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Note added at 14 hrs (2012-07-11 22:34:44 GMT)
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That was rugby match and the spelling checker failed, bad, bad spelling checker; lose 5 points and go to start!

Example sentence(s):
  • On the left flank, the 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade captured Wolf Copse and secured its objective line but was ultimately forced to drop a defensive flank 300 yards (270 m) back to link up with the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, the flanking division of
Terry Costin
Netherlands
Local time: 00:17
Native speaker of: English
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