Trench vs. Sap: What's the Difference?

A deep furrow or ditch.

The watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying food and other substances to the various tissues.

A long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used for concealment and protection in warfare.

See cell sap.

A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor.

Health and energy; vitality

To dig or make a trench or trenches in (land or an area, for example).

(Slang) A foolish or gullible person.

To place in a trench

A covered trench or tunnel dug to a point near or within an enemy position.

To dig a trench or trenches.

A leather-covered bludgeon with a short, flexible shaft or strap, used as a hand weapon.

To encroach. Often used with on or upon

To drain (a tree, for example) of sap.

To verge or border. Often used with on or upon

To deplete or weaken gradually

A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.

To undermine the foundations of (a fortification).

(military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.

To dig a sap.

(archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.

To hit or knock out with a sap.

(informal) A trench coat.

(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.

(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.

Any juice.

(archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.

(figurative) Vitality.

To have direction; to aim or tend.

A naive person; a simpleton

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.

A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

To cut furrows or ditches in.

(military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.

(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

To exhaust the vitality of.

To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.

To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.

(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

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.

To pierce with saps.

To encroach; to intrench.

(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

To have direction; to aim or tend.

(transitive) To gradually weaken.

A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.

(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

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.

The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth

A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

A long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Any long ditch cut in the ground

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Impinge or infringe upon;

To pierce with saps.

Fortify by surrounding with trenches;

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Cut or carve deeply into;

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Set, plant, or bury in a trench;

A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

Cut a trench in, as for drainage;

A person who lacks good judgment

Dig a trench or trenches;

A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

Deplete;

Excavate the earth beneath