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flank English

Meaning flank meaning

What does flank mean?
Definitions in simple English

flank Verb

— If an attacking group flanks someone, it comes from both sides.

flank Noun

— A flank is the part of the body between the ribs and the hip.

flank

— verb be located at the sides of something or somebody — noun the side of military or naval formation they attacked the enemy's right flank — noun a subfigure consisting of a side of something — noun the side between ribs and hipbone — noun a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg

Synonyms flank synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as flank?

flank English » English

side wing lateral sidelight aspect side of body rib groin face downstroke breast border ward wall vane thigh skirt steak skirt sides side face shore run along rim pleura page outflank lumbus loin line limb level leg leaf laterally lateral surface profile plane lateral face lateral area hypocondrium hand gear fringe end edge corner circumvent broadside boundary border on body’s side belly bank

Topics flank topics

What do people use flank to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict

War
Universe, creation Animal

Parts of an animal
States Parts of things

Side

Conjugation flank conjugation

How do you conjugate flank?

flank · verb

Examples flank examples

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Movie subtitles

Right flank, direct your fire closer to the hillside.
Mass the longbows on the right flank, crossbows on the left.
You, Gavrilo, will command the left flank.
All engines ahead, flank speed.
All engines ahead and flank speed.
They play those Flank Sinatra records.
By the right flank!
To the right flank, freeze!
Whitney, you cover the left flank.
Duncanon, you cover the right flank.
Keep your eye out for the flank.
Forward slope, reverse slope, east flank, west flank. well, here's where we were when the rockets first hit us.
Flank him on the left.
Jack! Cover the left flank!
Cover the right flank!
I'll be on the right flank with a few men, and Bomba will be on the left.
Left flank, close in!
It's the latest report from Palm Beach on the winter maneuvers of Lorraine Sheldon against the left flank, or rather all flanks, of Lord Cedric Bottomley.
All engines ahead flank speed.
You forgot to protect your rear flank.
By twos! By the right flank!
Where will your right flank be?
And the left flank on the right.
It's important to attack the French in the flank.
Left flank.
Now get the snipers out and flank the road.
Sir, it looks as if the French have broken our flank.
I'll expose his flank in the next move.
Our right flank's getting clobbered.
Flank speed.
Reactor room, stand by. As soon as we're off the bottom, I want all ahead, flank.
Besides, you know, I was so quick I failed to flank Tartuffe to the ground.
If you hadn't held the flank today, we'd have been whipped for fair.
We'll flank McClellan's forces.
Proceed at flank speed.

News and current affairs

The member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations, on Burma's eastern flank, have made similar calculations.
If the EU decides to leave in abeyance the possibility that Ukraine and Belarus might one day join, both will enter a political limbo that could threaten security on the EU's eastern flank.
Merkel could attempt this strategy because she knew that her right flank was covered by the FDP, which would attract voters dissatisfied with the CDU's leftward turn, but then join in a CDU-led coalition.
In exchange for more bilateral and multilateral financing, Russia now faces growing US military bases on its southern flank in Central Asia and the Caucasus, while NATO is poised to expand right up to our Western border.
NEW YORK - How should Europe react to the rise of a hostile Russia on its eastern flank?

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