flank
flank is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.
- noun. The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.
- noun. That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet.
- noun. The side of any building.
- noun. That part of the acting surface of a gear wheel tooth that lies within the pitch line.
- transitive verb. To stand at the flank or side of; to border upon.
- transitive verb. To overlook or command the flank of; to secure or guard the flank of; to pass around or turn the flank of; to attack, or threaten to attack; the flank of.
- intransitive verb. To border; to touch.
- intransitive verb. To be posted on the side.
- 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
- noun. the side of military or naval formation
"they attacked the enemy's right flank"
- noun. a subfigure consisting of a side of something
- verb. be located at the sides of something or somebody
Synonyms
Common word forms
flanks, flanked, flanken, flanker, flanking
Words from these letters
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