As rendering of Latin acies. Line of battle.
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释义 | society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > front or front line (21) edge1535 As rendering of Latin acies. Line of battle. front1665 Military. The foremost part of the ground occupied, or in wider sense, of the field of operations; the part next the enemy. firing line1859 The front line of troops in a battle. Eastern Front1914 the zone of conflict in an eastern sector, spec. (now historical) in central and eastern Europe during the First World War (1914–18), and in… Western Front1914 the zone of conflict in western Europe in the First World War (1914–18) and Second World War (1939–45), in which the German army engaged the armies… line1916 Military. In the war of 1914–18, the trenches collectively; the front line. So up the line (see quots.). second front1941 in the war of 1939–45, a front in Nazi-occupied Europe in addition to the Russian sector of fighting; also figurative and attributive. warfront1950 the foremost part of the field of operations of opposing armies. Subcategories:— part of (1) — salient (2) — area subjected to gunfire or bombing (3) — no man's land (1) — area behind battle-zone (2) — area with high concentration of fatalities (3) — mist or dust of battlefield (1) |
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