"encirclement" meaning in English

See encirclement in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɪnˈsɜː(ɹ)kəlmənt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-encirclement.wav [Southern-England] Forms: encirclements [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin circulus Old French cerclebor. Middle English circle English circle English encircle Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English encirclement From encircle + -ment. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|encircle|-ment|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Old French en-bor. Middle English en- English en- Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der. Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor. Latin circus Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -ulus Latin circulus Old French cerclebor. 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  1. The act of encircling or the state of being encircled Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of encircling): акружэ́нне (akružénnje) [neuter] (Belarusian), обкръже́ние (obkrăžénie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 包圍 /包围 (bāowéi) (Chinese Mandarin), obklíčení [neuter] (Czech), ympyröinti (Finnish), Umzingelung [feminine] (German), Umzingeln [neuter] (German), Einkesseln [neuter] (German), Einkesselung [feminine] (German), περιτριγύρισμα (peritrigýrisma) [neuter] (Greek), 包囲 (hōi) (alt: ほうい) (Japanese), 포위 (powi) (alt: 包圍) (Korean), whiwhinga (Māori), taiāwhiotanga (Māori), ponitakatanga (Māori), okrążenie [neuter] (Polish), încercuire [feminine] (Romanian), окруже́ние (okružénije) [neuter] (Russian), obkľúčenie [neuter] (Slovak), курчу (kurču) (Southern Altai), kuşatma (Turkish), kuşatılma (Turkish), ото́чення (otóčennja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), amgylchyniad [masculine] (Welsh)
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  2. (military) The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (isolation of a target): շրջափակում (šrǰapʻakum) (Armenian), 包围圈 (bāowéiquān) (Chinese Mandarin), saarto (Finnish), piiritys (Finnish), motitus (Finnish), Umzingelung [feminine] (German), Umzingeln [neuter] (German), Einkesselung [feminine] (German), Einkesseln [neuter] (German), घेराव (gherāv) [masculine] (Hindi), ielenkums [masculine] (Latvian), otoczenie [neuter] (Polish), încercuire [feminine] (Romanian), înconjurare [feminine] (Romanian), окруже́ние (okružénije) [neuter] (Russian), курчу (kurču) (Southern Altai), kuşatma (Turkish), ото́чення (otóčennja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), amgylchyniad [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-encirclement-en-noun-vC6Wp6us Categories (other): Military Topics: government, military, politics, war Disambiguation of 'isolation of a target': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: operational encirclement

Inflected forms

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      },
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The act of encircling or the state of being encircled"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "encircling",
          "encircle"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Military"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              53,
              65
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 9:",
          "text": "Not only did it give the Russians an abiding fear of encirclement, whether by nomadic hordes or by nuclear-missile sites, but it also launched them on their relentless drive eastwards and southwards into Asia, and eventually collision with the British in India.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "military",
          "military"
        ],
        [
          "isolation",
          "isolation"
        ],
        [
          "blockade",
          "blockade"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(military) The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "war"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈsɜː(ɹ)kəlmənt/"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "alt",
      "lang": "Southern Altai",
      "lang_code": "alt",
      "roman": "kurču",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "word": "курчу"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "lang_code": "be",
      "roman": "akružénnje",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "акружэ́нне"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "obkrăžénie",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "обкръже́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "bāowéi",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "word": "包圍 /包围"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "obklíčení"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "word": "ympyröinti"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Umzingelung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Umzingeln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Einkesseln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Einkesselung"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "lang_code": "el",
      "roman": "peritrigýrisma",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "περιτριγύρισμα"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ほうい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "hōi",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "word": "包囲"
    },
    {
      "alt": "包圍",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
      "roman": "powi",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "word": "포위"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Māori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "word": "whiwhinga"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Māori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "word": "taiāwhiotanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Māori",
      "lang_code": "mi",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "word": "ponitakatanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "okrążenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "încercuire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "okružénije",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "окруже́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "lang_code": "sk",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "obkľúčenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "word": "kuşatma"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "word": "kuşatılma"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "otóčennja",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ото́чення"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "lang_code": "cy",
      "sense": "act of encircling",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "amgylchyniad"
    },
    {
      "code": "alt",
      "lang": "Southern Altai",
      "lang_code": "alt",
      "roman": "kurču",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "word": "курчу"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "lang_code": "hy",
      "roman": "šrǰapʻakum",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "word": "շրջափակում"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "bāowéiquān",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "word": "包围圈"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "word": "saarto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "word": "piiritys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "word": "motitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Umzingelung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Umzingeln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Einkesselung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Einkesseln"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "gherāv",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "घेराव"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "lang_code": "lv",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ielenkums"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "otoczenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "încercuire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "înconjurare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "okružénije",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "окруже́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "word": "kuşatma"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "otóčennja",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ото́чення"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "lang_code": "cy",
      "sense": "isolation of a target",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "amgylchyniad"
    }
  ],
  "word": "encirclement"
}

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