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Synonyms for flank

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for flank

one of two or more contrasted parts or places identified by its location with respect to a center

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The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Synonyms for flank

the side of military or naval formation

a subfigure consisting of a side of something

a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg

the side between ribs and hipbone

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be located at the sides of something or somebody

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Radiofrequency ablation was performed on one flank only and treatment effects were assessed on the contralateral flank.
It was off a Juan Querro free-kick from the right flank that he rose to beat his marker and lodge his header into the back of the net.
The army men engaged in fierce clashes with ISIL in Rasm al-Hatiti flank and captured Wadi Shatayeb Suleiman, Tal Lathawi, Souh al-Majidi, Arazi Joweis and Wadi al-Sahal regions.
Riyaz reported that at week 12 follow-up, both cryolipolysis and HIFU had significantly reduced fat in the flanks, compared with baseline (P = .0007 and P = .0341, respectively), as measured by diagnostic ultrasound.
Knowing which flanks are in the neighbourhood (based on the number of teeth (Fig.
Further tightening ensures that the thread crest flatten out until the flanks also make metal-to-metal contact.
You only have to look back to the game at Wembley to see how ineffective the former Peter-borough man can be when he's farmed out on to the flank.
Conventional warfare has for long been familiar with what has come to be known as a "pincer movement." Described first by Sun Tzu, in his masterpiece "The Art of War," it calls for the attacking army to encircle the enemy from both flanks. This is the sort of approach we need to take with the terrorists.
Firefighters mopped up an area 300 feet into the interior of the fire along its northwest, northeast and eastern flanks. They laid hose on more than 37 miles on the west flank in preparation for mop up and strengthened the bulldozer line on the south flank.
Whenever I have seen Newcastle, Jonas Gutierrez has made a big impression with Damien Duff on the flanks so it is a bit of shame that Hibbert is unavailable as he would have been perfect to combat that threat.
The cylindrical worm having the flanks helical surfaces similar to helicoids of the first specie is named convolute worm of the first specie.
Most importantly, the El Oso Zone drilling, and in particular the final two holes of the 2008 drill program, CG-70B and 71B, show that Cobre Grande appears to host a porphyry molybdenum deposit with copper skarns on both the eastern and western flanks. The known resource within the Main Zone and the recent discovery on the eastern side of El Oso, are completely within the eastern flanking skarn.
The lack of width has cost Ian Dowie's team of late, with Jobi McAnuff's pace sorely missed on the flanks after he began the season on fire.
One of the fishermen sharpened his knife on a rock from the beach and started to carve into the manta ray like a Thanksgiving turkey, cutting off two flanks from each side of its body.
A cutline in the same newspaper reads, "A statue of Colonel Seth Warren of the Green Mountain Boys flanks the Bennington Battle Monument...." According to American Heritage Dictionary IV, to flank is to guard the left or right side of a structure, an endless task at this tall, four-sided stone tower.