flank has definitions from the fields of zoology,chemistry,food,military,mathematics,geometry
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[ verb ] be located at the sides of something or somebody

Used in print

(Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)

Flanked by marble urns and alabaster lamps , they seemed to be posing for a tribal portrait .

(Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)

Rocco_Vecchio - a perspiring , haggard Vecchio - was standing there , flanked by two men in the uniforms of armored transport guards .

Related terms

lie lie

2
[ noun ] (military) the side of military or naval formation

Synonyms

wing

Examples

"they attacked the enemy's right flank"

Related terms

formation military

3
[ noun ] (mathematics,geometry) a subfigure consisting of a side of something

Related terms

subfigure base hypotenuse

4
[ noun ] (chemistry,food) a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg

Related terms

cut_of_beef flank_steak

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[ noun ] (zoology) the side between ribs and hipbone

Related terms

body_part quadruped

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