dike 音标拼音: [d'ɑɪk]
n . 堤防
vt . 筑堤提防
堤防筑堤提防
dike n 1 : (
slang )
offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine [
synonym : {
butch }, {
dike }, {
dyke }]
2 :
a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea [
synonym : {
dam }, {
dike }, {
dyke }]
v 1 :
enclose with a dike ; "
dike the land to protect it from water " [
synonym : {
dike }, {
dyke }]
Dike \
Dike \,
v .
i .
To work as a ditcher ;
to dig . [
Obs .]
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1913 Webster ]
He would thresh and thereto dike and delve . --
Chaucer .
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1913 Webster ]
Dike \
Dike \ (
d [
imac ]),
n . [
OE .
dic ,
dike ,
diche ,
ditch ,
AS .
d [
imac ]
c dike ,
ditch ;
akin to D .
dijk dike ,
G .
deich ,
and prob .
teich pond ,
Icel .
d [
imac ]
ki dike ,
ditch ,
Dan .
dige ;
perh .
akin to Gr .
tei ^
chos (
for qei ^
chos )
wall ,
and even E .
dough ;
or perh .
to Gr .
ti ^
fos pool ,
marsh .
Cf . {
Ditch }.]
1 .
A ditch ;
a channel for water made by digging .
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1913 Webster ]
Little channels or dikes cut to every bed . --
Ray .
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2 .
An embankment to prevent inundations ;
a levee .
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Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . .
Shut out the turbulent tides . --
Longfellow .
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3 .
A wall of turf or stone . [
Scot .]
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4 . (
Geol .)
A wall -
like mass of mineral matter ,
usually an intrusion of igneous rocks ,
filling up rents or fissures in the original strata .
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1913 Webster ]
Dike \
Dike \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Diked };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
Diking }.] [
OE .
diken ,
dichen ,
AS .
d [
imac ]
cian to dike .
See {
Dike }.]
1 .
To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank ;
to secure with a bank .
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1913 Webster ]
2 .
To drain by a dike or ditch .
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346 Moby Thesaurus words for "
dike ":
Autobahn ,
US highway ,
abatis ,
abysm ,
abyss ,
advanced work ,
alley ,
alleyway ,
aqueduct ,
arch dam ,
arroyo ,
arterial ,
arterial highway ,
arterial street ,
artery ,
artificial lake ,
autoroute ,
autostrada ,
avenue ,
backstop ,
balistraria ,
bamboo curtain ,
bank ,
banquette ,
bar ,
barbed -
wire entanglement ,
barbican ,
barrage ,
barricade ,
barrier ,
bartizan ,
bastion ,
battlement ,
bayou lake ,
bear -
trap dam ,
beaver dam ,
belt highway ,
blind alley ,
boom ,
bore ,
boulevard ,
box canyon ,
breach ,
break ,
breakwater ,
breastwork ,
brick wall ,
buffer ,
bulkhead ,
bulwark ,
burrow ,
bypass ,
byway ,
camino real ,
canal ,
canalization ,
canalize ,
canyon ,
carriageway ,
carve ,
casemate ,
causeway ,
causey ,
cavity ,
chamfer ,
channel ,
chap ,
chasm ,
chaussee ,
check ,
cheval -
de -
frise ,
chimney ,
chink ,
chisel ,
chute ,
circumferential ,
circumvallation ,
cistern ,
cleft ,
cleuch ,
close ,
clough ,
cofferdam ,
col ,
contravallation ,
corduroy road ,
corrugate ,
coulee ,
couloir ,
counterscarp ,
country rock ,
county road ,
court ,
crack ,
cranny ,
crescent ,
crevasse ,
crevice ,
crimp ,
cul -
de -
sac ,
curtain ,
cut ,
cwm ,
dado ,
dam ,
dead water ,
dead -
end street ,
defense ,
defile ,
dell ,
delve ,
demibastion ,
deposit ,
dig ,
dig out ,
dirt road ,
ditch ,
donga ,
draw ,
drawbridge ,
dredge ,
drill ,
drive ,
driveway ,
earthwork ,
embankment ,
enclosure ,
engrave ,
entanglement ,
entrenchment ,
escarp ,
escarpment ,
etang ,
excavate ,
excavation ,
expressway ,
farm pond ,
fault ,
fence ,
fieldwork ,
fishpond ,
fissure ,
flaw ,
flume ,
flute ,
fortalice ,
fortification ,
fosse ,
fracture ,
freeway ,
freshwater lake ,
furrow ,
gangue ,
gap ,
gape ,
gash ,
gate ,
glacial lake ,
glacis ,
goffer ,
gorge ,
gouge ,
gouge out ,
gravel road ,
gravity dam ,
groin ,
groove ,
grub ,
gulch ,
gulf ,
gully ,
gutter ,
ha -
ha ,
highroad ,
highway ,
highways and byways ,
hole ,
hydraulic -
fill dam ,
incise ,
incision ,
inland sea ,
interstate highway ,
iron curtain ,
jam ,
jetty ,
joint ,
kennel ,
kloof ,
lagoon ,
laguna ,
lake ,
lakelet ,
landlocked water ,
lane ,
leak ,
leaping weir ,
levee ,
linn ,
local road ,
loch ,
lode ,
lodestuff ,
logjam ,
loophole ,
lough ,
lower ,
lunette ,
machicolation ,
main drag ,
main road ,
mantelet ,
matrix ,
mere ,
merlon ,
mews ,
milldam ,
millpond ,
millpool ,
mine ,
mineral deposit ,
moat ,
mole ,
motorway ,
mound ,
notch ,
nullah ,
nyanza ,
opening ,
ore bed ,
outwork ,
oxbow lake ,
palisade ,
parados ,
parapet ,
parkway ,
pass ,
passage ,
pave ,
paved road ,
pay dirt ,
pike ,
place ,
plank road ,
plash ,
pleat ,
plow ,
pond ,
pondlet ,
pool ,
portcullis ,
postern gate ,
primary highway ,
private road ,
puddle ,
quarry ,
rabbet ,
rampart ,
ravelin ,
ravine ,
redan ,
redoubt ,
rent ,
reservoir ,
rifle ,
rift ,
right -
of -
way ,
rime ,
ring road ,
road ,
roadbed ,
roadblock ,
roadway ,
rock -
fill dam ,
route nationale ,
row ,
royal road ,
rupture ,
rut ,
salina ,
sally port ,
salt pond ,
sap ,
scarp ,
scissure ,
sconce ,
scoop ,
scoop out ,
score ,
scrabble ,
scrape ,
scratch ,
seam ,
seawall ,
secondary road ,
shoot ,
shovel ,
shutter dam ,
sink ,
slit ,
slot ,
spade ,
speedway ,
split ,
stagnant water ,
standing water ,
state highway ,
still water ,
stock ,
stockade ,
stone wall ,
streak ,
street ,
striate ,
sump ,
sunk fence ,
superhighway ,
tank ,
tarn ,
tenaille ,
terrace ,
thoroughfare ,
through street ,
thruway ,
tidal pond ,
toll road ,
township road ,
trench ,
trough ,
tunnel ,
turnpike ,
vallation ,
valley ,
vallum ,
vein ,
void ,
volcanic lake ,
wadi ,
wall ,
water hole ,
water pocket ,
weir ,
well ,
wicket dam ,
work ,
wrinkle ,
wynd
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DIKE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of DIKE is an artificial watercourse : ditch
Dike (mythology) - Wikipedia In Greek mythology, Dike or Dice, [1] ( ˈdaɪkiː or ˈdaɪsiː ; [2] Ancient Greek: Δίκη, romanized: Díkē, lit 'justice, custom') sometimes also called Dicaeosyne (Ancient Greek: Δικαιοσύνη, romanized: Dikaiosúnē, lit 'righteousness, justice'), is the goddess of justice and the spirit of moral order and fair judgement as a transcendent unive
Dikes - United States Army Dikes, sometimes referred to as wing dams or spur dikes, are structures placed in a river to redirect the river's own energy to provide a variety of effects
Dike - definition of dike by The Free Dictionary 1 an embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river 2 ditch 3 a bank of earth formed of material being excavated 4 causeway 5 an obstacle; barrier 6
What does dike mean? - Definitions. net A dike is a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea, a river, or other bodies of water It can also refer to a sheet of rock that formed in a fracture in a pre-existing rock body, in geological terms
dike - definition and meaning - Wordnik noun An embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods noun Chiefly British A low wall, often of sod, dividing or enclosing lands noun A barrier blocking a passage, especially for protection noun A raised causeway noun A ditch; a channel noun Geology A long mass of igneous rock that cuts across the structure of adjacent rock
dike - Wiktionary, the free dictionary dike (third-person singular simple present dikes, present participle diking, simple past and past participle diked) ( chiefly US ) Alternative form of dyke : to dig a ditch ; to raise an earthwork ; etc