What's The Definition Of Dike?
[n] a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
[n] offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
[v] enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Dike: butch |
dam |
dyke |
dyke |
dyke |
levee
Related Terms | Find terms related to Dike: abatis |
abysm |
abyss |
advanced work |
alley |
alleyway |
aqueduct |
arch dam |
arroyo |
arterial |
arterial highway |
arterial street |
artery |
artificial lake |
Autobahn |
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 |
US highway |
vallation |
valley |
vallum |
vein |
void |
volcanic lake |
wadi |
wall |
water hole |
water pocket |
weir |
well |
wicket dam |
work |
wrinkle |
wynd
See Also | Aswan Dam |
Aswan High Dam |
barrier |
enclose |
gay woman |
High Dam |
Hoover Dam |
inclose |
lesbian |
milldam |
shut in |
weir
Dike In Webster's Dictionary
\Dike\, n. [OE. dic, dike, diche, ditch, AS. d?c dike,
ditch; akin to D. dijk dike, G. deich, and prob. teich pond,
Icel. d?ki dike, ditch, Dan. dige; perh. akin to Gr. ? (for
?) wall, and even E. dough; or perh. to Gr. ? pool, marsh.
Cf. {Ditch}.]
1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. --Ray.
2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . .
Shut out the turbulent tides. --Longfellow.
3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]
4. (Geol.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an
intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures
in the original strata.
\Dike\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Diked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Diking}.] [OE. diken, dichen, AS. d[=i]cian to dike. See
{Dike}.]
1. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure
with a bank.
2. To drain by a dike or ditch.
\Dike\, v. i.
To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.]
He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. --Chaucer.
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