What is the meaning of DIKE. Phrases containing DIKE
See meanings and uses of DIKE!Slangs & AI meanings
hedgerow or foliated built-up area which divided rice paddies; also, a rise in the ground such as dikes or a dirt parapet around fortifications. Pg. 504
diconal or dipipanone hydrochloride
also dike n Used as a disparaging term for a lesbian.
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v. i.
To work as a ditcher; to dig.
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n.
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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The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
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A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.
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A dike a marsh or fen.
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A dike of piles in the sea, a river, etc., to check the approach of an enemy.
v. t.
To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up; as, to levy a mill, dike, ditch, a nuisance, etc.
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v. t.
To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
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A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores.
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A wall of turf or stone.
v. t.
To drain by a dike or ditch.
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A ditcher.
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A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
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An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
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See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
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Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
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One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime.
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