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Verb
/dīk/,
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dykes, plural; dikes, plural;
  1. Provide (land) with a wall or embankment to prevent flooding

Noun
  1. A long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea

  2. A low wall or earthwork serving as a boundary or defense
    • - Offa's Dike
  3. A causeway

  4. An intrusion of igneous rock cutting across existing strata

  5. A ditch or watercourse

  1. butch: (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
  2. enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water"
  3. dam: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
  4. A levee, levée, dike (or dyke), embankment, floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial slope or wall to regulate water levels. It is usually earthen and often parallel to the course of a river or the coast.
  5. A dike or dyke in geology is a type of sheet intrusion referring to any geologic body that cuts discordantly across * planar wall rock structures, such as bedding or foliation * massive rock formations, like igneous/magmatic intrusions and salt diapirs.
  6. In ancient Greek culture, Dikē (Greek: Δίκη, English translation: "justice") was the spirit of moral order and fair judgement based on immemorial custom, in the sense of socially enforced norms and conventional rules. According to Hesiod (Theogony, l. ...
  7. In Greek mythology the Horae or Hours (Ὧραι, Hōrai, "seasons") were three goddesses controlling orderly life. They were daughters of Zeus and Themis, half-sisters to the Moirae. ...
  8. 99 Dike is a quite large and dark main-belt asteroid. Dike was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on May 28, 1868. It was his first asteroid discovery. It is named after Dike, the Greek goddess of moral justice.
  9. (Dikes (tool)) Diagonal pliers (or wire cutters or diagonal cutting pliers) are pliers intended for the cutting of wire (they are generally not used to grab or turn anything). ...
  10. The goddess personifying the principle of justice
  11. The northern English form of ditch; A ditch and bank running alongside each other; A barrier of stone or earth used to hold back water and prevent flooding; A lesbian, especially a manly or unattractive lesbian; A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner ...
  12. A topographic surname for someone living near a dike
  13. (DIKES): walls or dams built to hold back water
  14. Bank of earth or stone used to form a barrier, frequently and confusingly interchanged with levee. A dike restrains water within an area that normally is flooded. See levee.
  15. A low embankment, usually constructed to close up low areas of the reservoir rim and thus limit the extent of the reservoir. Embankment for restraining a river or a stream. Embankments which contain water within a given course. Usually applied to dams built to protect land from flooding. ...
  16. An embankment to confine or control water. Often built along the banks of a river to prevent overflow of lowlands: a levee.
  17. A barrier constructed to control or confine hazardous substances and prevent them from entering sewers, ditches, streams, or other flowing waters.
  18. A raised bank, typically earthen, constructed along a waterway to impound the water and to prevent flooding.
  19. A raised canal bank which prevents flooding.
  20. The intrusion of magma into a crack that cuts across existing rocks.
  21. a kind of planar igneous intrusion that cuts across layers or bedding in rocks, or cuts unlayered rock. Many dikes are aplites or pegmatites.
  22. a bank, usually of earth, built to control or confine water
  23. 1.(noun. diyk) hedge, e.g. If yur cannut fin a yat ter lowp, lowp a dike. = If you are having trouble locating a suitable gate for your jumping pleasure, perhaps you would be more succesful looking for a hedgerow to jump.
  24. A low wall that can act as a barrier to prevent a spill from spreading.