dike
see also: Dike
Noun
Dike
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Dike
Noun
dike (plural dikes)
- (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke#English|dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.
dike (dikes, present participle diking; past and past participle diked)
- (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke#English|dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.
- 1996 September 27, Michael Miner, "WVON Won't Take the Bait ↗" in The Chicago Reader:
- Lakeside water-filtration plants, an 11,000-acre diked airport east of 55th Street, slash-and-bulldoze highway projects through Jackson and Lincoln parks—these and many another grandiose project leapt from the sketchbooks of city planners.
- 2001 November 16, Karen F. Schmidt, "[http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/294/5546/1444|doi=10.1126/science.294.5546.1444 Ecology: A True-Blue Vision for the Danube]" in Science, Vol. 294, No. 5546, pp. 1444-1447:
- 1996 September 27, Michael Miner, "WVON Won't Take the Bait ↗" in The Chicago Reader:
dike (dikes, present participle diking; past and past participle diked)
Noundike (plural dikes)
- (US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
- (US dialect slang, obsolete) Formalwear or other fashionable dress.
dike (plural dikes)
Dike
Pronunciation Proper noun
- Surname for someone living near a dike.
- (Greek god) The goddess/personification of justice, order and judgement and one of the Horae. She is a daughter of Zeus and Themis, and her sisters are Eirene and Eunomia. Her Roman counterpart is Justitia.
- (astronomy) 99 Dike, a main belt asteroid.
- (poetic) justice, order and judgement.
- Adikia
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