dike

1 offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine [syn: butch, dyke]

2 a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea [syn: dam, dyke, levee] v : enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water" [syn: dyke]

see dyke

English

Alternative spellings

• dyke

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪk

Etymology

• Old English dīċ (the source of both 'ditch' and 'dike', the southern English 'c' being soft while the northern was hard).

Noun

1. The northern English form of ditch.
2. A ditch and bank running alongside each other (the excavation was the soruce of the material of the embankment.)
3. A barrier of stone or earth used to hold back water and prevent flooding.
4. A lesbian, especially a manly or unattractive lesbian.
5. A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.

Synonyms

barrier of stone or earth

• bank
• embankment
• dam
• levee
• breakwater
• floodwall
• seawall

long, narrow excavation

• Ditch

Antonyms

• dune

Related terms

• ditch
• dig

Translations

entrenchment

• Dutch: sloot
• French: fossé
• German: Graben
• Italian: fosso
• Portuguese: trincheira

For translations in the sense of "lesbian", see dyke.

See also

• dough
• duck
• duct
• thick

Esperanto

Adverb

1. thickly

Swedish

Noun

sv-noun-n dike

1. ditch; A small body of flowing water in a constructed channel, for irrigation or drainage.
2. The area next to the road.

   Han körde i diket med sin nya bil. = He went off the road with his new car.

See also

• köra i diket
• dikeskörning
• utdikning
• dika ut

Dyke or Dike may refer to:

• Dike (construction), either a long wall or bank built to keep out the sea or enclose or separate land, or the ditch from which the material was dug, or the combination of the two
• Dike (geology), a long mass of minerals, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata
• Dyke (slang), a slang term, sometimes offensive, for a woman who is attracted to other women, a lesbian
• Dikes, a term for diagonal pliers, a hand tool used by electricians and others

Dyke or Dykes is the name of:

• Dykes (surname), a British surname found particularly in northern England.
• van Dyke, a surname of Dutch origin
• Greg Dyke, former Director General of the BBC and current Chairman of Brentford Football Club
• William D. Dyke
• Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet
• Dyke Baronets
• Hugh Dykes, The Lord Dykes, a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
• Keilen Dykes, American football player
• John Bacchus Dykes, an English clergyman and hymnist
• John and Jennie Dyke, American aircraft designers

Dyke or Dike may refer to the following places or features:

• Dike, Iowa, Small town located in eastern Iowa
• Dyke, Lincolnshire
• Car Dyke, a Roman boundary ditch in Eastern England
• Offa's Dyke, historic earthwork dividing Mercia and Wales
• Wansdyke (earthwork), divides old Wessex from the lands south west of it
• Devil's Dyke, one of several ancient embankments or ditches (or both):
  • Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire
  • Devil's Dyke, Hertfordshire
  • Devil's Dyke, Sussex
  • Devil's Dyke in Nithsdale, Scotland

Dike may also refer to:

• Dike (mythology), the Greek goddess of moral justice, one of the three second generation Horae
• 99 Dike, an asteroid
• D-Yikes!, an episode of South Park

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