dike (pluraldikes)
- (chiefly US)Alternative spelling ofdyke:ditch;embankment;waterway; etc.
1994,John H. Makin,Norman J. Ornstein,Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What We Can Do about It, New York, NY:Times Books,→ISBN, page52:In 1574, the duke of Alva laid siege to Leiden to gain control of Holland's most beautiful and prosperous city. To relieve the siege, William of Orange and his followers opened the city's protectivedikes to flush out—literally—the surrounding Spanish forces.
dike (third-person singular simple presentdikes,present participlediking,simple past and past participlediked)
- (chiefly US)Alternative spelling ofdyke: todig aditch; toraise anearthwork; etc.
1996 September 27, Michael Miner, “WVON Won't Take the Bait”, inThe Chicago Reader[1]:Lakeside water-filtration plants, an 11,000-acrediked 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, “Ecology: A True-Blue Vision for the Danube”, inScience[2], volume294, number5546,→DOI, pages1444–1447:
Of uncertain etymology, first attested in mid-19th century Virginia. Possibly a variant ofdeck anddeck out or influenced by them.
dike (third-person singular simple presentdikes,present participlediking,simple past and past participlediked)
- (US dialect slang, obsolete) To bewelldressed.
dike (pluraldikes)
- Alternative form ofdeck:(US dialect slang, obsolete) Awell-dressedman.
- Synonyms:dapperling,macaroni,toff;see alsoThesaurus:dandy
- (US dialect slang, obsolete)Formalwear orotherfashionabledress.
- Alternative form ofdyke,Alternative form ofdeck:(slang, usually derogatory) amasculinewoman; alesbian.
- Oxford English Dictionary. "dike,n.² andv.²".
- Oxford English Dictionary. "dike | dyke,n.³".
dike
- thickly
dike
- dog
FromOld Norsedíki, fromProto-Germanic*dīkiją, fromProto-Indo-European*dʰeygʷ-. Cognate withEnglishdike,ditch.
dike n
- ditch; a smallcanal, forirrigation ordrainage
Han körde idiket med sin nya bil.- He went off the road with (ditched) his new car.
The phrase "köra i diket" (to ditch) is used also when there's no ditch.
Borrowed fromSpanishdique, fromDutchdijk.
dike (Baybayin spellingᜇᜒᜃᜒ)
- dike (US);dyke
- Synonyms:saplad,prinsa
- “dike”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph,2018
