Dike

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dike \Dike\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Diked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Diking}.] [OE. diken, dichen, AS. d[imac]cian to dike. See
     {Dike}.]
     1. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure
        with a bank.
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     2. To drain by a dike or ditch.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dike \Dike\, v. i.
     To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.]
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           He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dike \Dike\ (d[imac]), n. [OE. dic, dike, diche, ditch, AS.
     d[imac]c dike, ditch; akin to D. dijk dike, G. deich, and
     prob. teich pond, Icel. d[imac]ki dike, ditch, Dan. dige;
     perh. akin to Gr. tei^chos (for qei^chos) wall, and even E.
     dough; or perh. to Gr. ti^fos pool, marsh. Cf. {Ditch}.]
     1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
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              Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. --Ray.
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     2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
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              Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . .
              Shut out the turbulent tides.         --Longfellow.
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     3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]
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     4. (Geol.) 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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dike
       n 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  346 Moby Thesaurus words for "dike":
     Autobahn, US highway, abatis, abysm, abyss, advanced work, alley,
     alleyway, aqueduct, arch dam, arroyo, arterial, arterial highway,
     arterial street, artery, artificial lake, autoroute, autostrada,
     avenue, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette,
     bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade,
     barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bayou lake, bear-trap dam,
     beaver dam, belt highway, blind alley, boom, bore, boulevard,
     box canyon, breach, break, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall,
     buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, burrow, bypass, byway, camino real,
     canal, canalization, canalize, canyon, carriageway, carve,
     casemate, causeway, causey, cavity, chamfer, channel, chap, chasm,
     chaussee, check, cheval-de-frise, chimney, chink, chisel, chute,
     circumferential, circumvallation, cistern, cleft, cleuch, close,
     clough, cofferdam, col, contravallation, corduroy road, corrugate,
     coulee, couloir, counterscarp, country rock, county road, court,
     crack, cranny, crescent, crevasse, crevice, crimp, cul-de-sac,
     curtain, cut, cwm, dado, dam, dead water, dead-end street, defense,
     defile, dell, delve, demibastion, deposit, dig, dig out, dirt road,
     ditch, donga, draw, drawbridge, dredge, drill, drive, driveway,
     earthwork, embankment, enclosure, engrave, entanglement,
     entrenchment, escarp, escarpment, etang, excavate, excavation,
     expressway, farm pond, fault, fence, fieldwork, fishpond, fissure,
     flaw, flume, flute, fortalice, fortification, fosse, fracture,
     freeway, freshwater lake, furrow, gangue, gap, gape, gash, gate,
     glacial lake, glacis, goffer, gorge, gouge, gouge out, gravel road,
     gravity dam, groin, groove, grub, gulch, gulf, gully, gutter,
     ha-ha, highroad, highway, highways and byways, hole,
     hydraulic-fill dam, incise, incision, inland sea,
     interstate highway, iron curtain, jam, jetty, joint, kennel, kloof,
     lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, lane, leak,
     leaping weir, levee, linn, local road, loch, lode, lodestuff,
     logjam, loophole, lough, lower, lunette, machicolation, main drag,
     main road, mantelet, matrix, mere, merlon, mews, milldam, millpond,
     millpool, mine, mineral deposit, moat, mole, motorway, mound,
     notch, nullah, nyanza, opening, ore bed, outwork, oxbow lake,
     palisade, parados, parapet, parkway, pass, passage, pave,
     paved road, pay dirt, pike, place, plank road, plash, pleat, plow,
     pond, pondlet, pool, portcullis, postern gate, primary highway,
     private road, puddle, quarry, rabbet, rampart, ravelin, ravine,
     redan, redoubt, rent, reservoir, rifle, rift, right-of-way, rime,
     ring road, road, roadbed, roadblock, roadway, rock-fill dam,
     route nationale, row, royal road, rupture, rut, salina, sally port,
     salt pond, sap, scarp, scissure, sconce, scoop, scoop out, score,
     scrabble, scrape, scratch, seam, seawall, secondary road, shoot,
     shovel, shutter dam, sink, slit, slot, spade, speedway, split,
     stagnant water, standing water, state highway, still water, stock,
     stockade, stone wall, streak, street, striate, sump, sunk fence,
     superhighway, tank, tarn, tenaille, terrace, thoroughfare,
     through street, thruway, tidal pond, toll road, township road,
     trench, trough, tunnel, turnpike, vallation, valley, vallum, vein,
     void, volcanic lake, wadi, wall, water hole, water pocket, weir,
     well, wicket dam, work, wrinkle, wynd
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  dike vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a
     computer or a subroutine from a program. A standard slogan is "When in
     doubt, dike it out". (The implication is that it is usually more
     effective to attack software problems by reducing complexity than by
     increasing it.) The word `dikes' is widely used among mechanics and
     engineers to mean `diagonal cutters', esp. the heavy-duty metal-cutting
     version; it also refers to a kind of wire-cutters used by electronics
     techs. To `dike something out' means to use such cutters to remove
     something. Indeed, the TMRC Dictionary defined dike as "to attack with
     dikes". Among hackers this term has been metaphorically extended to
     informational objects such as sections of code.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  dike
       
          To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a
          computer or a subroutine from a program.  A standard slogan is
          "When in doubt, dike it out".  (The implication is that it is
          usually more effective to attack software problems by reducing
          complexity than by increasing it.)  The word "dikes" is widely
          used among mechanics and engineers to mean "diagonal cutters",
          especially the heavy-duty metal-cutting version, but may also
          refer to a kind of wire-cutters used by electronics
          technicians.  To "dike something out" means to use such
          cutters to remove something.  Indeed, the TMRC Dictionary
          defined dike as "to attack with dikes".  Among hackers this
          term has been metaphorically extended to informational objects
          such as sections of code.
       
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From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Dike, IA (city, FIPS 21405)
    Location: 42.46310 N, 92.63014 W
    Population (1990): 875 (355 housing units)
    Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 50624
  Dike, TX
    Zip code(s): 75437

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Dike, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
     Population (2000):    944
     Housing Units (2000): 393
     Land area (2000):     1.304685 sq. miles (3.379118 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    1.304685 sq. miles (3.379118 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            21405
     Located within:       Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
     Location:             42.464706 N, 92.627688 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     50624
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Dike, IA
      Dike