dam, dike, dyke
(noun) a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
butch, dike, dyke
(noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
dike, dyke
(verb) enclose with a dike; “dike the land to protect it from water”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Dyke (countable and uncountable, plural Dykes)
A village in Lincolnshire, England.
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Dyke is the 6704th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5037 individuals. Dyke is most common among White (90.51%) individuals.
• E.D. Ky.
dyke (plural dykes) (British spelling)
(historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
(dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
(dialect) Any watercourse.
(dialect) Any small body of water.
(obsolete) Any hollow dug into the ground.
(now, chiefly, Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
An embankment formed by the creation of a ditch.
(obsolete) A city wall.
(now, chiefly, Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
(dialect) Any fence or hedge.
An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
(figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
A beaver's dam.
(dialect) A jetty; a pier.
A raised causeway.
(dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
(geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
• (long, narrow excavation): ditch, trench, fosse
• (small body of water): puddle, pond, pool, lakelet, mere
• (any hollow): den, cave, hole, pit
• (any embankment): bank, embankment, earthwork
• (barrier of stone or earth): bank, embankment, dam, levee, breakwater, floodwall, seawall
dyke (third-person singular simple present dykes, present participle dyking, simple past and past participle dyked)
(transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
(transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
(transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
(transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
(transitive) To scour a watercourse.
(transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
dyke (plural dykes)
(slang, usually pejorative) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
This term for a lesbian is often derogatory (or taken as such) when used by heterosexuals but is also used by some lesbians to refer to themselves positively. See reclaimed word and reappropriation for discussion.
• See female homosexual
• E.D. Ky.
Source: Wiktionary
Dyke, n.
Definition: See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
