spike
(noun) sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes; “spikes provide greater traction”
spike
(noun) a large stout nail; “they used spikes to fasten the rails to a railroad tie”
spike, spindle
(noun) any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object; “the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order”
spike
(noun) a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal); “one of the spikes impaled him”
spike
(noun) a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
spike
(noun) each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves); “the second baseman sharpened his spikes before every game”; “golfers’ spikes damage the putting greens”
spike
(noun) a transient variation in voltage or current
spike
(noun) a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline; “the seismograph showed a sharp spike in response to the temblor”
spike
(noun) (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
ear, spike, capitulum
(noun) fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
spike
(verb) manifest a sharp increase; “the voltage spiked”
spike, lace, fortify
(verb) add alcohol to (beverages); “the punch is spiked!”
spike, spike out
(verb) bring forth a spike or spikes; “my hyacinths and orchids are spiking now”
spike
(verb) secure with spikes
transfix, impale, empale, spike
(verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point; “impale a shrimp on a skewer”
spike
(verb) stand in the way of
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Spike
A male nickname.
• Sipek, kepis, kipes, pikes
spike (plural spikes)
A sort of very large nail.
A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
An ear of corn or grain.
(botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
(informal, mostly, in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
A sharp peak in a graph.
A surge in power or in the price of a commodity etc.
The long, narrow part of a high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
Synonym: spindle
(volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
(zoology) An adolescent male deer.
(slang, historical) The casual ward of a workhouse.
Spike lavender.
(music, lutherie) synonym of endpin.
• (botany: kind of inflorescence): catkin, raceme, cluster, corymb, umbel
spike (third-person singular simple present spikes, present participle spiking, simple past and past participle spiked)
To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
To set or furnish with spikes.
To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
To fix on a spike.
(figurative, journalism) To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
To increase sharply.
To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
To add a small amount of one substance to another.
(volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
(military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
(football slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
• (volleyball): attack, hit
• Sipek, kepis, kipes, pikes
Source: Wiktionary
Spike, n. Etym: [Akin to LG. spiker, spieker, a large nail, D. spijker, Sw. spik, Dan. spiger, Icel. spik; all perhaps from L. spica a point, an ear of grain; but in the sense of nail more likely akin to E. spoke of a wheel. Cf. Spine.]
1. A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
2. Anything resembling such a nail in shape. He wears on his head the corona radiata . . . ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun. Addison.
3. An ear of corn or grain.
4. (Bot.)
Definition: A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis. Spike grass (Bot.), either of two tall perennial American grasses (Uniola paniculata, and U. latifolia) having broad leaves and large flattened spikelets.
– Spike rush. (Bot.) See under Rush.
– Spike shell (Zoöl.), any pteropod of the genus Styliola having a slender conical shell.
– Spike team, three horses, or a horse and a yoke of oxen, harnessed together, a horse leading the oxen or the span. [U.S.]
Spike, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spiked; p. pr. & vb. n. Spiking.]
1. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
2. To set or furnish with spikes.
3. To fix on a spike. [R.] Young.
4. To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
Spike, n. Etym: [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard.] (Bot.)
Definition: Spike lavender. See Lavender. Oil of spike (Chem.), a colorless or yellowish aromatic oil extracted from the European broad-leaved lavender, or aspic (Lavendula Spica), used in artist's varnish and in veterinary medicine. It is often adulterated with oil of turpentine, which it much resembles.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
