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dike 音標拼音: [d'ɑɪk] n. 堤防
vt. 筑堤提防 堤防築堤提防 dike n 1: ( slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine [ synonym: { butch}, { dike}, { dyke}] 2: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea [ synonym: { dam}, { dike}, { dyke}] v 1: enclose with a dike; " dike the land to protect it from water" [ synonym: { dike}, { dyke}] Dike \ Dike\, v. i. To work as a ditcher; to dig. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. -- Ray. [ 1913 Webster] 2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. [ 1913 Webster] Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A wall of turf or stone. [ Scot.] [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Geol.) A wall- like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To drain by a dike or ditch. [ 1913 Webster] 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 |
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