What's the difference between bike and dike?

Bike


Definition:

  • (n.) A nest of wild bees, wasps, or ants; a swarm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
  • (2) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
  • (3) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
  • (4) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (5) He was on more certain statistical ground when he said that, since 2010, more than half the bike deaths in London have happened when lorries turned left across cyclists.
  • (6) There weren't many people out on their bikes in Harrogate over the weekend: the weather was too poor even for hardy Yorkshire folk.
  • (7) Raj Janagam co-founded Cycle Chalao in 2009, and the project ran for a little over a year – between Mulund train station and a nearby college – with 30 bikes and a user base of around 750.
  • (8) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
  • (9) A camera located in Downing Street shows Mitchell leaving 9 Downing Street and approaching the main double gates on his bike at 19.36:14 and as he stops to talk to police officers, a woman crosses on the pavement proceeding towards Trafalgar Square.
  • (10) A " bike for the strike " event is scheduled in Oakland on Friday.
  • (11) Control data were compared to data derived from a simulated triathlon (0.8-km swim, 75-min bike, and 40-min run).
  • (12) Matthew Golby, prosecuting, said Antwi was part of a group which surrounded the police car off Brixton Hill and he was captured on CCTV aiming his bike at the car.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Passengers arriving at the main bus station can borrow a bike all day for free.
  • (14) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
  • (15) Visiting an exercise class, Mr Blair, without changing out of his suit, spent some minutes pedalling on an exercise bike for the benefit of cameramen.
  • (16) But the increase in people cycling does seem to be boosting bike awareness and challenging the car mentality.
  • (17) Cycling is a mainstream form of active transport and recreation, but the human trauma costs of bicycle riding are unacceptable,” said Tracey Gaudry, CEO of the Amy Gillett Foundation , a bike safety awareness group set up in honour of the Australian athlete who was killed in a cycling accident in Germany.
  • (18) A 2014 report by the US Public Interest Research Group found that young people were driving less , driving shorter distances and using more transit, biking and walking to get around.
  • (19) Then I tried out a fold-in-half bike called the Bickerton .
  • (20) Bike Nation: How Cycling Can Save the World by Peter Walker is out now.

Dike


Definition:

  • (n.) A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
  • (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
  • (n.) A wall of turf or stone.
  • (n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
  • (v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
  • (v. t.) To drain by a dike or ditch.
  • (v. i.) To work as a ditcher; to dig.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Great Garuda development that was supposed to take flight from that dike could be grounded even longer.
  • (2) Low point: The club lost two forwards – Bright Dike and Brent Richards – to season-ending knee injuries during the preseason.
  • (3) Lymnaea truncatula is not found on or at the seaward side of the dike, whereas it is abundant all over the marshland.
  • (4) Military specialists blew up dikes in central Pakistan to divert swollen rivers and save cities from raging floods that have killed hundreds of people.
  • (5) Between 1905 and 1971, over 2 million tons of residue from chromite ore processing was generated in Hudson County, New Jersey, of which substantial amounts were used as fill and tank diking.
  • (6) Pilanesberg is located in one of the world’s largest and best preserved alkaline ring dike complexes – a rare circular feature that emerged from the subterranean plumbing of an ancient volcano.
  • (7) He says building an outer sea wall and manmade islands would create greater pollution and sedimentation as waters are trapped inside the dike, rather than being flushed out to sea.
  • (8) The demonstration - one of the biggest in a series of recent NIMBY rallies against potential polluters in China - was sparked by the news last week that a protective dike around the Fujia factory in the Jinzhou industrial complex had been breached by rain and high waves ahead of the approach of Typhoon Muifa.
  • (9) A protective dike at Torhi, near Sukkur, burst on Saturday.
  • (10) Ejim Dike, director of US Human Rights Network, added: “In addition to a legal response from the Department of Justice, there is a need for moral and political leadership from the executive branch, from Obama and Holder.
  • (11) Over two years, the management regimes of: 1) opening a southeast Florida salt marsh impoundment to the adjacent estuary with culverts through the dike, then, 2) passively retaining water with flapgate risers was studied to determine the effects on marsh flooding and resultant mosquito production.
  • (12) The high infection percentage among adult animals and the strikingly low frequency among slaughter lambs could be explained by the characteristic management system of the marshland: In summer the sheep graze the dike and the foreland on its seaward side, and in winter the animals graze in the marshland.
  • (13) At the heart of the proposals – with an estimated cost of as much as $40 billion – is a massive dike arcing 25 miles across Jakarta Bay which would create a vast manmade lagoon, with a new coastal megacity to be built around it on reclaimed land.
  • (14) The demonstration in Dalian – one of the biggest in a series of recent Nimby rallies against potential polluters in China – was sparked by the news last week that a protective dike around the Fujia factory, in the Jinzhou industrial complex, had been breached by rain and high waves as typhoon Muifa approached.
  • (15) We recorded the visual behavior of male and female horseshoe crabs in the vicinity of an object--a cement hemisphere (29.5 cm diameter) similar in size and shape to a female horseshoe crab--placed in a mating area near Mashnee Dike, Bourne, Massachusetts.

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