What's the difference between butch and dike?

Butch


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
  • (2) Mickelson's coach, Butch Harmon, was reduced to tears.
  • (3) Station commander Butch Wilmore used a robot arm to grab the capsule and its 5,000 pounds (2,300kg) of precious cargo, as the craft soared more than 260 miles (420km) above the Mediterranean.
  • (4) Recent research suggests that butch-femme role playing in lesbian couples has diminished and been replaced with androgynous attitudes and behaviors.
  • (5) She always had a butch identity, but couldn't express it as a girl in the 1980s.
  • (6) And I distinctly remember seeing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which turned me on to Robert Redford and probably led to me the 70s version of Gatsby .
  • (7) Copyright: AK Summers The idea for Pregnant Butch came when she was first thinking about having a baby – her son, Franklin, is now 10.
  • (8) "When you're a butch, you want the way you look to be recognised as intentional," she says.
  • (9) The Johnny Depp western The Lone Ranger has attracted ire from campaigners over its addition of a prosthetic cleft lip to actor William Fichtner's face, to enhance the "evil" qualities of his outlaw killer character Butch Cavendish.
  • (10) The Stonewall uprising was led by drag queens but the first punch was thrown by a butch lesbian.
  • (11) "Plus it had those elements of fantasy - I was brought up on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Jesse James.
  • (12) Because only the inactive monomeric form of ButChE contains free sulfhydryl groups, it is postulated that MMH combines covalently with the sulfur, preventing formation of active enzyme.
  • (13) The memory of this woman's distended belly resurfaced when Summers was contemplating pregnancy, reviving adolescent fears that butchness was synonymous with ugliness.
  • (14) Take The L Word : the drama about lesbians ran for six seasons, but faced criticisms over not including enough butch characters, for example.
  • (15) But the flipside was that I often felt I had lost my butchness.
  • (16) Pregnant Butch is her first full-length graphic book.
  • (17) Sothcott said the character of Matron, played by Hattie Jacques in 1967’s similarly titled Carry On Doctor and 1969’s Carry On Again Doctor, would now be portrayed as a “butch gay” man.
  • (18) A ll my preconceptions about Mexican food were blown out of the water on my first trip to the country, when I discovered a cuisine that offers everything from butch street food to incredibly refined dishes, from hearty food like grandmother’s mole to delicate crab soups.
  • (19) Stone Butch Blues, her influential first novel , considers the difficulties of lesbian and transgender life in the second half of the 20th century.
  • (20) Finally, like Paul Newman and Robert Redford at the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , they broke cover, and dashed to their equipment, all guns blazing.

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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