(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.
Dime
Definition:
(n.) A silver coin of the United States, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.
Example Sentences:
(1) [pGlu5,MePhe8,-MeGly9]-substance P 5 - 11 (DiMe-C7), senktide and septide did not contract the aorta.
(2) Subcutaneous administration of ondansetron (GR38032) (0.001-0.3 mg kg-1), GR65630 (0.01 mg kg-1), ICS 205-930 (0.1 mg kg-1) and MDL 72222 (0.1 mg kg-1), inhibited the DiMe-C7-induced hyperactivity response.
(3) The interaction of DiME-SP with spinal cord SP receptors was evaluated initially in binding studies.
(4) On the other hand, in 2 neurones a response was exclusively evoked by DiMe-C7.
(5) Like PGE1, 16-diMe-PGE2 has a dual action on the intact canine pancreas (stimulation of enzymes and inhibition of volume and electrolytes), but is much more potent, has a prolonged action, and is active intraduodenally and intragastrically.
(6) The role of spinal cord substance P (SP) in regulating sympathetic outflow to the cardiovascular system was assessed with the stable active analog [pGlu5,MePhE8,MeGly9]-SP(5-11) (DiME-SP).
(7) The rapid dissociation of the compounds displaying antiglucocorticoid activity contrasted with the slow dissociation of DX diMe.
(8) Activities in this field have been enhanced by the interests of such health-related entities as the National Foundation-March of Dimes and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in these studies.
(9) Esterification of the carboxyl groups of meso-DMSA changes its coordination properties in that the two sulfur atoms of DiMe-meso-DMSA are used to coordinate with Hg2+, Cd2+, or Pb2+.
(10) The study was conducted in a blinded manner and consisted of 50 attempts equally divided among pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and controls (no coin).
(11) I will not ask students or seniors or middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people making over $250,000 aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes."
(12) He is a reminder that being black in America, no matter how light or dark skinned you are, means shielding yourself against the inevitable arbitrary assessment of your worth at the drop of a dime.
(13) Rats received one microinjection (0.5 microliter) of SP (0.74 pmol), of the N-terminal fragment SP (1-7) and the C-terminal fragment analog DiMe-C7 (each at doses of 0.074, 0.74, and 74 pmol), or vehicle (phosphate-buffered saline; PBS).
(14) In contrast, infusions of DiMe-C7 or SP into the lateral ventricles or microinfusions of SP into VTA failed to elicit increases in DOPAC levels in forebrain.
(15) Treatment of the hepatocytes with dithiothreitol, following 4 min exposure of the cells to 3,5-diMe NAPQI, reversed the quinone imine-induced changes in nucleotide levels and reduced the cytotoxicity.
(16) Saturable, high-affinity binding of [125I]Bolton-Hunter-SP to rat spinal cord membranes was dose-dependently inhibited by DiME-SP (IC50 = 1.5 microM).
(17) Microinfusion of the metabolically stable substance P (SP) agonist, [pGlu5,MePhe8,Sar9]-SP5-11 (DiMe-C7), into the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of rat brain increased levels of the dopamine (DA) metabolite dihydroxyphenylacetic acid in the prefrontal cortex (+ 120%) and nucleus accumbens (+30%) but not in other regions of forebrain.
(18) I have to cut through the bullshit and just say what I really mean.” I was so concerned about impressing other academics; I never used a dime word if I had a dollar one in my pocket It also helps when scholars can appreciate the value of an editor, she adds.
(19) Immediately after the training trial, rats were injected with 0.74 pmol SP or equimolar dosed SP(1-7), DIME-C7, or SP(7-11).
(20) Why bow your head to people who will simply bank the genuflection, and then turn on the head of a dime.