(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.
Dyke
Definition:
(n.) See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
Example Sentences:
(1) We thought we had a responsibility to English football if we can fit [the clubs] in, and that money we can use to support grassroots football,” Dyke said.
(2) Grade said he objected to Dyke's assertion in the Times that he used information about the BBC's schedule when he quit as chairman of the corporation in late 2006 to move to ITV.
(3) Last year David Cameron dubbed Offa’s Dyke “the line between life and death”, and barely a week goes by at Westminster without the Conservatives kicking the Welsh NHS.
(4) Alexander Lebedev has targeted some of the biggest names in British media to edit the Independent, including Greg Dyke, the former director general of the BBC.
(5) Latin America delights in Fifa arrests after years of impunity Read more Greg Dyke, chairman of the English Football Association (FA), said that the 79-year-old needed to leave Fifa for the organisation to continue.
(6) A report by Greg Dyke, former director general of the BBC, is likely to recommend that the BBC licence fee is scrapped to save up to £100m a year.
(7) The review, which originally promised to report in January, was broadly welcomed but some felt that Dyke had overlooked the findings of a recent wide ranging review into the supply line for domestic talent that resulted in the £340m Elite Player Performance Plan in favour of asking the same questions again.
(8) Dyke believes that following the Olympics, Entwistle has a chance to show "how important the BBC is to the nation".
(9) Van Dyke is the first on-duty officer to be charged with murder while working for the Chicago police department in nearly 35 years.
(10) Among them are former director general Greg Dyke, who described the trust under Fairhead’s predecessor Lord Patten as a “busted flush” .
(11) And, I think, certainly in terms of the playing, we can make a difference.” Dyke also said new visa rules agreed last week with the Home Office will help.
(12) Following this week's withdrawal of Lord Coe, who had been backed by David Cameron and George Osborne , the former director general Greg Dyke said neither politician should have become so involved.
(13) "I don't think [Patten's] doing a good job because I don't know where he was when the crisis happened," Dyke told MPs on the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee on Tuesday.
(14) When we decided in Brazil that we wanted Roy to continue with his contract, we thought, ‘He’s got a contract, he sees it through.’ Sometime in the next year we will discuss what happens afterwards.” Dyke said in March: “I get on quite well with Roy and I chat to him all the time.
(15) Instead, let's hunt down whoever told Van Dyke an English accent just involves adding "guvnerrrr" to every other sentence.
(16) Greg Dyke interview: ‘People keep coming up to me and saying: Well done, you got rid of him!’ Read more Asked whether he would bet on Blatter being arrested if he had to choose, Dyke replied: “Yes.” Blatter has strenuously denied all wrongdoing.
(17) Dyke’s plan is unlikely to find favour with all top flight clubs, who want to preserve their autonomy and believe a £340m investment in the Elite Player Performance Plan is bearing fruit.
(18) Having overseen early England exits at the 2014 World Cup and now Euro 2016, Dyke said Roy Hodgson’s successor as England manager could be a foreign coach but said he had to be steeped in English football.
(19) Greg Dyke, the Football Association chairman, believes a new contract for Roy Hodgson is not entirely dependent on a successful finish at Euro 2016.
(20) Independent IAB members, including the former Chelsea players Graeme Le Saux and Paul Elliott, have written a joint letter to the FA chairman Greg Dyke and all FA councillors backing Rabbatts and criticising the investigation.