English-Thai Dictionary

dike

N เขื่อน  มูน ดิน  กำแพง กั้น น้ำ  ทำนบ  mole breakwater groin embankment kuean

 

dike

VT กั้น เขื่อน  ทำ เขื่อน กั้น  kan-kuan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DIKE

n.[G. See Dig. It is radically the same word as ditch, and this is its primary sense; but by an easy transition, it came to signify also the bank formed by digging and throwing up earth. Intrenchment is sometimes used both for a ditch and a rampart. ] 1. A ditch; an excavation made in the earth by digging, of greater length than breadth, intended as a reservoir of water, a drain, or for other purpose.
2. A mound of earth, of stones, or of other materials, intended to prevent low lands, from being inundated by the sea or a river. The low countries of Holland are thus defended by dikes.
3. A vein of basalt, greenstone or other stony substance.

 

DIKE

v.t.To surround with a dike; to secure by a bank.

 

DIKE

v.i.To dig. [Not in use. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DIKE

Dike, n. Etym: [OE. dic, dike, diche, ditch, AS. d dike, ditch; akin to D. dijk dike, G. deich, and prob. teich pond, Icel. d dike, ditch, Dan. dige; perh. akin to Gr. dough; or perh. to Gr. Ditch. ]

 

1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. Ray.

 

2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised. .. Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.

 

3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot. ]

 

4. (Geol.)

 

Defn: A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.

 

DIKE

Dike, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Diked; p. pr. & vb. n. Diking.] Etym: [OE. diken, dichen, AS. dician to dike. See Dike. ]

 

1. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

 

2. To drain by a dike or ditch.

 

DIKE

DIKE Dike, v. i.

 

Defn: To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs. ] He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. Chaucer.

 

DIKER

DIKER Dik "er, n.

 

1. A ditcher. Piers Plowman.

 

2. One who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime. [Scot. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dike

dike 1 |dīk daɪk |(also dyke ) ▶noun 1 a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea. • (often in place names ) a low wall or earthwork serving as a boundary or defense: Offa's Dike. • a causeway. • Geology an intrusion of igneous rock cutting across existing strata. Compare with sill. 2 a ditch or watercourse. ▶verb [ with obj. ] (often as adj. diked ) provide (land ) with a wall or embankment to prevent flooding. PHRASES put one's finger in the dike attempt to stem the advance of something undesirable. [from a story of a small Dutch boy who saved his community from a flood by placing his finger in a hole in a dike. ]ORIGIN Middle English (denoting a trench or ditch ): from Old Norse dík, related to ditch. Sense 1 of the noun has been influenced by Middle Low German dīk ‘dam ’ and Middle Dutch dijc ‘ditch, dam. ’

 

dike

dike 2 |daɪk dīk | ▶noun variant spelling of dyke 1.

 

Oxford Dictionary

dike

dike 1 ▶noun variant spelling of dyke 2.

 

dike

dike 2 ▶noun variant spelling of dyke 1.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dike

dike noun the dikes were destroyed in the flood: embankment, levee; ditch, trench, gutter.

 

Duden Dictionary

Dike

Di ke Eigenname griechische Mythologie |D i ke |Göttin der Gerechtigkeit

 

Dikerion

Di ke ri on Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Dik e rion |das Dikerion; Genitiv: des Dikerions, Plural: die Dikerien griechisch zweiarmiger Leuchter Insigne des Bischofs in den Ostkirchen

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dike

dike dyke /daɪk /名詞 C 1 堤防, 土手 .2 ｟けなして ｠レズビアン (lesbian ).3 ｟主に英 ｠溝, 堀, 排水路 .4 ｟スコット ｠土塀, 低い壁 .5 防壁 ; 障壁 .6 〘地 〙岩脈 .7 ｟豪俗 ｠便所 .動詞 他動詞 …に堤防 [防壁 ]を築く ; …を防壁で囲う .