| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb dike.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dike) | 1. Enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water".[Wordnet]. 2. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.[Websters]. 3. To drain by a dike or ditch.[Websters]. 4. To work as a ditcher; to dig.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: diking, diked, dikes, diker, dikers, dikingly and dikedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DIKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: dike
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Dike vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program. A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out". (The implication is that it is usually more effective to attack software problems by reducing complexity than by increasing it.) The word `dikes' is widely used among mechanics and engineers to mean `diagonal cutters', esp. the heavy-duty metal-cutting version; it also refers to a kind of wire-cutters used by electronics techs. To `dike something out' means to use such cutters to remove something. Indeed, the TMRC Dictionary defined dike as "to attack with dikes". Among hackers this term has been metaphorically extended to informational objects such as sections of code. Source: Jargon File. | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] 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: [Noun] 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: [Noun] A vein of basalt, greenstone or other stony substance.. | 4: [Verb] To surround with a dike; to secure by a bank.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Administration | 1: (1) (Engineering) An embankment to confine or control water, especially one built along the banks of a river to prevent overflow of lowlands; a levee. (2) A low wall that can act as a barrier to prevent a spill from spreading. (3) (groin, spur, jetty, deflector, boom) A structure designed to: (a) reduced water velocity as stream flow passes through the dike so that sediment deposition occurs instead of erosion (permeable dike), or (b) deflect erosive currents away from the stream bank (impermeable dike). (4) (Geology) A tabular body of igneous (formed by volcanic action) rock that cuts across the structure of adjacent rocks or cuts massive rocks. (references) | 2: A low wall that can act as a barrier to prevent a spill from spreading. (references) | |
| Building & Civil Engineering | A natural or artificial embankment which confines the river within its channel and prevents flooding. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Energy | 1: (See also Hurdle) A construction, usually of piling or stone and usually at right angles to the current, for the purpose of diverting the river current away from the banks and toward the channel. A dike serves the same purpose as a wingdam. Dike pilings are usually visible at normal water stages but are often submerged in high water and constitute a navigational hazard. (references) | 2: A low embankment, usually constructed to close up low areas of the reservoir rim and thus limit the extent of the reservoir. Embankment for restraining a river or a stream. Embankments which contain water within a given course. Usually applied to dams built to protect land from flooding. See saddle dam. (references) | |
| Engineering | Bank of earth or stone used to form a barrier, frequently and confusingly interchanged with levee. A dike restrains water within an area that normally is flooded. See levee. (references) | ||
| Environment | 1: 1) (noun) An embankment or barrier constructed to hold water out of a low-lying area, or to hold water within an area. 2) (verb) To surround, protect, or enclose with such an embankment. 3) (in geology) A sheet like intrusion of magma forced upward through fissures in the earth’s crust and hardened to a tabular mass of igneous rock. A volcanic dike may vary from a few inches to hundreds of feet in horizontal thickness. See LEVEE and GROIN. (references) | 2: A tabular body of igneous rock that cuts across the structure of adjacent rocks or cuts massive rocks. Most dikes are caused by the intrusion of magma. Some dikes occur as columnar structures. (references) | |
| Fisheries | Bank, usually of earth material constructed to control or confine waters. (references) | ||
| Food & Agriculture | A bank of soil to retain water on, or exclude it from, a piece of land. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Geography | 1: A tubular body of igneous rock that cuts across the structure of the adjacent rock. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Dike is geographically located in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 3.116667 degrees South latitude and 23.516667 degrees East longitude. (references) | 3: Dike is geographically located in Ethiopia. Its features include a locality (a minor area or place of unspecified or mixed character and indefinite boundaries). Its geographic coordinates are 3.533333 degrees North latitude and 39.45 degrees East longitude. (references) |
| Geological | 1: A sheet-like or tabular-shaped igneous intrusion that cuts across the sedimentary layering, metamorphic foliation, or other texture of a pre-existing rock. (references) | 2: A tabular igneous body that cuts across the planar structures of the surrounding rocks. (references) | |
| Geology | 1: 1) An embankment outside a channel to restrict overflow. 2) A levee. (references) | 2: A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water. (references) | 3: A near vertical, planar, volcanic intrusion. (references) | 4: An embankment (usually of earth) constructed to keep water in or out of a given area. (references) | 5: Dikes are tabular or sheet-like bodies of magma that cut through and across the layering of adjacent rocks. They form when magma rises into an existing fracture, or creates a new crack by forcing its way through existing rock, and then solidifies. Hundreds of dikes can invade the cone and inner core of a volcano, sometimes preferentially along zones of structural weakness. (references) |
| Mining | 1: A discordant pluton that is substantially wider than it is thick. Dikes are often steeply inclined or nearly vertical. See also sill. dilatancy The expansion of a rock's volume caused by stress and deformation. (references) | 2: A. An earthen embankment, as around a drill sump or tank, or to impound a body of water or mill tailing. b. A tabular igneous intrusion that cuts across the bedding or foliation of the country rock. Also spelled: dyke. CF:sill; sheet.See also:dikelet. (references) | |
| Security | Barrier constructed to hold back a spill or leak. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (geology) A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes. (references) | 2: [Noun] (pejorative) A lesbian, especially a manly or unattractive lesbian. (references) | 3: [Noun] (UK) The northern English form of ditch. (references) | 4: [Noun] A barrier of stone or earth used to hold back water and prevent flooding. (references) | 5: [Noun] A ditch and bank running alongside each other (the excavation was the soruce of the material of the embankment.). (references) |
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Common Expressions: dike
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| 99 Dike | 99 Dike (dye'-kee) is a quite large and dark main belt asteroid. (references) | ||
| Dike (construction) | A dike (or dyke) is a earthen wall constructed as a defence or as a boundary. The best known form of dike is a construction built along the edge of a body of water to prevent it from flooding onto an adjacent lowland. Dikes can be mainly found along the sea, where dunes are not strong enough, along rivers for protection against high-floods, along lakes or along polders. Furthermore dikes have been build for the purpose of empoldering or as a boundary for an inundation area. The latter can be a controlled inundation by the military or a measure to prevent inundation of an larger area surrounded by dikes. Dikes have also been built as field boundaries and as military defences. More on this type of dike can be found in the article on dry-stone walls. (references) | ||
| Dike (geology) | A dike or dyke in geology refers to a tabular intrusive igneous body. The thickness is usually much smaller than the other two dimensions. Thickness can vary from sub-centimeter scale to many meters in thickness and the lateral dimensions can extend over many kilometers. A dike is an intrusion into a cross-cutting fissure, meaning a dike normally cuts across or through other pre-existing layers or bodies of rock. Dikes are usually high angle to near vertical in orientation, but subsequent tectonic deformation may rotate the including sequence. Near horizontal or conformable intrusions along bedding planes between strata are called intrusive sills. (references) | ||
| Herbert Hoover Dike | The Herbert Hoover Dike is a dike around the waters of Lake Okeechobee in Florida. (references) | ||
| Soak dike | The term Soak dike is used in The Fens of eastern England to mean a ditch or drain running parallel with an embankment, for the purpose of taking any water that soaks through from the river or drain beyond the bank. In Lincolnshire, sock dyke was formerly, a frequently found form of the expression(1). (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: DIKING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Furrow diking | Environment | Water-saving agricultural irrigation practice in which a long, narrow groove or trench is made in the earth by a plow. The dike is usually placed at one end of the field to collect runoff. (Kromm, D. E., and S. E. White. 1990. Adoption of water-saving practices by irrigators in the High Plains. Water Resources Bulletin 26(6):999-1012.). (references) | |
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