Dike
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
dike
n 1: (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably
masculine [syn: {butch}, {dike}, {dyke}]
2: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep
out the sea [syn: {dam}, {dike}, {dyke}]
v 1: enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from
water" [syn: {dike}, {dyke}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dike \Dike\ (d[imac]), n. [OE. dic, dike, diche, ditch, AS.
d[imac]c dike, ditch; akin to D. dijk dike, G. deich, and
prob. teich pond, Icel. d[imac]ki dike, ditch, Dan. dige;
perh. akin to Gr. tei^chos (for qei^chos) wall, and even E.
dough; or perh. to Gr. ti^fos pool, marsh. Cf. {Ditch}.]
1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.
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Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. --Ray.
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2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
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Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . .
Shut out the turbulent tides. --Longfellow.
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3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.]
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4. (Geol.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an
intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures
in the original strata.
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from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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 to mean `diagonal cutters', a
kind of wire cutter. 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.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
dike
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",
especially the heavy-duty metal-cutting version, but may also
refer to a kind of wire-cutters used by electronics
technicians. 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.
[{Jargon File}]
from
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Dike, IA (city, FIPS 21405)
Location: 42.46310 N, 92.63014 W
Population (1990): 875 (355 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 50624
Dike, TX
Zip code(s): 75437
from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Dike, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 944
Housing Units (2000): 393
Land area (2000): 1.304685 sq. miles (3.379118 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.304685 sq. miles (3.379118 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21405
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.464706 N, 92.627688 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50624
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Dike, IA
Dike
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
346 Moby Thesaurus words for "dike":
Autobahn, US highway, abatis, abysm, abyss, advanced work, alley,
alleyway, aqueduct, arch dam, arroyo, arterial, arterial highway,
arterial street, artery, artificial lake, autoroute, autostrada,
avenue, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette,
bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade,
barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bayou lake, bear-trap dam,
beaver dam, belt highway, blind alley, boom, bore, boulevard,
box canyon, breach, break, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall,
buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, burrow, bypass, byway, camino real,
canal, canalization, canalize, canyon, carriageway, carve,
casemate, causeway, causey, cavity, chamfer, channel, chap, chasm,
chaussee, check, cheval-de-frise, chimney, chink, chisel, chute,
circumferential, circumvallation, cistern, cleft, cleuch, close,
clough, cofferdam, col, contravallation, corduroy road, corrugate,
coulee, couloir, counterscarp, country rock, county road, court,
crack, cranny, crescent, crevasse, crevice, crimp, cul-de-sac,
curtain, cut, cwm, dado, dam, dead water, dead-end street, defense,
defile, dell, delve, demibastion, deposit, dig, dig out, dirt road,
ditch, donga, draw, drawbridge, dredge, drill, drive, driveway,
earthwork, embankment, enclosure, engrave, entanglement,
entrenchment, escarp, escarpment, etang, excavate, excavation,
expressway, farm pond, fault, fence, fieldwork, fishpond, fissure,
flaw, flume, flute, fortalice, fortification, fosse, fracture,
freeway, freshwater lake, furrow, gangue, gap, gape, gash, gate,
glacial lake, glacis, goffer, gorge, gouge, gouge out, gravel road,
gravity dam, groin, groove, grub, gulch, gulf, gully, gutter,
ha-ha, highroad, highway, highways and byways, hole,
hydraulic-fill dam, incise, incision, inland sea,
interstate highway, iron curtain, jam, jetty, joint, kennel, kloof,
lagoon, laguna, lake, lakelet, landlocked water, lane, leak,
leaping weir, levee, linn, local road, loch, lode, lodestuff,
logjam, loophole, lough, lower, lunette, machicolation, main drag,
main road, mantelet, matrix, mere, merlon, mews, milldam, millpond,
millpool, mine, mineral deposit, moat, mole, motorway, mound,
notch, nullah, nyanza, opening, ore bed, outwork, oxbow lake,
palisade, parados, parapet, parkway, pass, passage, pave,
paved road, pay dirt, pike, place, plank road, plash, pleat, plow,
pond, pondlet, pool, portcullis, postern gate, primary highway,
private road, puddle, quarry, rabbet, rampart, ravelin, ravine,
redan, redoubt, rent, reservoir, rifle, rift, right-of-way, rime,
ring road, road, roadbed, roadblock, roadway, rock-fill dam,
route nationale, row, royal road, rupture, rut, salina, sally port,
salt pond, sap, scarp, scissure, sconce, scoop, scoop out, score,
scrabble, scrape, scratch, seam, seawall, secondary road, shoot,
shovel, shutter dam, sink, slit, slot, spade, speedway, split,
stagnant water, standing water, state highway, still water, stock,
stockade, stone wall, streak, street, striate, sump, sunk fence,
superhighway, tank, tarn, tenaille, terrace, thoroughfare,
through street, thruway, tidal pond, toll road, township road,
trench, trough, tunnel, turnpike, vallation, valley, vallum, vein,
void, volcanic lake, wadi, wall, water hole, water pocket, weir,
well, wicket dam, work, wrinkle, wynd
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