Dike

Noun

 * 1)  The northern English form of ditch.
 * 2) A ditch and bank running alongside each other.
 * 3) A barrier of stone or earth used to hold back water and prevent flooding.
 * 4) * 1891:
 * 5) ** The king of Texcuco advised the building of a great dike, so thick and strong as to keep out the water.
 * 6)  A lesbian, especially a manly or unattractive lesbian.
 * 7)  A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.

Synonyms
 barrier of stone or earth long, narrow excavation
 * bank
 * embankment
 * dam
 * levee
 * breakwater
 * floodwall
 * seawall
 * ditch

Antonyms

 * dune

Related terms

 * ditch
 * dig

Thesaurus
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

Alternative forms

 * dyke

Etymology
(Northern) dik:, dike:, from díki: 'ditch, dike'. More at and doublet of ditch.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: канавка, отводнителен канал
 * Dutch:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: trincheira


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: дига
 * Czech: hráz
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 둑 (duk)
 * Macedonian: канач, трапиште
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:

Adverb

 * 1) thickly

Noun

 * 1) ditch; a small canal, for irrigation or drainage
 * Han körde i diket med sin nya bil.
 * He went off the road with (ditched) his new car.