Spike vs Excess - What's the difference?
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An ear of corn or grain.
# (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
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Something pointed or sharp.
# A sort of very large nail; anything resembling such a nail in shape.
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# The long, narrow part of a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
# A sharp peak in a graph.
# a surge in power.
# (informal) In spikes : running shoes with spikes in the soles.
# (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
(zoology) An adolescent male deer.
(slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.
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To fix on a spike; to pierce or run through with a spike.
# To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
# To set or furnish with spikes.
# (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
#* 1834 , (Frederick Marryat), Peter Simple :
#* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 235-6:
# (journalism) To decide not to publish or make public. (From the former practice of newspaper editors impaling sheets of typewritten articles not selected for publication on a metal spike or spindle placed on their desks: see 2010 quotation.)
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# (American football) To slam a football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
# (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
To increase sharply.
To add a small amount of one substance to another.
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# (specifically) To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into food or drink.
The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
* , King John , act 4, scene 2:
* , "Jealosy", in The Poetical Works of William Walsh (1797),
The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
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* 1667 , , Paradise Lost , Book III:
(geometry) Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
(British, insurance) A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim.
More than is normal, necessary or specified.
As a proper noun spike
is .As a noun excess is
the state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.As an adjective excess is
more than is normal, necessary or specified.spike
English
Noun
(en noun)- oil of spike
- He wears on his head the corona radiata ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun.
- "Dere's tay spikes', and cocoa '''spikes''', and skilly ' spikes ."
Synonyms
* catkin, raceme, cluster, corymb, umbelDerived terms
{{der3, marlinspike , spike addition}}Verb
(spik)- to spike down planks
- (Young)
- He jumped down, wrenched the hammer from the armourer’s hand, and seizing a nail from the bag, in a few moments he had spiked the gun.
- Small skirmishes also took place, and the Afghans managed to seize a pair of mule-guns and force the British to spike and abandon two other precious guns.
- Traffic accidents spiked in December when there was ice on the roads.
- The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents.
- She spiked my lemonade with vodka!
Derived terms
* spike someone's gunsSynonyms
* (volleyball): attack, hitAnagrams
* * * English terms with multiple etymologiesexcess
English
Noun
(es) (Spherical excess)- To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
- To throw a perfume on the violet, . . .
- Is wasteful and ridiculous excess .
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- That kills me with excess' of grief, this with ' excess of joy.
- The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
- And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess .
- Fair Angel, thy desire . . .
- . . . leads to no excess
- That reaches blame
