Berm vs Dike - What's the difference?
berm | dike |
A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope
A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath
A terrace formed by wave action along a beach
A mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation
A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification
A strip of land between a street and sidewalk (regional)
(British) Archaic spelling of all (British) meanings of dyke.
A barrier of stone or earth used to hold back water and prevent flooding.
* 1891 :
** The king of Texcuco advised the building of a great dike , so thick and strong as to keep out the water.
(pejorative) A lesbian, especially a butch lesbian.
(geology) A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.
To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
*{{quote-journal, 2001, date=November 16, Karen F. Schmidt, ECOLOGY: A True-Blue Vision for the Danube, Science
, passage=Next News Focus ECOLOGY: A True-Blue Vision for the Danube Karen F. Schmidt * Romanian scientists are at the forefront of a European effort to balance the protection and exploitation of vast, diverse wetlands B UCHAREST-- In 1983, dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decreed that the Romanian Danube delta, one of Europe's largest wetlands, be diked for growing rice and maize. }}
* {{quote-news, year=1996, date=September 27, author=Michael Miner, title=WVON Won't Take the Bait/Meigs and the Dailies: The Long View, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Lakeside water-filtration plants, an 11,000-acre diked airport east of 55th Street, slash-and-bulldoze highway projects through Jackson and Lincoln parks--these and many another grandiose project leapt from the sketchbooks of city planners. }}
To drain by a dike or ditch.
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As nouns the difference between berm and dike
is that berm is a narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope while dike is archaic spelling of all meanings of dyke.As verbs the difference between berm and dike
is that berm is to provide something with a berm while dike is to surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.As a proper noun Dike is
{{surname|topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone living near a dike.berm
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(wikipedia berm)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (strip of land between street and sidewalk) see list at (m)dike
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Alternative forms
* dykeNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (barrier of stone or earth) bank, embankment, dam, levee, breakwater, floodwall, seawall * ditchAntonyms
* duneSee also
* dough * duck * duct * thickVerb
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