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Deke vs Dike - What's the difference?

deke | dike |

As nouns the difference between deke and dike

is that deke is a feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or other defender while dike is archaic spelling of all meanings of dyke.

As verbs the difference between deke and dike

is that deke is to avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery 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.

deke

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (ice hockey) A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or other defender.
  • (ice hockey) A series of feints, fakes, or other moves made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or other defender.
  • (Canada, slang) A quick detour.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (Canada) To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
  • (in hockey) To execute a deke .

    • Anagrams

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    dike

    English

    Alternative forms

    * dyke

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (barrier of stone or earth) bank, embankment, dam, levee, breakwater, floodwall, seawall * ditch

    Antonyms

    * dune

    Related terms

    * ditch * dig

    See also

    * dough * duck * duct * thick

    Verb

    (dik)
  • 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 citation
    • , 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 citation
    • , 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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