Fike vs Dike - What's the difference?
fike | dike |
(ambitransitive) To feign; dissemble; flatter.
To move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.
To give trouble to; vex; perplex.
Restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance.
Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work which causes unnecessary trouble; teasing exactness of operation.
(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 fike and dike
is that fike is restlessness or agitation caused by trifling annoyance or fike can be (obsolete) a fig while dike is great desire, lust.As a verb fike
is (ambitransitive) to feign; dissemble; flatter or fike can be to move about in a quick, uneasy way; be constantly in motion.fike
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(fik)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fiken, . Related to (l) and (l).Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (Scotland)Verb
(fik)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 3
From (etyl) fike, from (etyl) . More at (l).dike
English
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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