Dike vs Weir - What's the difference?
dike | weir |
(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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An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
* 1997 , J. H. L'Abée-Lund & J. E. Brittain, "Weir construction as environmental mitigation in Norwegian hydropower schemes", Hydropower '97 , pages 51-54.
* 2010 , Sathesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering , page 303
A fence placed across a river to catch fish.
* 1887 , W. A. Wilcox, "58-New England Fisheries in May, 1886", Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission , volume VI, for 1886, page 191
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As nouns the difference between dike and weir
is that dike is archaic spelling of all meanings of dyke while weir is an adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.As a verb 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.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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weir
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Noun
(en noun)- The weir' must not represent a physical barrier to fish migration, both locally and throughout the whole river system. If necesary, a fishway is included in the ' weir .
- A walkway over the weir' is likely to be useful for the removal of floating debris trapped by the ' weir , or for working staunches and sluices on it as the rate of flow changes.
- The weir catch of mackerel at Monomoy and along Cape Cod has been a failure.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.}}