Dike vs X - What's the difference?
dike | x |
(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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The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun dike
is great desire, lust.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.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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