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Disked vs Diked - What's the difference?

disked | diked |

As verbs the difference between disked and diked

is that disked is (disk) while diked is (dike).

disked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (disk)

    • disk

    English

    (wikipedia disk)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
    • A coin is a disk of metal.
  • Something resembling a disk.
    • Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
  • An .
  • A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
    • Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
  • A floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
    • He still uses floppy disks from 1979.
  • A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.
    • She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
  • A harrow.
  • A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

    • Usage notes

    In International English, disk'' is the correct spelling for magnetic ''disks''. If the medium is optical, the variant ''disc'' is usually preferred, although computing is a peculiar field for the term. For instance hard disk and other disk drives are always thus spelled, yet so are terms like compact discs. Thus, if referring to a physical drive or older media (3" or 5.25" diskettes) the ''k'' is used, but ''c is used for newer (optical based) media. Less commonly, in British English, disc'' has been used for magnetic disks, as in ''floppy disc'' and ''discette .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (agriculture) to harrow
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Various, title=Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=That is alkali. Mr. Kochendorfer: I have a ten-year apple orchard that I disked last year and kept it tolerably clean this spring. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1948, author=Various, title=Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The next year I plowed and disked the patch of ground and planted potatoes. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1991, date=September 6, author=Jerry Sullivan, title=Field & Street, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=The soil is plowed and disked and then seeded with a mixture of prairie plants. }}

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    diked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dike)

    • 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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