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Dyke vs Vein - What's the difference?

dyke | vein |

As nouns the difference between dyke and vein

is that dyke is or dyke can be (slang|pejorative) a lesbian, particularly one who appears macho or acts in a macho manner this word has been reclaimed, by some, as politically empowering (see usage notes) while vein is .

dyke

English

(wikipedia dyke)

Etymology 1

Variant of (dike).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, slang) A toilet.
    • 1977 , In Cubbaroo's dim distant past
    They built a double dyke.
    Back to back in the yard it stood
    An architectural dream in wood''
    — Ian Slack-Smith, ''The Passing of the Twin Seater'', from ''The Cubbaroo Tales'', 1977. Quoted in ''Aussie Humour     , Macmillan, 1988, ISBN 0-7251-0553-4, page 235.
  • (UK) A ditch (rarely also refers to similar natural features, and to one natural valley, Devil's Dyke, Sussex, due to a legend that the devil dug it).
  • (UK, mainly S England) An earthwork consisting of a ditch and a parallel rampart.
  • (British) An embankment to prevent inundation, or a causeway.
  • (UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, sometimes topped with hedge planting, or a hedge alone, used as a fence.
  • (UK, mainly Scotland and N England) A dry-stone wall usually forming a boundary to a wood, field or garden.
  • (British, geology) A body of once molten igneous rock that was injected into older rocks in a manner that crosses bedding planes.

    • Etymology 2

    ; various theories suggested. Attested US 1942, in Berrey and Van den Bark’s American Thesaurus of Slang''."dike, dyke, n.3" ''The Oxford English Dictionary . 2nd ed. 1989. OED Online. Oxford UP. 4 Apr. 2000 .
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * bulldyke

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    vein

    English

    (wikipedia vein)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart
  • (used in plural veins ) The entrails of a shrimp
  • (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle
  • (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing
  • A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks
  • A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
    • ...in the same vein ...
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • He can open a vein of true and noble thinking.
  • A style, tendency, or quality.
    • The play is in a satirical vein .
  • * Francis Bacon
    • certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
  • * Waller
    • Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein .
  • A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
  • * Milton
    • down to the veins of earth
  • * Isaac Newton
    • Let the glass of the prisms be free from veins .

    Related terms

    * in the same vein * veined * veinless * veinlet * veinlike * veinstone * veiny * venation * venous * blue-veined cheese * deep vein thrombosis * pulmonary vein * varicose vein

    See also

    * artery * blood vessel * capillary * circulatory system * phlebitis * vena cava

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