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Projection is a related term of spike.


As a noun projection

is something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.

As a proper noun spike is

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projection

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
  • The face of the cliff had many projections which are big enough for birds to nest on.
  • The action of projecting]] or throwing or [[propel, propelling something.
  • The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
  • A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
  • (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself
  • (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
  • (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.
  • (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
  • (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
  • (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
  • (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
  • Synonyms

    * (something which sticks out) protuberance

    Derived terms

    * * astral projection * axonometric projection * dimetric projection * graphical projection * oblique projection * orthographic projection * parallel projection * perspective projection * projective * isometric projection * trimetric projection

    spike

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ear of corn or grain.
  • # (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
  • #
  • oil of spike
  • Something pointed or sharp.
  • # A sort of very large nail; anything resembling such a nail in shape.
  • #* Addison
  • He wears on his head the corona radiata ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun.
  • # The long, narrow part of a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
  • # A sharp peak in a graph.
  • # a surge in power.
  • # (informal) In spikes : running shoes with spikes in the soles.
  • # (volleyball) An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
  • (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
  • (slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.
  • * 1933 : , p. 139.
  • "Dere's tay spikes', and cocoa '''spikes''', and skilly ' spikes ."

    Synonyms

    * catkin, raceme, cluster, corymb, umbel

    Derived terms

    {{der3, marlinspike , spike addition}}

    Verb

    (spik)
  • To fix on a spike; to pierce or run through with a spike.
  • # To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
  • to spike down planks
  • # To set or furnish with spikes.
  • (Young)
  • # (military) To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
  • #* 1834 , (Frederick Marryat), Peter Simple :
  • He jumped down, wrenched the hammer from the armourer’s hand, and seizing a nail from the bag, in a few moments he had spiked the gun.
  • #* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 235-6:
  • Small skirmishes also took place, and the Afghans managed to seize a pair of mule-guns and force the British to spike and abandon two other precious guns.
  • # (journalism) To decide not to publish or make public. (From the former practice of newspaper editors impaling sheets of typewritten articles not selected for publication on a metal spike or spindle placed on their desks: see 2010 quotation.)
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  • # (American football) To slam a football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
  • # (volleyball) To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
  • To increase sharply.
  • Traffic accidents spiked in December when there was ice on the roads.
  • To add a small amount of one substance to another.
  • The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents.
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  • # (specifically) To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into food or drink.
  • She spiked my lemonade with vodka!
  • Derived terms

    * spike someone's guns

    Synonyms

    * (volleyball): attack, hit