dike
- IPA[dīk]
美式
- a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea.;a low wall or earthwork serving as a boundary or defense
- provide (land) with a wall or embankment to prevent flooding
noun: dyke, plural noun: dykes
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- 片語
名詞
- 1. a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea.
- ▪ a low wall or earthwork serving as a boundary or defense Offa's Dike
- ▪ a causeway.
- 2. a ditch or watercourse.
- 3. an intrusion of igneous rock cutting across existing strata.
- 4. Australian, New Zealand informal, dated a toilet.
動詞
- 1. provide (land) with a wall or embankment to prevent flooding they diked the marshland along the rivers to provide pasture in summer the fertility of those diked lands was unrivaled
- a deposit of sand cutting through sedimentary strata in the manner of an igneous dike, formed ...
Oxford American Dictionary
- attempt to stem the advance of something undesirable
Oxford American Dictionary
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- IPA[dīk]
美式
- a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea.
- provide (land) with a wall or embankment to prevent flooding.
Oxford American Dictionary
- IPA[dʌɪk]
英式
- variant spelling of dyke
Oxford Dictionary
- IPA[dīk]
美式
- variant spelling of dyke
Oxford American Dictionary