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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (British) Archaic spelling of all (British) meanings of dyke.
- A barrier of stone or earth used to hold back water and prevent flooding.
- (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.
Verbit
- (transitive) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
- (transitive) To drain by a dike or ditch.
Esimerkit
- The king of Texcuco advised the building of a great dike, so thick and strong as to keep out the water.
- 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.
- 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.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | diked |
| Imperfekti | diked |
| Partisiipin preesens | diking |
| Monikko | dikes |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | dikes |