Question 1 · Quick check
dike
CEFRB2
/daɪk/
noun · verb
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A wall built to hold back water or protect land.
- 02
noun
Extra detailTo be well dressed.
Examples
Twelve boxers chase Victor across the big Sylter dike.
I live near the dike.
At a glance
Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsUS standard spelling of dyke.
Formalwear or other fashionable dress.
verb
Extra meaningTo cut or remove using dikes.
More examples
In contextLakeside 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.
In 1983, dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decreed that the Romanian Danube delta, one of Europe's largest wetlands, be diked for growing rice and maize.
“The word ‘dikes’ is widely used to mean ‘diagonal cutters’, a kind of wire cutter.”
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Origin
noun
From Northern Middle English dik and dike (“ditch”), from Old Norse díki (“ditch”). Influenced by Middle Dutch dijc (“ditch; dam”) and Middle Low German dīk (“dam”). See also ditch.