Dyke

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.

   “The king of Texcuco advised the building of a great dike, so thick and strong as to keep out the water.”

2. isim A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.

   “The Galloway Dyke / In southwest Scotland there is a local style of dry stone dyke that is now recognized as 'the Galloway dyke', although when this pattern of ^([sic]) was first developed, it was simply described as 'the sheep dyke'.'”

3. isim A raised causeway.
4. isim A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
5. isim Any navigable watercourse.
6. isim Any watercourse.
7. isim Any small body of water.
8. isim A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.

   “Their exact relationship to the host-rock is obscure but from their texture and observed metamorphic relationship they are thought to be intrusive dykes rather than intercalations of more basic lava.”

9. isim A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.

   “In Cubbaroo's dim distant past They built a double dyke. Back to back in the yard it stood An architectural dream in wood.”

10. isim An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
11. isim Any hollow dug into the ground.
12. isim A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
13. isim A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.

    “The Galloway Dyke / In southwest Scotland there is a local style of dry stone dyke that is now recognized as 'the Galloway dyke', although when this pattern of was first developed, it was simply described as 'the sheep dyke'.'”

14. isim Any fence or hedge.
15. isim Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
16. isim A beaver's dam.
17. isim A jetty; a pier.
18. isim A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
19. fiil To dig, particularly to create a ditch.

    “He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature: and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, dyking, building, without fear or shame.”

20. fiil To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
21. fiil To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
22. fiil To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
23. fiil To scour a watercourse.
24. fiil To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
25. isim A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
26. isim A non-heterosexual woman.
27. isim A masculine woman.
28. özel isim A village in Bourne parish, South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England, named after Car Dyke (OS grid ref TF1022).
29. özel isim A small village in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH9858).
30. özel isim An unincorporated community in Greene County, Virginia, United States.