dike in English

noun
1
a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea.
Ponds are separated by dikes that prevent flooding and provide access routes to the ponds for electricity and aerator motors.
2
a ditch or watercourse.
At the same time, the construction of canals, ditches and dikes essential to irrigation demanded cooperation between different social groups.
verb
1
provide (land) with a wall or embankment to prevent flooding.
In 1968, a rock-filled dam with a flood control gate system was built in the upper estuary of the Petitcodiac River, New Brunswick, as a road connection and to protect diked farmland from flooding.

Use "dike" in a sentence

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1. Lieutenant Dike.

2. The 1953 dike disaster

3. We'll cut the dike here!

4. I live near the dike.

5. The floods caved in that dike.

6. Somehow, I made it to the dike, dove over the dike, and there was my whole squad.

7. Dike to collect larger liquid spills.

8. The dam burst dike burst.

9. The name Kinderdijk is Dutch for "Children dike".

10. But a dike is not a roof.

11. A crack in the dike will do

12. Existing Infrastructure Dam or dike Main road

13. A crack in the dike will do.

14. The dike swarm converges on West Spanish peak.

15. The dike held during the flood.

16. The dike around the shop complex had broken.

17. Dreams are water seeping through cracks in the dike.

18. A small wooden bridge straddled the dike.

19. " The Mississippi River broke through a protective dike today. "

20. The dike has been a great protection to Holland.

21. Soon, we moved, and I walked over a dike.

22. Little Dutch boy's keeping the blood dike from bursting.

23. The dike rocks display rather high BaO-contents.

24. That winter they started to rebuild the dike.

25. In addition also some three dike seven bridges another beauty.

26. This includes the dike pathway and roads in the vicinity.

27. Canal standardization, cross - strait dike is flat, river water is clear.

28. They have proposed building a temporary dike around the crash site.

29. Different dike-lithologies are associated with different strike directions.

30. That breach in the dike opened up the floodgates.

31. They dug a dike along walls of the school.

32. The most impressive form of intrusive is the dike.

33. With Buck off the line, there was no alternative to Dike.

34. The dike prevents material loss and allows recovery and reuse.

35. The dike that is protected by Mangrove forest is impregnable!

36. " Before long, you pass a dike, " then you get to the Mekong Bridge

37. The picturesque windmills of the Netherlands pumped water out of dike-enclosed lowlands.

38. Enough already with this dike, several blockades the places around your life, some restraints

39. We gathered around a paddy dike and exchanged greetings and impressions.

40. (noun) An example of a Crevasse is a deep crack in a dike.

41. American Daryl Dike scores 3rd goal during loan to Barnsley American forward Daryl Dike scored his third goal for Barnsley, a right-footed shot from just inside the penalty area that curled past

42. The margins of dike Apophyses, sediment reentrants, and strike and dip irregularities

43. “Dam it, dike it, drain it, divert it” became their clarion call.

44. The dike around the shop complex had broken. Water was gushing in.

45. This dike system is recognized on the basis of a well defined aeromagnetic lineament.

46. When you're done with that, can you help me plug the hole in this dike?

47. Backfill of the temporary dike at Eastmain-1-A powerhouse’s water intake has been completed.

48. Mother and youngsters on a dike near Kota Bharu, Malaysia, set out to transplant seedlings.

49. Beyond the gate running south-east, the dike continued as Sint Antoniesdijk (now Sint Antoniesbreestraat).

50. Oh, it's the duchess and the boy with his finger in the dike.