1
civil engineering
: an artificial watercourse : ditch
2
civil engineering
a
: a bank (see bank entry 1 sense 1) usually of earth constructed to control or confine water : levee
b
: a barrier preventing passage especially of something undesirable
diked; diking
1
civil engineering
: to surround or protect with a dike (see dike entry 1)
2
civil engineering
: to drain by a dike
diker
noun
civil engineering
Examples of dike in a Sentence
Noun (1)
an elaborate system of dikes built to protect the lowlands from the relentless onslaught of the sea
water flowed along the dike to the small pond
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ABC News, 4 May 2025
The fifth season, then, premiered in the noxious contrail of the Dobbs decision, which silenced those who believed a 1973 Supreme Court case could serve as a permanent finger in the political dike.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2025
Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
The decision was largely informed by alarmingly low salmon runs as a result of heavily dammed, diked and channeled streams struggling to maintain healthy flows in the face of droughts and warming summers.
—oregonlive, 17 June 2023
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Noun
And the Treasury secretary is really the last guy with his finger kind of in the dike.
—ABC News, 4 May 2025
The fifth season, then, premiered in the noxious contrail of the Dobbs decision, which silenced those who believed a 1973 Supreme Court case could serve as a permanent finger in the political dike.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2025
Verb
Some areas of the estuary are diked to allow for farming, which means water no longer flows in or out with the tides.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
The decision was largely informed by alarmingly low salmon runs as a result of heavily dammed, diked and channeled streams struggling to maintain healthy flows in the face of droughts and warming summers.
—oregonlive, 17 June 2023
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“Dike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dike. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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dike
2 of 2 verb
diked; diking
1
: to surround or protect with a dike
2
: to drain by a dike
diker
noun
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