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A dyke is a long wall or bank of earth built to hold back water and stop flooding — the Netherlands is famous for its dykes, which protect land that sits below sea level. You may also hear 'dyke' used as slang for a lesbian woman; some women use it proudly about themselves, but it can sound offensive coming from someone outside that community, so it's a word to handle with care.
堤防、防洪堤；(俚語，需謹慎使用)女同性戀者
組成Related to 'ditch' — both come from the same old word for a dug trench; the earth dug out to make a ditch was piled up to make a dyke.
同家族的字
- ditchdyke and ditch come from the same old word — digging a ditch piles up the earth that becomes a dyke
原始詞典資料31 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Dykename
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A village in Bourne parish, South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England, named after Car Dyke (OS grid ref TF1022).
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A small village in Moray council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH9858).
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An unincorporated community in Greene County, Virginia, United States.
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A surname.
dykenoun詞源 1/ˈdaɪ̯k/
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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.
- Serious as was the flood damage in England, the bursting of some of the dykes on the coast of Holland resulted in an even more widespread and devastating inundation.
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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'.'
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A raised causeway.
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historicalA long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
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dialectalAny navigable watercourse.
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dialectalAny watercourse.
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dialectalAny small body of water.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesA 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.
另外 10 個記錄的用法
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slangA 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.
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An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
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obsoleteAny hollow dug into the ground.
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historicalA long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
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A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
- Inchbrakie gives for Arms, Or, a Dyke (or Wall) Feſsways, broke down in ſome places, and in Baſe a Roſe Gules, on a chief Sable three Eſcalops of the firſt. The Dyke (or Wall) here, is aſſumed not only to difference, but to perpetuate the valiant Action of Graham before mentioned; in throwing down the Wall and Ditch, which the Romans made betwixt Forth and Clyde, to keep out the Scots, [...]
- Wall, (sometimes called a dyke, fr. mur) : this is generally found in connection with castles or towns which are walled (muraillé). A wall of which kind should be masoned (fr. maçonné) and embattled (fr. crenellé), even though this be not specified. [...] Or, a dyke [or wall] fesswise [masoned proper] broken down in some places gules; [...] —Graham, Inchbrakie, Scotland [similar arms borne by Græme of Stapleton].
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dialectalAny fence or hedge.
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Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
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A beaver's dam.
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dialectalA jetty; a pier.
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dialectalbusinessminingA fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
dykeverb詞源 1/ˈdaɪ̯k/
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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.
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To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
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To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
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To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
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To scour a watercourse.
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To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
dykenoun詞源 2
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vulgaroffensivederogatoryslangA lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
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vulgaroffensivederogatoryslangA non-heterosexual woman.
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vulgaroffensivederogatoryslangA masculine woman.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。