'Dike' definitions:
Definition of 'dike'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Dike'
From: GCIDE
- Dike \Dike\, v. i. To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dike'
From: GCIDE
- Dike \Dike\ (d[imac]), n. [OE. dic, dike, diche, ditch, AS. d[imac]c dike, ditch; akin to D. dijk dike, G. deich, and prob. teich pond, Icel. d[imac]ki dike, ditch, Dan. dige; perh. akin to Gr. tei^chos (for qei^chos) wall, and even E. dough; or perh. to Gr. ti^fos pool, marsh. Cf. Ditch.]
- 1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. [1913 Webster]
- Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. --Ray. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. [1913 Webster]
- Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Geol.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dike'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'dike'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abatis,
- abysm,
- abyss,
- advanced work,
- alley,
- alleyway,
- aqueduct,
- arch dam,
- arroyo,
- arterial,
- arterial highway,
- arterial street,
- artery,
- artificial lake,
- Autobahn,
- autoroute,
- autostrada,
- avenue,
- backstop,
- balistraria,
- bamboo curtain,
- bank,
- banquette,
- bar,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barrage,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- bayou lake,
- bear-trap dam,
- beaver dam,
- belt highway,
- blind alley,
- boom,
- bore,
- boulevard,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- breakwater,
- breastwork,
- brick wall,
- buffer,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- burrow,
- bypass,
- byway,
- camino real,
- canal,
- canalization,
- canalize,
- canyon,
- carriageway,
- carve,
- casemate,
- causeway,
- causey,
- cavity,
- chamfer,
- channel,
- chap,
- chasm,
- chaussee,
- check,
- cheval-de-frise,
- chimney,
- chink,
- chisel,
- chute,
- circumferential,
- circumvallation,
- cistern,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- close,
- clough,
- cofferdam,
- col,
- contravallation,
- corduroy road,
- corrugate,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- counterscarp,
- country rock,
- county road,
- court,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crescent,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- crimp,
- cul-de-sac,
- curtain,
- cut,
- cwm,
- dado,
- dam,
- dead water,
- dead-end street,
- defense,
- defile,
- dell,
- delve,
- demibastion,
- deposit,
- dig,
- dig out,
- dirt road,
- ditch,
- donga,
- draw,
- drawbridge,
- dredge,
- drill,
- drive,
- driveway,
- earthwork,
- embankment,
- enclosure,
- engrave,
- entanglement,
- entrenchment,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- etang,
- excavate,
- excavation,
- expressway,
- farm pond,
- fault,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- fishpond,
- fissure,
- flaw,
- flume,
- flute,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- fosse,
- fracture,
- freeway,
- freshwater lake,
- furrow,
- gangue,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gate,
- glacial lake,
- glacis,
- goffer,
- gorge,
- gouge,
- gouge out,
- gravel road,
- gravity dam,
- groin,
- groove,
- grub,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- gutter,
- ha-ha,
- highroad,
- highway,
- highways and byways,
- hole,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- incise,
- incision,
- inland sea,
- interstate highway,
- iron curtain,
- jam,
- jetty,
- joint,
- kennel,
- kloof,
- lagoon,
- laguna,
- lake,
- lakelet,
- landlocked water,
- lane,
- leak,
- leaping weir,
- levee,
- linn,
- local road,
- loch,
- lode,
- lodestuff,
- logjam,
- loophole,
- lough,
- lower,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- main drag,
- main road,
- mantelet,
- matrix,
- mere,
- merlon,
- mews,
- milldam,
- millpond,
- millpool,
- mine,
- mineral deposit,
- moat,
- mole,
- motorway,
- mound,
- notch,
- nullah,
- nyanza,
- opening,
- ore bed,
- outwork,
- oxbow lake,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- parkway,
- pass,
- passage,
- pave,
- paved road,
- pay dirt,
- pike,
- place,
- plank road,
- plash,
- pleat,
- plow,
- pond,
- pondlet,
- pool,
- portcullis,
- postern gate,
- primary highway,
- private road,
- puddle,
- quarry,
- rabbet,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- ravine,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- rent,
- reservoir,
- rifle,
- rift,
- right-of-way,
- rime,
- ring road,
- road,
- roadbed,
- roadblock,
- roadway,
- rock-fill dam,
- route nationale,
- row,
- royal road,
- rupture,
- rut,
- salina,
- sally port,
- salt pond,
- sap,
- scarp,
- scissure,
- sconce,
- scoop,
- scoop out,
- score,
- scrabble,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- seam,
- seawall,
- secondary road,
- shoot,
- shovel,
- shutter dam,
- sink,
- slit,
- slot,
- spade,
- speedway,
- split,
- stagnant water,
- standing water,
- state highway,
- still water,
- stock,
- stockade,
- stone wall,
- streak,
- street,
- striate,
- sump,
- sunk fence,
- superhighway,
- tank,
- tarn,
- tenaille,
- terrace,
- thoroughfare,
- through street,
- thruway,
- tidal pond,
- toll road,
- township road,
- trench,
- trough,
- tunnel,
- turnpike,
- US highway,
- vallation,
- valley,
- vallum,
- vein,
- void,
- volcanic lake,
- wadi,
- wall,
- water hole,
- water pocket,
- weir,
- well,
- wicket dam,
- work,
- wrinkle,
- wynd
Dike, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Dike, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000) :
944
Housing Units (2000) :
393
Land area (2000) :
1.304685 sq. miles (3.379118 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1.304685 sq. miles (3.379118 sq. km)
FIPS code :
21405
Located within :
Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location :
42.464706 N, 92.627688 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
50624
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.