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dyke

/daɪk/

dykeсуществительное

dykes

множ.

/daɪk/

Переводы

дамба

The dyke was built to prevent flooding.

Дамба была построена, чтобы предотвратить наводнение.

канал

The water flowed through the dyke into the fields.

Вода текла через канал на поля.

Дополнительные переводы

вал

насыпь

Определения

A long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea or a river.

The dyke was constructed to protect the town from the rising sea levels.

A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea.

Farmers built a dyke to prevent the river from flooding their fields.

A geological formation consisting of a sheet of rock that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body.

The geologist studied the dyke to understand the volcanic activity in the region.

(slang, often offensive) A lesbian, especially one perceived as masculine or tough.

Some activists have reclaimed the word "dyke" and use it with pride.

A ditch or trench dug for drainage or irrigation, especially in Scottish or Northern English usage.

Water collected in the narrow dyke that bordered the pasture.

Синонимы

dykeглагол

dyked

Прошедшее простое время

dyked

Причастие прошедшего времени

dyking

Герундий

/daɪk/

Определения

To build, fortify, or protect with a dyke or dykes.

The low-lying fields were dyked to keep out the spring floods.

Синонимы

shore (up)

wall (up)

levee (verb)

bank (up)

embank

dam

dykeприлагательное

Attributive use of the noun (e.g., “dyke wall”)

Определения

Relating to, involving, or functioning as a dyke.

Dyke maintenance crews inspected the structure after the storm.

Синонимы

stone butch