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# dike

noun (dike, dikes)

«dike» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A dike is a long bank of earth or stone built to keep the sea or a river from flooding the land; it is the same as a dyke. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dike/#m1)
2. (old use) A dike can also be a ditch dug to drain water from land. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dike/#m2)

### In the lessons

in old tales a woman walks out to the dike and calls across the water; in lessons it names a wall of earth beside water

### Examples

- The farmers built a high dike to keep out the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dike/#x1)
- She came to the dike and called out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dike/#x2)
- The mother sat on the dike and wailed for her child. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dike/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «dike» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dike/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«dike» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/dike.html) on Mova free.