Look up: Dyke

1. Dyke
   A dyke (dike) is a ditch or trench, and also an embankment, rampart, or wall. It is specially applied to an embankment raised to oppose the incursions of the sea or of a river, the dikes of Holland being notable examples of work of this kind. These are often raised 12 metres above the high-water mar...
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2. Dyke
   Dyke is slang for a lesbian.
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3. Dyke
   A bank, often used to describe a linear rampart. Early English Term used to describe a style of English Gothic architecture, roughly covering the period 1200-1300.
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4. Dyke
   Vertical or near-vertical igneous intrusion that cuts across existing bedding or foliation in the host rock.
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5. dyke
   In archaeology, a linear earthwork consisting of a line of bank and ditch. Most dykes in Britain are products of the post-Roman period. They may be double or occasionally treble, and were designed...
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6. Dyke
   Dyke noun See Dike . The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
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7. Dyke
   • (n.) See Dike. The spelling dyke is restricted by some to the geological meaning.
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8. Dyke
   Dyke is slang for a lesbian.
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9. Dyke
   Thin vertical veins of igneous rock that form when magma enters and cools in fractures found within the crust. Also see intrusive igneous rock.
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10. dyke
    (earth science) In earth science, a sheet of igneous rock created by the intrusion of magma (molten rock) across layers of pre-existing rock. (By contrast, a sill is intruded between layers of rock.) It may form a ridge when exposed on the surface if it is more resistant...
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11. Dyke
    hin, tabular, vertical or near vertical body of igneous rock formed by the injection of magma into planar zones of weakness
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12. dyke
    wall
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13. Dyke
    (slang) `Dyke` is slang terminology referring to a lesbian or lesbianism. It originated as a jstor=455819-->--> To some extent the word has been reappropriation|reappropriated. Origins: The origin of the term is obscure, and many theories have been proposed.<ref name="Spears">-->...
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