dike 的 2 个定义
- an embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river: They built a temporary dike of sandbags to keep the river from flooding the town.
- a ditch.
- a bank of earth formed of material being excavated.
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diked, dik·ing.
- to furnish or drain with a dike.
- to enclose, restrain, or protect by a dike: to dike a tract of land.
dike 近义词
embankment
更多dike例句
- By adopting a number of new tactics to staying informed, we can build a dike to keep out the flood of misinformation.
- That standard works fine when you’re building a dike in areas where a flood won’t cause enormous damage, like an area of farmland.
- In December 2008, four months after Andrea’s second relative died of leukemia, more than a billion gallons of coal ash slurry broke through a dike at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant.
- Without system-level support, individual decision-making is like the proverbial Dutch boy with his finger in the dike.
- A whole population of 11 million with every iron in the fire doubling as a finger in a dike.
- The GOP, meanwhile, paints itself as sticking a finger in the dike of massive Obama spending.
- It's a sort of finger in the dike approach with no clear vision, but maybe no one has a clear vision.
- When riding or walking along upon such a dike on one side, down a long slope, they have a glimpse of water between the trees.
- The dike was very regular in its form, and it was ornamented with two rows of trees along the top of it.
- The dike was very broad, and the descent from it to the low land on each side was very gradual.
- They had a delightful drive back, going as they came, on the top of the great sea dike.
- The passengers that came in the ferry boat divided into two parties, as they came down the dike.