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Meanings of dyke in английском
An artificial wall, embankment, ridge, or mound, usually of earth or rock fill, built around a relatively flat, low-lying area to protect it from flooding.
Synonyms
Examples for "dam"
Examples for "dam"
1
Sustainable dam management therefore has a key role in achieving ecological targets.
2
Two days later the signal was given and the dam was destroyed.
3
The dam will provide drinking water and hydroelectric power for the region.
4
Desa let his parents' house to seasonal laborers working on the dam.
5
Grant chose a seat that allowed a good view of the dam.
1
If she wanted to look butch, she would need to try harder.
2
I always think I'll be sort of smooth and butch and graceful.
3
He'd probably first thought Isaac was a butch girl in a tux.
4
It preferred to put its faith in the butch All-Road A6 estate.
5
To help butch up the grill experience invest in pop culture grill kit.
1
He was not worried that the water would actually breach the dike.
2
What's going to happen to the dike, after two months of floodwater?
3
If the men could touch the dike before the fire, they won.
4
Your argument about the perpendicularity of the dike strikes me as good.
5
Grant guessed it would take four more passes to open the dike.
1
The group asks, did he expect a gang of man-hating bulldykes getting together for some hot girl-on-girl rug munching?
Usage of dyke in английском
1
The Makololo guided the canoes admirably through the opening in the dyke.
2
No time was lost in breaking through the dyke in several places.
3
The flood-battered Changkai dyke near Fuzhou suffered a fresh breach on Wednesday.
4
I read in the paper that you're some sort of fucking dyke.
5
On either side of the dyke was the water, black and silent.
6
She glanced down at Viktoria Viktorsson-knownas Double- Vand100 percent dyke.
7
A wooden bridge spanned the dyke and led to a wide gate.
8
He said farewell, slid down into the dyke again, and swam across.
9
Let me bide with the other boys in here ahint the dyke!
10
Nobody'd believe a story like yours except a dyke who shaves dogs.
11
Our brilliant Government volunteered us to stick our finger in the dyke.
12
It had lain in a dyke for at least two years, he said.
13
The dyke carried the outflow from apparatus used for cleaning and preserving vegetables.
14
The extent of dyke now reaches two hundred and thirty miles.
15
It leaped the shoulder of the dyke and-crewand all-dartedout into space.
16
She carried the Lump back across the dyke, then the basket of mushrooms.
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Dyke through the time
Dyke across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common