dikeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dike (複数形 dikes)

1. (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.
   • 1994, John H. Makin, Norman J. Ornstein, Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What We Can Do about It, New York, NY: Times Books, →ISBN, page 52:

     In 1574, the duke of Alva laid siege to Leiden to gain control of Holland's most beautiful and prosperous city. To relieve the siege, William of Orange and his followers opened the city's protective dikes to flush out—literally—the surrounding Spanish forces.

派生語

• fill-dike

動詞

dike (三人称単数 現在形 dikes, 現在分詞 diking, 過去形および過去分詞形 diked)

1. (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.
   • 1996 September 27, Michael Miner, “WVON Won't Take the Bait”, in The Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Lakeside water-filtration plants, an 11,000-acre diked airport east of 55th Street, slash-and-bulldoze highway projects through Jackson and Lincoln parks—these and many another grandiose project leapt from the sketchbooks of city planners.

   • 2001 November 16, Karen F. Schmidt, Ecology: A True-Blue Vision for the Danube‎^[2], volume 294, number 5546, DOI:10.1126/science.294.5546.1444, pages 1444-1447:

     In 1983, dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decreed that the Romanian Danube delta, one of Europe's largest wetlands, be diked for growing rice and maize.

語源 2

Of uncertain etymology, first attested in mid-19th century Virginia. Possibly a variant of deck and deck out or influenced by them.

動詞

dike (三人称単数 現在形 dikes, 現在分詞 diking, 過去形および過去分詞形 diked)

1. (US dialect slang, obsolete) To be well dressed.

派生語

• diked out
• diked up

名詞

dike (複数形 dikes)

1. (US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
2. (US dialect slang, obsolete) Formalwear or other fashionable dress.

派生語

• out on a dike

語源 3

See dyke.

名詞

dike (複数形 dikes)

1. Alternative form of dyke: (slang, usually derogatory) a masculine woman; a lesbian.

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary. "dike, n.² and v.²".
• Oxford English Dictionary. "dike | dyke, n.³".

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