dike

«dike» in Mova's school dictionary: a long bank of earth or stone built to keep the sea or a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (dike, dikes)

meaning for a pupil

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 →

2) (old use) A dike can also be a ditch dug to drain water from land. tree →

sense 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 →
• She came to the dike and called out. tree →
• The mother sat on the dike and wailed for her child. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dike» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.