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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dike/#m1)

2) (old use) A dike can also be a ditch dug to drain water from land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dike/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dike/#x1)
- She came to the dike and called out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dike/#x2)
- The mother sat on the dike and wailed for her child. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dike/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dike» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dike/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.