dike

4 letters in word "dike": D E I K.

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Words found within dike:

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• Definitions:
• An embankment to confine or control water. Often built along the banks of a river to prevent overflow of lowlands: a levee.
• A tabular intrusive rock that cuts across strata or other structural features of the surrounding rock.
• A long, narrow embankment usually built to protect land from flooding. If built of concrete or masonry the structure is usually referred to as a flood wall. Levees and floodwalls confine streamflow within a specified area to prevent flooding. ...
• Tabular igneous intrusion that cuts across planar bedding or foliation of the surrounding rock.
• A raised bank, typically earthen, constructed along a waterway to impound the water and to prevent flooding.
• A dike is a standard engineered or designed structure constructed to prevent flooding of land. Dikes include many forms of flood protection works. ...
• A barrier constructed to control or confine hazardous substances and prevent them from entering sewers, ditches, streams, or other flowing waters.
• A discordant pluton that is substantially wider than it is thick. Dikes are often steeply inclined or nearly vertical. See also sill. dilatancy The expansion of a rock's volume caused by stress and deformation.
• (Greek) Custom, right, justice; justice personified as a goddess, daughter of Zeus and Themis (Hesiod Theogony 902), sister of the moirae (fates). {SD 2:305n}
• a barrier, usually of earth or stone, for holding back water in order to prevent floods
• A tabular body of rock, usually igneous, that cuts across the structure of adjacent rocks.
• A tabular body of rock hardened from a molten state (igneous intrusion) that has cut across the bedding or alignment of the surrounding rock.
• intrusive igneous rock body formed when magma is squeezed into a vertical crack that cuts across rock layers and hardens
• a crack in the rock that became filled with magma, then cooled. They formed when Stone Mountain had cooled partially from the outside and some cracks reached down to the still - liquid magma. You can determine the relative age sequence of dikes by studying how they cross-cut one another.(picture)
• to enclose, protect, or provide with a dike, an embankment built to prevent flooding.
• a soil embankment constructed to prevent inundation by an adjacent area. A dike prevents stream erosion and localized scour and directs the current so that debris will not accumulate on bottomland adjacent to approach embankments or portions of the structure. ...
• a long mass of igneous rock that was intruded into a crosscutting fissure in older rock; a discordant intrusive body of tabular rock. [AHDOS]
• Brass or copper sold as scrap. When this term was used the metal had usually been stole, or 'promoted'.
• A tabular sheet of intrusive igneous rock that cuts across the structure of the intruded rock or cuts massive rock.
• wall that holds water on the cranberry bed
• A mass of igneous rock that has solidified in a wide fissure or crack in the earth's crust. (See fig. 8, p. 54; Pl. VII, p. 53.)
• A tabular mass discordant with either bedding or foliation of surrounding country rocks.
• Greek term for "the natural order of things."
• is a tabular, typically vertical intrusion (discordant).
• (Levee) A long low embankment whose height is usually less than 4 to 5 meters and whose length is more than 10 or 15 times the maximum height. Usually applied to embankments or structures built to protect land From flooding. ...
• butch: offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water" dam: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
• A dike or dyke in geology refers to an intrusive igneous body. The thickness is usually much smaller than the other two dimensions. Thickness can vary from sub-centimeter scale to many meters in thickness and the lateral dimensions can extend over many kilometers. ...
• Dike, (???? - Greek for justice) the Greek goddess of moral justice, one of the three second generation Horae. She ruled over human justice; her mother (Themis) ruled over divine justice. Dike was born a mortal and Zeus placed her on earth to keep mankind just. ...
• A dike (or dyke) is an artificial earthen wall, constructed as a defense or as a boundary. It is also known in American English as a levee. The best known form of dike is a construction built along the edge of a body of water, to prevent it from flooding onto an adjacent lowland. ...
• In Greek mythology, the Horae were three goddesses controlling orderly life. They were daughters of Zeus and Themis, half-sisters to the Moirae. ...

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