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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dike \Dike\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Diked}; p. pr & vb n. {Diking}.] [OE. diken, dichen, AS d[=i]cian to dike. See {Dike}.] 1. To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank. 2. To drain by a dike or ditch. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dike \Dike\, v. i. To work as a ditcher; to dig. [Obs.] He would thresh and thereto dike and delve. --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dike \Dike\, n. [OE. dic, dike, diche, ditch, AS d?c dike, ditch; akin to D. dijk dike, G. deich, and prob. teich pond, Icel. d?ki dike, ditch, Dan. dige; perh. akin to Gr ? (for ?) wall, and even E. dough; or perh. to Gr ? pool, marsh. Cf {Ditch}.] 1. A ditch; a channel for water made by digging. Little channels or dikes cut to every bed. --Ray. 2. An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. --Longfellow. 3. A wall of turf or stone. [Scot.] 4. (Geol.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dike n : a barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea [syn: {dam}, {dyke}, {levee}] v : enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water" [syn: {dyke}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Dike, IA (city, FIPS 21405) Location: 42.46310 N, 92.63014 W Population (1990): 875 (355 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50624 Dike, TX Zip code(s): 75437 From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: dike vt To remove or disable a portion of something as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program. A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out". (The implication is that it is usually more effective to attack software problems by reducing complexity than by increasing it.) The word `dikes' is widely used among mechanics and engineers to mean `diagonal cutters', esp. the heavy-duty metal-cutting version, but may also refer to a kind of wire-cutters used by electronics techs. To `dike something out' means to use such cutters to remove something Indeed, the TMRC Dictionary defined dike as "to attack with dikes". Among hackers this term has been metaphorically extended to informational objects such as sections of code. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: dike To remove or disable a portion of something as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program. A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out". (The implication is that it is usually more effective to attack software problems by reducing complexity than by increasing it.) The word dikes" is widely used among mechanics and engineers to mean "diagonal cutters", especially the heavy-duty metal-cutting version, but may also refer to a kind of wire-cutters used by electronics technicians. To "dike something out" means to use such cutters to remove something Indeed, the TMRC Dictionary defined dike as "to attack with dikes". Among hackers this term has been metaphorically extended to informational objects such as sections of code. [{Jargon File}]
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