(亦作dike)
1
- a long wall or embankment built to prevent flooding from the sea堤; 坝, 堰。
1.1
- often in place names a low wall or earthwork serving as a boundary or defence（用作分界线或防卫的）矮墙, 低土墙：
Offa's Dyke.
奥发大堤。
1.2
- a causeway堤道。
1.3
- Geology an intrusion of igneous rock cutting across existing strata【地质】岩墙, 岩脉。比较SILL.
2
- a ditch or watercourse沟, 壕沟; 渠。
3
- Austral./NZ informal, dated a toilet〈澳/新西兰, 非正式, 旧〉厕所。
短语
put one's finger in the dyke
- attempt to stem the advance of something undesirable试图阻止。
- ORIGIN: from a story of a small Dutch boy who saved his community from flooding, by placing his finger in a hole in a dyke.
词源
Middle English (denoting a trench or ditch)： from Old Norse dík, related to DITCH. Sense 1 has been influenced by Middle Low German dīk 'dam' and Middle Dutch dijc 'ditch, dam'.