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 Translation for 'Dike' from English to Finnish
NOUN   a dike | dikes
VERB   to dike | diked | diked
diking | dikes
SYNO butch | dam | dike | ...
myt.
Dike {noun}
Dike
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Translation for 'Dike' from English to Finnish

Dike
Dike {noun}myt.
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Usage Examples English
  • Langely Dike and Hardley Dike on the River Yare are both part of the Norfolk Broads waterways, however offering only private moorings.
  • The "Wehl" behind the dike in Warwerort serves as another flood reminder.
  • A dike couldn't always be moved seawards. Especially in the southwest river delta it was often the case that the primary sea dike was undermined by a tidal channel.
  • A sleeper dike (in Dutch "slaperdijk") is a dike which does not normally face water, but serves as a backup if a "front-line" dike in front of it breaks.
  • The Herbert Hoover Dike is a dike around the waters of Lake Okeechobee in Florida.

  • In 1871 and 1872, a dike was built between Ameland and the mainland by a society for the reclamation of Frisian land from the sea.
  • They are two polders with a joint hydrological infrastructure, with a dividing dike in the middle, the "Knardijk", that will keep one polder safe if the other is flooded.
  • In late February or early March 1945 Dutch workers started to undermine the dike around the polder under German command.
  • Opperdoes used to be located 4 or 5 kilometres from the sea-dike that existed around 781.
  • The Firbeck Dike flows through the hamlet. Stone Mill, dating back to 17th century, still stands on the dike.

  • Dike–New Hartford Community School District (DNH) is a rural public school district headquartered in Dike, Iowa.
  • The river Wümme is protected by a dike. Until 1902 there was no lock available to pass the dike, and the barges had to pass the dike by a slip mechanism, driven by a manually operated winch.
  • Dike is an unincorporated community in Hopkins County, Texas, United States. Dike has a post office with the ZIP code 75437.
  • Dike [...] (minor planet designation: 99 Dike) is a quite large and dark main-belt asteroid.
  • Nowadays the dike ends at the near Gouda; from 1856 till 1936 the dike ended at an upstream lock called .

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