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The dike breaks and floods caused widespread devastation in Zeeland and Holland.
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The city is building a dike around the rest of the South Omaha sewage facility.
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A dike will circle Oxbow and the surrounding towns in hopes of protecting them.
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In the struggle to contain SARS, Ma Lin is the man with his finger in the dike.
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The polder lies lower than the surrounding water on the other side of the dike.
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Sadly, battling health-care scammers is a lot like trying to plug holes in a dike.
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No. But they've plugged the dike until reinforcements come in 2009 and beyond.
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Dike is an all-state candidate after averaging 16 points and 15 rebounds per game.
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Demke says the dike was planned as extra protection but it's no longer needed.
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- Butch: (slang) offensive term 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 levee, levu00E9e (/u02C8lu025Bvi/; French:u00A0), dike, dyke, embankment, floodbank or stopbank is an elongated naturally occurring ridge or artificially constructed fill or wall, which regulates water levels. It is usually earthen and often parallel to the course of a river in its floodplain or along low-lying coastlines.
- A dike or dyke in geology is a type of sheet intrusion referring to any geologic body that cuts discordantly across * planar wall rock structures, such as bedding or foliation * massive rock formations, like igneous/magmatic intrusions and salt diapirs.
- In ancient Greek culture, Diku0113 (English pronunciation: /u02C8diu02D0keu026A/ or /u02C8du026Akiu02D0/; Greek: u0394u03AFu03BAu03B7, English translation: "justice") was the goddess of justice and the spirit of moral order and fair judgement based on immemorial custom, in the sense of socially enforced norms and conventional rules. According to Hesiod (Theogony, l. 901), she was fathered by Zeus upon his second consort, Themis...
- In Greek mythology the Horae (/u02C8hu0254u02D0riu02D0/ or /u02C8hu0254u02D0rau026A/) or Hours (Greek: u1F6Fu03C1u03B1u03B9, Hu014Drai, pronouncedu00A0, "seasons") were the goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of time. They were originally the personifications of nature in its different seasonal aspects, but in later times they were regarded as goddesses of order in general and natural justice...
- 99 Dike is a quite large and dark main-belt asteroid. Dike was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on May 28, 1868. It was his first asteroid discovery. It is named after Dike, the Greek goddess of moral justice.
- (Dikes (tool)) Diagonal pliers (or wire cutters or diagonal cutting pliers) are pliers intended for the cutting of wire (they are generally not used to grab or turn anything). ...
