different between bund vs dike
bund
English
Etymology 1
From German Bund (“alliance, league”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?nd/
Noun
bund (plural bunds)
- A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
- A group of foreign sympathesizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Urdu ???? (band)/Hindi ??? (band), from Persian ????.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?nd/
Noun
bund (plural bunds)
- A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
- (India) A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
Verb
bund (third-person singular simple present bunds, present participle bunding, simple past and past participle bunded)
- To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.
Etymology 3
Variant of bandh, from Hindi ??? (bandh); see that entry for more.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?nd/
Noun
bund (plural bunds)
- (India) Alternative form of bandh
References
- “bund”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
- “bund”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “bund” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2021.
- “bund” in the Collins English Dictionary
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse botn, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b??n?]
Noun
bund c (singular definite bunden, plural indefinite bunde)
- bottom (the lowest part)
Inflection
Derived terms
- bunde ("to touch bottom", i.e. "not out of one's depth")
Verb
bund
- imperative of bunde
Romanian
Etymology
From German Bund.
Noun
bund n (plural bunduri)
- bund
Declension
bund From the web:
- what bundesliga team should i support
- what bundle has the roze skin
- what bundles are in the fortnite item shop
- what bundles does mcdonald's have
- what bundle means
- what bundle is the west side gesture in
- what bundle is the black roze skin in
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dike
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
dike (plural dikes)
- (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.
Verb
dike (third-person singular simple present dikes, present participle diking, simple past and past participle diked)
- (chiefly US) Alternative form of dyke: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.
- {quote-journal|en|date=1996 September 27|author=Michael Miner|url=https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/Archive/abridged2.bat?path=1996/960927/HOTTYPE%7Ctitle=WVON Won't Take the Bait|work=The Chicago Reader|text=Lakeside water-filtration plants, an 11,000-acre diked airport east of 55th Street, slash-and-bulldoze highway projects through Jackson and Lincoln parks—these and many another grandiose project leapt from the sketchbooks of city planners.}}
- {quote-book|en|date=2001 November 16, Karen F. Schmidt|url=http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/294/5546/1444%7Cdoi=10.1126/science.294.5546.1444%7Ctitle=Ecology: A True-Blue Vision for the Danube|work=Science|volume=294|issue=5546|pages=1444-1447|text=In 1983, dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decreed that the Romanian Danube delta, one of Europe's largest wetlands, be diked for growing rice and maize.}}
Etymology 2
Of uncertain etymology, first attested in mid-19th century Virginia. Possibly a variant of deck and deck out or influenced by them.
Verb
dike (third-person singular simple present dikes, present participle diking, simple past and past participle diked)
- (US dialect slang, obsolete) To be well dressed.
Derived terms
- diked out
- diked up
Noun
dike (plural dikes)
- (US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
- (US dialect slang, obsolete) Formalwear or other fashionable dress.
Derived terms
- out on a dike
Etymology 3
See dyke.
Noun
dike (plural dikes)
- Alternative form of dyke: (slang, usually derogatory) a masculine woman; a lesbian.
References
- Oxford English Dictionary. "dike, n.² and v.²".
- Oxford English Dictionary. "dike | dyke, n.³".
Anagrams
- IDEK, idek
Esperanto
Adverb
dike
- thickly
Lindu
Noun
dike
- dog
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse díki, from Proto-Germanic *d?kij?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?eyg?- (whence also English ditch).
Noun
dike n
- ditch; a small canal, for irrigation or drainage
- Han körde i diket med sin nya bil.
- He went off the road with (ditched) his new car.
- Han körde i diket med sin nya bil.
Usage notes
- The phrase "köra i diket" (to ditch) is used also when there's no ditch.
Declension
Related terms
- dika
- dika ut
- dikesgrävning
- dikeskant
- dikeskörning
- dikesren
- dikning
- köra i diket
- täckdike
- utdikning
References
- dike in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
dike From the web:
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