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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | embankment |
| Synonyms: | bank, barrier, causeway, channel, ditch, dyke, levee, watercourse |
| Main Entry: | dam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | embankment, wall |
| Synonyms: | bank, barrage, barrier, dike, ditch, gate, grade, hindrance, levee, milldam, millpond, obstruction, weir |
| Notes: | a dam is a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water while damn is used as an expletive meaning cursed, condemned to hell |
| Main Entry: | defense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | armament; protection system |
| Synonyms: | aegis, armor, arms, barricade, bastille, bastion, bulwark, buttress, citadel, cover, deterrence, dike, embankment, fastness, fence, fort, fortification, fortress, garrison, guard, immunity, munitions, palisade, parapet, position, protection, rampart, redoubt, resistance, safeguard, security, shelter, shield, stockade, stronghold, trench, wall, ward, warfare, weaponry, weapons |
| Antonyms: | desertion, flight, surrender |
Example Sentences
- She said a large pump and suction trucks would remove the jet fuel from inside the dike by tonight.
- The sand dike that contains it is by volume one of the largest dams in the world.
- There's an irreparable crack in the dike now, and it won't stop growing till the dike is washed away.
| Main Entry: | ditch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gulley |
| Synonyms: | canal, channel, chase, cut, dike, drain, excavation, furrow, gutter, mine, moat, trench, watercourse |
| Main Entry: | fence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | barrier used to enclose a piece of land |
| Synonyms: | Cyclone, backstop, balustrade, bar, barbed wire, barricade, block, boards, chains, defense, dike, guard, hedge, net, paling, palisade, pickets, posts, rail, railing, rampart, roadblock, shield, stakes, stockade, stop, wall |
| Main Entry: | furrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ditch |
| Synonyms: | channel, corrugation, crease, crinkle, crow's-foot, dike, fluting, fold, groove, gutter, hollow, line, plica, rabbet, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruck, rut, seam, trench, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | gutter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ditch |
| Synonyms: | channel, conduit, culvert, dike, drain, duct, eaves, fosse, funnel, gully, moat, pipe, runnel, sewer, sluice, spout, sulcation, trench, trough, tube, watercourse |
| Main Entry: | trench |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ditch, channel dug in earth |
| Synonyms: | arroyo, canal, cut, depression, dike, drain, drill, dugout, earthwork, entrenchment, excavation, fosse, foxhole, furrow, gorge, gulch, gully, gutter, hollow, main, moat, pit, rut, sink, trough, tube, waterway |
| Main Entry: | trough |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gutter, depression |
| Synonyms: | canal, channel, crib, cup, dike, dip, ditch, duct, flume, furrow, gully, hollow, manger, moat, trench, watercourse |
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