Dike and Line

Dike

Dike noun - A bank of earth constructed to control water.
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Synonyms for Dike

Line and dike are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Line" instead a noun "Dike".

Nearby Words: diked, diking

Line

Line noun - A series of persons or things arranged one behind another.

Dike and line are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dike" instead a noun "Line".

Nearby Words: lined, linear, lineup, lineage, lineal

Both words in one sentence

  • Dying Alone He was not alone; there were comrades with him—the boy with his finger in the dike, Colonel Bowie, too ill to move but insisting that he be carried across the line, the dying Captain of the Chesapeake still with deathless challenge on his lips, Rodger Young peering into the gloom.
    Source: Dying Alone
  • This results in him being pulled off the line and the incompetent Lt Dike is put in charge of Easy Company - just in time for the horror of Bastogne and the Battle of the Bulge, during which many men lost their lives.
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