2007-07-02 07:33:02 · 5 answers · asked by eric s 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
A levee (natural or manmade) is something that holds water back when it is at flood stage. A dyke holds water back all the time because the area its guarding is below the water's level.
2007-07-02 07:37:01 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
A levee is a man-made ridge along the side of a watercourse--usually both sides--designed to contain flooding in the watercourse.
"Dyke" is a slang term for a homosexual woman.
If you mean "dike," a dike is distinct from a levee in that it isn't necessarily alongside a river or stream, which a levee always is. A dike may be built in any direction or shape, as in Holland, where dikes are built to reclaim farmland from shallow water at the ocean shoreline.
2007-07-02 08:02:41 · answer #2 · answered by aviophage 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it is "dike" and there is not much difference ...
dike (or dyke) is an artificial earthen wall, constructed as a defense or as a boundary. It is also known in American English as a levee. The best known form of dike is a construction built along the edge of a body of water, to prevent it from flooding onto an adjacent lowland. Dikes can be mainly found along the sea, where dunes are not strong enough, along rivers for protection against high-floods, along lakes or along polders. Furthermore, dikes have been built for the purpose of empoldering, or as a boundary for an inundation area. The latter can be a controlled inundation by the military or a measure to prevent inundation of a larger area surrounded by dikes. Dikes have also been built as field boundaries and as military defences. More on this type of dike can be found in the article on dry-stone walls.
Dikes can be permanent earthworks or emergency constructions (often of sandbags) built hastily in a flood emergency. Where such an emergency bank is an addition atop an existing dike, it is known as a cradge.
2007-07-02 07:44:33 · answer #3 · answered by Indiana Frenchman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Geolicious has a good answer. However, a dyke is a lesbian; a dike is the proper term for such a structure.
2007-07-02 07:44:00 · answer #4 · answered by JakeZula 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
DYKE is a perfectly acceptable alternate spelling of DIKE, even in American English. See Webster's Dictionary. Please take a minute to look up a word before correcting others.
2015-02-05 20:57:38 · answer #5 · answered by McFly 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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Lesbian is the general term for a female who prefers other females. "Dyke" connotes a specific type, the dominant or masculine lesbian.
2016-04-03 23:28:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋