"dyke up" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dykes up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dyking up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dyked up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dyked up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "dyke up (third-person singular simple present dykes up, present participle dyking up, simple past and past participle dyked up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Walls and fences",
          "orig": "en:Walls and fences",
          "parents": [
            "Buildings and structures",
            "Architecture",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912 December, Hilaire Belloc, chapter II, in The River of London, London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, →OCLC, page 21:",
          "text": "Plumstead Marshes and Barking Level made one morass, four miles wide at least, or nearer five, drowned twice a day into a great level sheet of water, until some civilisation came to dyke up the tidal stream and confine it to the central bed, which it had scoured in its windings through such a desolation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 June 24, J-F Marquis, “Disaster and underdevelopment”, in International Viewpoint, number 209, Paris: Presse-Edition-Communication, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:",
          "text": "Following the spate of 1988, on September 29 of that year Flench president François Mitterrand proposed to the UN General Assembly nothing less than the dyking up of the three rivers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Olivier Tessier, chapter 4, in Mart A. Stewart, Peter A. Coclains, editors, Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 66–67:",
          "text": "The Nguyễn dynasty allocated a massive financial investment to the domain of hydraulics that made it possible to dyke up the whole Delta. This occurred despite the fact that the country’s capital was transferred to Huế, after centuries of being embedded in the heart of the Red River Delta.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To build a dyke along (a body of water or a piece of land)."
      ],
      "id": "en-dyke_up-en-verb-96NVOtoN",
      "links": [
        [
          "dyke",
          "dyke"
        ],
        [
          "body of water",
          "body of water"
        ],
        [
          "land",
          "land"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To build a dyke along (a body of water or a piece of land)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "english": "standard US spelling",
          "word": "dike up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dyke up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dykes up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dyking up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dyked up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dyked up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "dyke up (third-person singular simple present dykes up, present participle dyking up, simple past and past participle dyked up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"up\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Walls and fences"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912 December, Hilaire Belloc, chapter II, in The River of London, London & Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, →OCLC, page 21:",
          "text": "Plumstead Marshes and Barking Level made one morass, four miles wide at least, or nearer five, drowned twice a day into a great level sheet of water, until some civilisation came to dyke up the tidal stream and confine it to the central bed, which it had scoured in its windings through such a desolation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 June 24, J-F Marquis, “Disaster and underdevelopment”, in International Viewpoint, number 209, Paris: Presse-Edition-Communication, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:",
          "text": "Following the spate of 1988, on September 29 of that year Flench president François Mitterrand proposed to the UN General Assembly nothing less than the dyking up of the three rivers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Olivier Tessier, chapter 4, in Mart A. Stewart, Peter A. Coclains, editors, Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 66–67:",
          "text": "The Nguyễn dynasty allocated a massive financial investment to the domain of hydraulics that made it possible to dyke up the whole Delta. This occurred despite the fact that the country’s capital was transferred to Huế, after centuries of being embedded in the heart of the Red River Delta.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To build a dyke along (a body of water or a piece of land)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dyke",
          "dyke"
        ],
        [
          "body of water",
          "body of water"
        ],
        [
          "land",
          "land"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To build a dyke along (a body of water or a piece of land)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "standard US spelling",
      "word": "dike up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dyke up"
}