SPIKE
\spˈa͡ɪk], \spˈaɪk], \s_p_ˈaɪ_k]\
Definitions of SPIKE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
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sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes; "spikes provide greater traction"
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a long metal nail
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any holding device consisting of a long sharp-pointed object
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a long sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
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a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall
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a transient variation in voltage or current
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(botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
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a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline; "the seismograph showed a sharp spike in response to the temblor"
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manifest a sharp increase; "the voltage spiked"
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secure with spikes
By Princeton University
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fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
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sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes; "spikes provide greater traction"
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a long metal nail
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any holding device consisting of a long sharp-pointed object
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a long sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
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a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall
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a transient variation in voltage or current
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(botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
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An ear of corn or grain.
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A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
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To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
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To set or furnish with spikes.
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To fix on a spike.
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To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
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Spike lavender. See Lavender.
By Oddity Software
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A kind of large nail; any sharp, slender object; as, the spikes in a fence; a certain kind of flower cluster; an ear of grain.
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To fasten or equip with large nails or sharp points; to run through with a sharp point; to close the mouth of by plugging; said of cannon.
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Spiky.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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In botany, an indefinite inflorescence, in which the flowers are sessile on the central axis, differing from a raceme in which the flowers are stalked.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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An ear of grain: (bot.) an inflorescence, of which the flowers are sessile, or issue directly from a simple undivided axis.
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A small pointed rod: a large nail.
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To set with spikes: to stop the vent of with a spike.
By Daniel Lyons
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An ear of corn or anything like it; pointed rod; large nail.
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To fasten with a spike; stop the vent of with a spike.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To fasten or provide with spikes; stop with a spike, as the vent of a cannon; disable.
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A stout, large nail.
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An ear, as of grain.
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An elongated flower-cluster.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A large nail or peg; an ear of corn or grain; a species of inflorescence in which the flowers are sessile round an axis.
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To fasten with spikes; to stop the vent of a cannon with a spike. See Spicate.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A large nail; a pointed bar of iron, sometimes of wood; in bot., an inflorescence consisting of numerous flowers, sessile, on an axis or single stem, as in the wheat and lavender.
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To fasten with spikes or large nails; to set with spikes; to stop the vent of a cannon with a spike or long nail.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
