Dike vs. Sill

Dikeverb

: to dig a ditch; to raise an earthwork; etc.

Sillnoun

(architecture) (also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.

‘She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.’;

Dikeverb

To be well dressed.

Sillnoun

(construction) A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings or lying on the ground in earth-fast construction and bearing the upright portion of a frame. Also called a ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole-plate, mudsill. An interrupted sill fits between posts instead of being below and supporting the posts in timber framing.

Dikenoun

A well-dressed man.

Sillnoun

(geology) A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds.

Dikenoun

Formalwear or other fashionable dress.

Sillnoun

A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

Dikenoun

: a masculine woman; a lesbian.

Sillnoun

(anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.

‘the nasal sill’;

Dikenoun

A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.

‘Little channels or dikes cut to every bed.’;

Sillnoun

The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.

Dikenoun

An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

‘Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides.’;

Sillnoun

(UK) A young herring.

Dikenoun

A wall of turf or stone.

Sillnoun

The shaft or thill of a carriage.

Dikenoun

A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.

Sillnoun

The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.

Dikeverb

To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.

Sillnoun

The shaft or thill of a carriage.

Dikeverb

To drain by a dike or ditch.

Sillnoun

A young herring.

Dikeverb

To work as a ditcher; to dig.

‘He would thresh and thereto dike and delve.’;

Sillnoun

structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure

Dikenoun

offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine

Sillnoun

(geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock

Dikenoun

a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

Dikeverb

enclose with a dike;

‘dike the land to protect it from water’;