Levee vs. Dike

An embankment raised to prevent a river from overflowing.

An embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods.

A small ridge or raised area bordering an irrigated field.

Chiefly British A low wall, often of sod, dividing or enclosing lands.

A landing place on a river; a pier.

A barrier blocking a passage, especially for protection.

A reception held, as by royalty, upon arising from bed.

A raised causeway.

A formal reception, as at a royal court.

A ditch; a channel.

To provide with a levee.

(Geology)A long mass of igneous rock that cuts across the structure of adjacent rock.

An elevated geographical feature.

Variant of dyke2.

An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.

To protect, enclose, or provide with a dike.

(US) The steep bank of a river.

To drain with dikes or ditches.

(US) The border of an irrigated field.

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

(US) A pier or other landing place on a river.

A ditch; a channel for water made by digging.

(obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.

An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.

A reception of visitors held after getting up.

A wall of turf or stone.

A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.

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

To keep within a channel by means of levees.

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

(transitive) To attend the levee or levees of.

To drain by a dike or ditch.

The act of rising.

To work as a ditcher; to dig.

A morning assembly or reception of visitors, - in distinction from a soirée, or evening assembly; a matinée; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.

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An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.

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

To attend the levee or levees of.

Enclose with a dike;

To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river.

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