Meaning of Spike | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A male nickname.
2. A surname transferred from the nickname.
3. A sort of very large nail.
4. A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
5. Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
   broadly
6. An ear of corn or grain.
7. A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
8. A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
   in-plural, informal
9. A sharp peak in a graph.
10. A surge in power or in the price of a commodity, etc.; any sudden and brief change that would be represented by a sharp peak on a graph.
11. The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
12. A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
13. An attack from, usually, above the height of the net performed with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
14. An adolescent male deer.
15. The casual ward of a workhouse.
    historical, slang
16. Spike lavender.
17. Synonym of endpin.
18. A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
19. A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.
20. An excessively high church Anglican.
21. a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells.

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Examples

“The trap was lined with spikes.”

“He vvears on his head the Corona Radiata, vvhich at that time vvas another type of his Divinity. The ſpikes that ſhoot out from the crovvn vvere to repreſent the rays of the Sun.”

“If the border were shut down, consumers would most likely see an immediate spike in food prices, and supplies of fresh food could dwindle from grocery store shelves in a matter of days.”

“As well as the boom in off-peak leisure numbers, "there has been a big spike in passenger assistance - that's really taken off as well", he continues. "We're probably victims of our own success because we promote this more than we ever used to. We promote how accessible the railways are. I think that this area has more than doubled from pre-COVID levels.”

“It was all true, it appeared. He sat down and wrote it, the editor read it and said: ' We don't use stories like this in this newspaper.' So the story ended up on the spike, reinforcing the principle that wife-swapping, unlike justice, must not be seen to be done.”

“Later I was entrusted with writing the letters to the editor, because nobody else ever wrote to our paper. The editor, Eric Lewis, had a slash and burn style of editing that left its mark on me forever. Most of my stories ended up on the spike.”

“Assuming that word of the death reached the Times's newsroom at all, it would have taken little more than one bleary-eyed night editor who had heard neither of Ventris nor of linear B for the obituary to have been consigned to the spike.”

“Dere's tay spikes, and cocoa spikes, and skilly spikes.”

“oil of spike”

“Sometimes actors set props on the spikes, or sometimes a deckhand will do it, depending on the action of the play.”

“An architectural spike is used to prove that a specific technical approach works. Teams will often do an architectural spike when they have a few different options for designing a specific technical solution, or if they don't know if a certain approach will work.”

“Here we see an Anglo-Catholic spike cocking a snook at authority, getting away with it, and probably exercising an important liturgical and sacramental ministry – at least by his own lights – to some of the troops on the Western Front.”

“This book contains mostly humorous animal poems by poets such as Spike Milligan, Theodore Roethke, and Rudyard Kipling.”

“He was meant to be called Benjamin, but he arrived with a little tuft of hair on top of his head, like a spike, and they called him Spike for three days, and then recalled a romantic, childless afternoon, years earlier, spent watching a matinee revival of She's Gotta Have It.”

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