[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an embankment for controlling or holding back the waters of the sea or a river:They built a temporary dike of sandbags to keep the river from flooding the town.", "a ditch.", "a bank of earth formed of material being excavated.", "a causeway.", "British Dialect.a low wall or fence, especially of earth or stone, for dividing or enclosing land.", "an obstacle; barrier.", "Geology.a long, narrow, cross-cutting mass of igneous rock intruded into a fissure in older rock.a similar mass of rock composed of other kinds of material, as sandstone.", "a long, narrow, cross-cutting mass of igneous rock intruded into a fissure in older rock.", "a similar mass of rock composed of other kinds of material, as sandstone.", "Australian Slang.a urinal."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to furnish or drain with a dike.", "to enclose, restrain, or protect by a dike:to dike a tract of land."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["dyke2 ."]}]