spike

Betekenis (English)

Noun

1. A sort of very large nail.
2. A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.
3. Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
4. An ear of corn or grain.
5. A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
6. (informal) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
7. A sharp peak in a graph.
8. 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.
9. The rod-like protrusion from a woman's high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
10. A long nail for storing papers by skewering them; (by extension) the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
11. 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.
12. An adolescent male deer.
13. (slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.
14. Spike lavender.
15. Synonym of endpin.
16. A mark indicating where a prop or other item should be placed on stage.
17. A small project that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions.

Verb

1. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
2. To set or furnish with spikes.
3. To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
4. To fix on a spike.
5. To discard; to decide not to publish or make public.
6. To increase sharply.
7. To covertly put alcohol or a drug into a drink.
8. To add a small amount of one substance to another.
9. To attack from, usually, above the height of the net with the intent to send the ball straight to the floor of the opponent or off the hands of the opposing block.
10. To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
11. (slang) To slam the football to the ground, usually in celebration of scoring a touchdown, or to stop expiring time on the game clock after snapping the ball as to save time for the losing team to attempt to score the tying or winning points.
12. (slang) To inject a drug with a syringe.

Synonyms

ear

👂

thorn

nail

prickle

barb

spine

large nail

stud

prong

fortify

tack

point

pin

rise

transfix

impale

spindle

spike out

lace

capitulum

stand up

sticker

get up

spike nail

cleat

empale

javelin

stiletto heel

peak

peg

tine

stake

stand

needle

start

dart

🎯

cob

pike

pierce

dog nail

inflorescence

piton

spike heel

spear

overshoot

peak value

perforate

pip

poke

pricker

prod

projection

prove

puncture

quill

raceme

reach

resurgence

resurrection

ride

rise up

rivet

rocket

🚀

score

shaft

shot

skewer

smash

soar

spit

sprig

spur

stab

stem

straighten

stultify

swell

tab

take off

tassel

thorns

tickle

tip

give a start

transgress

uprise

peg out

long nail

pointed end

wave crest

caltrap

acantha

aculeus

rastellus

dog-nail

hooked nail

tenter-hook

dog spike

rail spike

wire nail

rake teeth

ridge of wave

spike pulse

cornear

fasten with nails

pricking pin

spike wave

rake tooth

draw nail

plate nail

railroad spike

accede

road spike

advance

amount

arise

arrow

ascend

billow

block

board

break

bull

calk

caltrop

clamp

🗜️

climb

come up

corn

🌽

corymb

crampon

crowbar

crutch

🩼

dagger

🗡️

defeat

drive

enter

expand

fin

fix

flower

🌸

fringe

gaff

gain

get on

go up

hit

hook

🪝

hypodermic needle

increase

lift

liven

mount

nullify

obstacles

open

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/spaɪk/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: spike

Cognate with Yslands: spík

Cognate with Sweeds: spik

Cognate with Nederlands: spijker

Cognate with Old English: spīcing

Cognate with Latyn: spīca

In summary

From Middle English spike, spyke, spik, from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”). Cognate with Icelandic spík (“spike”), Swedish spik (“spike, nail”), Dutch spijker (“nail”), Old English spīcing (“spike”), and Latin spīca (“ear of corn”), which may have influenced some senses.