Definitions for spike
spaɪkspike

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spikenoun

   a transient variation in voltage or current

2. spikenoun

   sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes

   "spikes provide greater traction"

3. ear, spike, capitulumnoun

   fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn

4. spikenoun

   (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis

5. spikenoun

   a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline

   "the seismograph showed a sharp spike in response to the temblor"

6. spike heel, spike, stiletto heelnoun

   a very high narrow heel on women's shoes

7. spikenoun

   each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves)

   "the second baseman sharpened his spikes before every game"; "golfers' spikes damage the putting greens"

8. spikenoun

   a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)

9. spikenoun

   a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)

   "one of the spikes impaled him"

10. spike, spindlenoun

    any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object

    "the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order"

11. spikeverb

    a large stout nail

    "they used spikes to fasten the rails to a railroad tie"

12. spikeverb

    stand in the way of

13. transfix, impale, empale, spikeverb

    pierce with a sharp stake or point

    "impale a shrimp on a skewer"

14. spikeverb

    secure with spikes

15. spike, spike outverb

    bring forth a spike or spikes

    "my hyacinths and orchids are spiking now"

16. spike, lace, fortifyverb

    add alcohol to (beverages)

    "the punch is spiked!"

17. spikeverb

    manifest a sharp increase

    "the voltage spiked"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spikenoun

   A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.

2. spikenoun

   Anything resembling such a nail in shape.

3. spikenoun

   An ear of grain.

4. spikenoun

   A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.

5. spikenoun

   (in plural spikes; informal) Running shoes with spikes in the soles.

6. spikenoun

   A sharp peak in a graph.

7. spikenoun

   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.

8. spikenoun

   An adolescent male deer.

9. spikenoun

   a surge in power.

10. spikeverb

    To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance in a drink that previously did not contain such substances.

11. spikeverb

    To add a small amount of one substance to another.

    The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents.

12. spikeverb

    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.

13. spikeverb

    To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.

14. spikeverb

    To decide not to publish or make public.

15. spikenoun

    (slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.

16. Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spikenoun

   Etymology: spica, Latin.

   1. An ear of corn.

   Drawn up in ranks and files, the bearded spikes
   Guard it from birds as with a stand of pikes. John Denham.

   Suffering not the yellow beards to rear,
   He tramples down the spikes, and intercepts the year. Dryd.

   The gleaners,
   Spike after spike, their sparing harvest pick. James Thomson.

   2. A long nail of iron or wood; a long rod of iron sharpened: so called from its similitude to an ear.

   For the body of the ships, no nation equals England for the oaken timber; and we need not borrow of any other iron for spikes, or nails to fasten them. Francis Bacon.

   The head of your medal would be seen to more advantage, if it were placed on a spike of the tower. Dryden.

   He wears on his head the corona radiata, another type of his divinity: the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun. Addison.

2. Spikenoun

   The name of a plant. This is a smaller species of lavender.

   The oil of spike is much used by our artificers in their varnishes; but it is generally adulterated. John Hill, Mat. Med.

3. To Spikeverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To fasten with long nails.

   Lay long planks upon them, pinned or spiked down to the pieces of oak on which they lie. Joseph Moxon, Mech. Exer.

   Lay long planks upon them, spiking or pinning them down fast. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   2. To set with spikes.

   A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, was suddenly frighted down, and in his falling he was catched by those spikes. Richard Wiseman.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spike

   A spike is a sharp point or peak, often referring to a sudden increase or sharp rise in something such as data, numbers, or measurements. It can also refer to a physical sharp point, often seen in sports gear or equipment. In the context of neurons, a spike refers to a sudden change in voltage. In media or literature, a spike can also refer to a sudden surge of interest or attention.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spikenoun

   a sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward

2. Spikenoun

   anything resembling such a nail in shape

3. Spikenoun

   an ear of corn or grain

4. Spikenoun

   a kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis

5. Spikeverb

   to fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks

6. Spikeverb

   to set or furnish with spikes

7. Spikeverb

   to fix on a spike

8. Spikeverb

   to stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it

9. Spikenoun

   spike lavender. See Lavender

10. Etymology: [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spike

   Spike, played by James Marsters, is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Spike is a vampire and played various roles on the shows, ranging from villain to anti-hero. For Marsters, the role as Spike began a career in science fiction television, becoming "the obvious go-to guy for US cult [television]". For creator Whedon, Spike is the "most fully developed" of his characters. The character had intended to be a brief villain, with Whedon originally adamant to not have another major "romantic vampire" character like Angel - Marsters says "Spike was supposed to be dirty and evil, punk rock, and then dead" - but the character ended up staying for the second season, and then returning in the fourth to replace Cordelia as "the character who told Buffy she was stupid and about to die". Within the series' narrative, William was an unsuccessful aspiring poet in the Victorian era who was mocked and called "William the Bloody" because of his "bloody awful" poetry. Sired by the vampire Drusilla, William became an unusually passionate and romantic vampire. Alongside Drusilla and Angelus, William acquired the nickname Spike for his preferred method of torturing people with railroad spikes. He was noted for killing two vampire Slayers; one at the end of the 1800s during the Boxer Rebellion, the other in 1970s New York, where Spike acquired his trademark leather duster. During the second season of the series Spike comes to Sunnydale hoping to kill a third Slayer, Buffy Summers, with whom he later forges an uneasy alliance. Over the course of Buffy, Spike falls in love with the Slayer, reacquires his soul to prove himself to Buffy and dies a hero in the show's series finale before being resurrected in the fifth season of spin-off series Angel.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Spike

   spīk, n. an ear of corn: (bot.) an inflorescence in which sessile flowers, or flowers having very short stalks, are arranged around an axis: a small pointed rod: a large nail.—v.t. to set with spikes: to stop the vent of with a cast-iron spike driven in hard and then broken off, as by soldiers obliged to abandon their own guns or unable to remove those of the enemy which they have captured.—adjs. Spī′cate, Spī′cose, Spī′cous, having spikes or ears, like corn; Spicif′erous, bearing spikes: having spurs; Spī′ciform, having the form of a spike.—n. Spicos′ity, state of being spicous or eared.—adjs. Spic′ūlar, resembling a dart: in the shape of, or having, sharp points; Spic′ūlate, covered with, or divided into, minute points.—n. Spic′ūle (bot.), a little spike—also Spic′ūla: a minute, slender granule or point.—adjs. Spic′ulīform; Spicūlig′enous, Spicūlif′erous, producing spicules; Spic′ūlōse, Spic′ūlous, having spicules.—ns. Spic′ūlum, a spicule; Spike′bill, a merganser, a sawbill: the marbled godwit.—p.adj. Spiked, furnished, fastened, or stopped with spikes.—ns. Spike′-extract′or, an apparatus for drawing out spikes, as from railway-ties; Spike′-fish, a kind of sail-fish; Spike′-grass, one of several American grasses with conspicuous spikelets of flowers; Spike′let, a little spike; Spike′-nail, a spike; Spike′-oil, the oil of spike, a species of lavender; Spike′-plank, a platform before the mizzen-mast of a vessel, used in Arctic voyages.—adj. Spī′ky, furnished with spikes: having a sharp point. [L. spica, an ear of corn.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. spike

   1. To defeat a selection mechanism by introducing a (sometimes temporary) device that forces a specific result. The word is used in several industries; telephone engineers refer to spiking a relay by inserting a pin to hold the relay in either the closed or open state, and railroaders refer to spiking a track switch so that it cannot be moved. In programming environments it normally refers to a temporary change, usually for testing purposes (as opposed to a permanent change, which would be called hardwired). 2. [borderline techspeak] A visible peak in an otherwise rather constant graph (e.g. a sudden surge in line voltage, an unexpected short “high” on a logical line in a circuit). Hackers frequently use this for a sudden short increase in some quantity such as system load or network traffic.

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. SPIKE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Spike is ranked #36736 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Spike surname appeared 608 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Spike.
   
   81.7% or 497 total occurrences were White.
   12.9% or 79 total occurrences were Black.
   3.1% or 19 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.1% or 7 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.9% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

Matched Categories

1. • Bar
   • Botany
   • Change
   • Cooking
   • Electrical Discharge
   • Heel
   • Implement
   • Increase
   • Inflorescence
   • Point
   • Projection
   • Rise
   • Secure
   • Sports Equipment

Anagrams for spike »

1. pikes

2. kepis

3. kipes

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of spike in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of spike in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of spike in a Sentence

1. Sudhir Chaub:

   This is not right on part of media to show artificial largest Covid cases on other days because they need to show highest spike only on weekends to spread panic and fear in public to increase vaccine sale.

2. Gentle Blythe:

   We were working hard to come to an agreement with our labor partners to ready our facilities. And then, at around that same time, we had a big spike in cases.

3. Scott Rodriguez:

   We know that beef futures spike during a certain period of time, that's probably not the best time to be running pepperoni items.

4. Superintendent David Brown:

   The criminal justice ecosystem, however, was profoundly impacted and disrupted by the global coronavirus pandemic and the death of George Floyd, our Chicago police officers faced an unprecedented set of circumstances in contending with a spike in violent crime, made even more difficult by having to contend with a health pandemic while facing extended periods of heightened civil unrest and looting.

5. Rodrigo Catril:

   Markets appear to be coming around to the Fed narrative that a burst in inflation is only likely to be temporary, a temporary spike in prices should not instigate a removal of stimulatory policies from central banks.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=spike
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Spike
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=spike
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spike
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=spike
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=spike
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Spike
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html