What does spike mean?
Definitions for spike
spaɪkspike
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word spike.
Princeton's WordNet
spikenoun
a transient variation in voltage or current
spikenoun
sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes
"spikes provide greater traction"
ear, spike, capitulumnoun
fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
spikenoun
(botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
spikenoun
a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline
"the seismograph showed a sharp spike in response to the temblor"
spike heel, spike, stiletto heelnoun
a very high narrow heel on women's shoes
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"
spikenoun
a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
spikenoun
a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)
"one of the spikes impaled him"
spike, spindlenoun
any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object
"the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order"
spikeverb
a large stout nail
"they used spikes to fasten the rails to a railroad tie"
spikeverb
stand in the way of
transfix, impale, empale, spikeverb
pierce with a sharp stake or point
"impale a shrimp on a skewer"
spikeverb
secure with spikes
spike, spike outverb
bring forth a spike or spikes
"my hyacinths and orchids are spiking now"
spike, lace, fortifyverb
add alcohol to (beverages)
"the punch is spiked!"
spikeverb
manifest a sharp increase
"the voltage spiked"
Wiktionary
spikenoun
A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
spikenoun
Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
spikenoun
An ear of grain.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
spikenoun
A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
spikenoun
(in plural spikes; informal) Running shoes with spikes in the soles.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
spikenoun
A sharp peak in a graph.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
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.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
spikenoun
An adolescent male deer.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
spikenoun
a surge in power.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
spikeverb
To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance in a drink that previously did not contain such substances.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
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.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
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.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
spikeverb
To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
spikeverb
To decide not to publish or make public.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
spikenoun
(slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.
Etymology: spīca "ear of grain"
Webster Dictionary
Spikenoun
a sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward
Etymology: [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard.]
Spikenoun
anything resembling such a nail in shape
Etymology: [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard.]
Spikenoun
an ear of corn or grain
Etymology: [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard.]
Spikenoun
a kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
Etymology: [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard.]
Spikeverb
to fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks
Etymology: [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard.]
Spikeverb
to set or furnish with spikes
Etymology: [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard.]
Spikeverb
to fix on a spike
Etymology: [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard.]
Spikeverb
to stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it
Etymology: [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard.]
Spikenoun
spike lavender. See Lavender
Etymology: [Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard.]
Freebase
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 Dictionary
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 Dictionary
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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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of spike in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of spike in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of spike in a Sentence
If you're not a dancer and you start taking some dance classes, you might see really a spike in your gray matter in your brain, you are waking up new neurons and making new connections that you haven't made before.
Kim Jong Un doesn't take very much for malnutrition to spike, kim Jong Un doesn't take long for malnutrition to spike either. So a short and fairly serious shock to the food system of the country can create quite serious implications for the population.
And Eli Bremer decided that Eli Bremer was just going to lord it over me and try to spike the football and grind my face in it and say,' No, you are going to break the law because I'm a sitting congressman,'.
We know mass testing is going to make our numbers spike and might make us look bad, but I don't think there's another prison system in the country that doesn't have large numbers. They just might not be testing as rigorously as we are.
We know that it's a big deal from all of the studies that have been done about the high-potency marijuana that is today's product... we are seeing a spike in marijuana illnesses and addictions.
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Translations for spike
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- تصاعدArabic
- urpa, espigaCatalan, Valencian
- smečCzech
- pig, aks, spiger, top, nagle, spids, pigskoDanish
- Nagel, Spitze, Getreideähre, Stachel, ÄhreGerman
- στάχυGreek
- spikoEsperanto
- punta, espiga, pico, pincho, clavoSpanish
- piikki, tähkäFinnish
- crampons, épiFrench
- פרץHebrew
- schiacciata, picco, scarpa chiodata, lancia, arpione, spiga, chiodo, amento, punta, cerbiattoItalian
- 牡鹿, 針, 穂, スパイク靴, 穂状花序, スパイクJapanese
- ಸ್ಪೈಕ್Kannada
- spicaLatin
- spikeNorwegian
- espicOccitan
- kolecPolish
- espinho, Espigão, espigaPortuguese
- spigia, spia, speiaRomansh
- țăruș, piron, spicRomanian
- нападать, атаковать, костыль, ударить, нагель, удар, штырь, атакa, шип, клин, шиповки, нападающий удар, колос, атакующий удар, шпиль, остриё, скачокRussian
- ipiga, ispiga, ispica, spigaSardinian
- клинSerbo-Croatian
- สไปค์Thai
- mũi nhọnVietnamese
- spigVolapük
- 穗Chinese
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