The NYPD is ramping up subway patrols to combat a spike in felonies on the trains, with a surge coming on the weekend because that's when 46% of all subway crimes happen, the MTA said Monday.
In base-ball and foot-racing, to strike or injure (a player) with the spikes in the shoes.Ī disease of the pineapple in which the plants are dwarfed and the leaves become narrow and crowded also a disease which destroys sandalwood timber in India.įormerly a maker of bad, but at least angry, movies, Spike Lee now seems to be trying to be the world's oldest student filmmaker. To plug up the vent of with a spike, as a cannon.
To fasten with spikes or long and large nails: as, to spike down the planks of a floor or a bridge. Hence A sprig of some plant in which the flowers form a spike or somewhat spike-like cluster: as, a spike of lavender. Compare raceme, and see cuts under inflorescence, barley, papyrus, and Equisetaceæ. In the Equisetaceæ a spike is an aggregation of sporophyls at the apex of a shoot. There are two modifications of the spike that have received distinct names, although not distinguishable by exact and constant characters. In botany, a flower-cluster or form of inflorescence in which the flowers are sessile (or apparently so) along an elongated, unbranched common axis, as in the well-known mullen and plantain. Spikes are also made split, barbed, grooved, and of other shapes. The larger forms of spikes, particularly railroad-spikes, are chisel-pointed, and have a head or fang projecting to one side to bite the rail. See cut under chevaux-de-frise.Ī large nail or pin, generally of iron.
A long nail or pointed iron inserted in something with the point outward, as in chevaux defrise, the top of a wall, gate, or the like, as a defense or to hinder passage. (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axisįruiting spike of a cereal plant especially cornĪ sharp point a pike a sharp-pointed projection. "the seismograph showed a sharp spike in response to the temblor" "the second baseman sharpened his spikes before every game","golfers' spikes damage the putting greens"Ī transient variation in voltage or current "the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order"Ī long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal)Ī sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)Įach of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves) "they used spikes to fasten the rails to a railroad tie"Īny holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object Sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes And when I hummed old tunes that soothed my baby sister something in them spiked your grief to howling."my hyacinths and orchids are spiking now".Endless bowls of hot tortilla chips are accompanied by a fresh salsa spiked with just the right amount of cilantro.James Harper, defending, said Colling believed his drinks had been spiked with a narcotic substance which caused his violent behaviour.In 1987, Mr Salvigsen again hit a home run when he forecast that interest rates would spike up.She was looking particularly uncompromising today, tired and pale, her dark, short hair spiking up at the back.Anti-logging activists often spike trees to prevent them from being cut down.The gas tax rollback, initiated because gasoline prices spiked this spring, has since fallen by the wayside.
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