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spike noun

  /spaɪk/
  • An ear of corn or grain.
  • (volleyball) 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.
スパイク
  • (informal, mostly, in the plural) A running shoe with spikes in the sole to provide grip.
スパイク靴
  • (zoology) An adolescent male deer.
牡鹿
  • (botany) A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
穂状花序
  • A sort of very large nail.
  • (by extension) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
  • 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.
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