The difference between Attack and Spike
When used as nouns, attack means an attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy, whereas spike means a sort of very large nail.
When used as verbs, attack means to apply violent force to someone or something, whereas spike means to fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
check bellow for the other definitions of Attack and Spike
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Attack as a noun:
An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
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Attack as a noun:
An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
Examples:
"They claimed the censorship of the article was an attack on free speech."
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Attack as a noun:
A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
Examples:
"The army timed their attack to coincide with the local celebrations."
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Attack as a noun (informal, by extension):
The beginning of active operations on anything.
Examples:
"Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry."
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Attack as a noun (cricket):
Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
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Attack as a noun (volleyball):
Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
Examples:
"synonyms: hit spike"
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Attack as a noun (lacrosse):
The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
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Attack as a noun (medicine):
The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
Examples:
"I've had an attack of the flu."
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Attack as a noun:
An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
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Attack as a noun (music):
The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
Examples:
"ant decay release"
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Attack as a noun (audio):
The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
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Attack as a verb (transitive):
To apply violent force to someone or something.
Examples:
"This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened."
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Attack as a verb (transitive):
To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
Examples:
"She published an article attacking the recent pay cuts."
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Attack as a verb (transitive):
To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
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Attack as a verb (transitive):
To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
Examples:
"We’ll have dinner before we attack the biology homework."
"I attacked the meal with a hearty appetite."
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Attack as a verb (transitive, cricket):
To aim balls at the batsman's wicket.
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Attack as a verb (intransitive, cricket):
To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
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Attack as a verb (intransitive, cricket):
To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
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Attack as a verb (soccer):
To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
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Attack as a verb (cycling):
To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
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Spike as a noun:
A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward/outward.
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Spike as a noun:
Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
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Spike as a noun:
An ear of corn or grain.
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Spike as a noun (botany):
A kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
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Spike as a noun:
(in plural spikes; informal) Running shoes with spikes in the soles.
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Spike as a noun:
A sharp peak in a graph.
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Spike as a noun:
The long, narrow part of a high-heeled shoe that elevates the heel.
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Spike as a noun:
A long nail for storing papers and, by extension, the metaphorical place where rejected newspaper articles are sent.
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Spike as a noun (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.
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Spike as a noun (zoology):
An adolescent male deer.
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Spike as a noun:
A surge in power.
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Spike as a noun:
(slang) The casual ward of a workhouse.
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Spike as a noun:
Spike lavender.
Examples:
"oil of spike"
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Spike as a noun (music, lutherie):
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Spike as a verb:
To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.
Examples:
"to spike down planks"
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Spike as a verb:
To set or furnish with spikes.
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Spike as a verb:
To fix on a spike.
Examples:
"rfquotek Young"
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Spike as a verb:
To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.
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Spike as a verb:
To prevent or frustrate.
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Spike as a verb:
To increase sharply.
Examples:
"Traffic accidents spiked in December when there was ice on the roads."
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Spike as a verb:
To covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance into a drink.
Examples:
"She spiked my lemonade with vodka!"
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Spike as a verb:
To add a small amount of one substance to another.
Examples:
"The water sample to be tested has been spiked with arsenic, antimony, mercury, and lead in quantities commonly found in industrial effluents."
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Spike as a verb (volleyball):
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.
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Spike as a verb (military):
To render (a gun) unusable by driving a metal spike into its touch hole.
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Spike as a verb (journalism):
To decide not to publish or make public.
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Spike as a verb:
(football 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.