dam 
dam (dam)
noun
- a barrier built to hold back flowing water
- the water thus kept back
- any barrier like a dam, as a rubber sheet used in dentistry to keep a tooth dry
Etymology: ME < Gmc base seen in MLowG, MDu dam, ON dammr, MHG tam, Goth faur-dammjan, to stop up < IE base *dhē, to set, put in place > do, L facere
transitive verb dammed, dam′·ming
- to build a dam in
- to keep back or confine by or as by a dam: usually with up
dam (dam)
dam
n.
Structure to impound water
dike, ditch, wall, bank, embankment, barrier, gate, weir, grade, levee, irrigation dam, diversion dam, cofferdam; see also barrier.Famous dams include --- United States: Gatun, Fort Peck, Kingsley, Glen Canyon, Grand Coulee, Bonneville, Shasta, Boulder, Hoover, Wilson, Bartlett, Bagnell, Conowingo, Tygart River; Russia: Dnepropetrovsk; France: Sautet, Chambon, Sarrans; Egypt: Aswan; India: Metur; South Africa: Vaalbank.
Mother, usually of a four-legged animal
dam
v.
Converse of object
- don: The rnam grangs min pa'i don dam is precisely unutterable and thus cannot be refuted by ultimate analysis.
- construct: A further threat comes from a proposal to construct a large dam.
- build: A small army of laborers with horse-drawn carts built a dam, which extended 175 feet into the solid rock.
Converse of subject
- displace: Another concern is the relocation of the people to be displaced by the dam.
Adjective modifier
- hydroelectric: The barrage traps high water creating a head of water, like a hydroelectric dam.
- hydro-electric: Hydro-electric dams are built which have turbines in them.
- earthen: On 4th August, 1964, FBI agents found the bodies in an earthen dam at Old Jolly Farm.
- submerged: The top of the submerged dam of Garreg-ddu can be seen under the bridge on the right in the picture above.
- affected: MAFF advice is that you do not retain for breeding the most recent offspring of a BSE affected dam.
- dental: Kept dental dams in the glove box, grew the hair under your arms to a mousey fuzz.
Modifies a noun
- genotype: Initial research will evaluate the effect of dam genotype on efficiency of production, focussing on the development of an easy care production system.
- burst: In Austria, a river dam burst Monday, forcing the partial evacuation of a village northeast of Vienna.
- pedigree: The next leading price tag was 5,000gns for Lumbylaw Naïve a Lumbylaw Honkytonk daughter going back to Fieldhouse Earthman on her dams pedigree.
Noun used with modifier
- tailings: Further approvals will still be required, principally concerning the environmental impact, the tailings dam and detailed design.
- coffer: The work included a massive new concrete foundation, hence the necessity to build the coffer dam.
- gezhouba: Degree propulsion unit to to and banks while swimmers gezhouba dam.
- Ruhr: Its Mosquitoes were intended to be the carriers of a variation of the Wallis bomb used by No.617 Squadron on the Ruhr dams.
- beaver: Hint: Secret level: In God Machine Valley, in the beaver dam level go to where the big drill is located.
- embankment: Embankment dams Embankment dams are very low in height compared to their length.
Preposition: in
- betweenmoving: And the crew dams in betweenmoving and an arts.
You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it upput it to useful purposesdeflect it, but you can't argue with it.
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