dam has definitions from the field of zoology
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[ noun ] a barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea

Synonyms

dyke levee dike

Used in print

(Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)

Examples are in public utilities , making military aircraft and accessories , or where the investment and risk for a proprietorship would be too great for a much needed project impossible to achieve by_any_means other_than the corporate form , e._g. constructing major airports or dams .

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[ verb ] obstruct with, or as if with, a dam

Synonyms

dam_up

Examples

"dam the gorges of the Yangtse River"

Used in print

(Joseph E. Choate, "The American Boating Scene"...)

No_matter_how determined or wealthy boating lovers of the Southwest had been , for_example , they could never have created anything approaching the fifty square-mile Lake_Texoma , located between Texas and Oklahoma , which resulted when the Corp of Army_Engineers dammed the Red_River .

Related terms

obstruct

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 12862
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[ noun ] a metric unit of length equal to ten meters
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[ noun ] (zoology) female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock

Related terms

female

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