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
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 . Related terms barrier weir milldam water_gate Aswan_High_Dam Hoover_Dam dike |
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[ verb ] obstruct with, or as if with, a dam
Synonyms 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 |
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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
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