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Meaning dam meaning

What does dam mean?
Definitions in simple English

dam Noun

— A dam is like a wall used to hold back water. Usually, this is to block a river. — A dam is a barrier like that used to hold back water, such as a dental dam.

dam Verb

— If you dam a river you block it with a dam.

dam

— noun a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea — verb obstruct with, or as if with, a dam dam the gorges of the Yangtse River — noun female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock — noun (= decameter) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters

Synonyms dam synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as dam?

dam English » English

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Topics dam topics

What do people use dam to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with water

Controlling water
Physical actions Move something Open

Block, dam up
Work and occupation Hunt and fish Fishing

Fishing equipment
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with water
Work and occupation Occupation Working with water

Conveying water

Conjugation dam conjugation

How do you conjugate dam?

dam · verb

Examples dam examples

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Simple sentences

The dam burst and water flooded the valley.
This dam supplies us with water and electricity.
The dam burst owing to the heavy rain.
The construction of the dam created an artificial lake that destroyed a whole ecosystem.
The dam blocking the river is very wide.
Thousands of people could be killed if the dam fails.
Is there much water in the dam?
There used to be a village here before the dam was made.
An oil leak was contained by a beaver dam in Alberta.
The river rose above the level of the dam.
It took seventeen years to build this huge dam.
A beaver needs to fell hundreds of trees to dam a river.
This is a beaver dam.

Movie subtitles

Subscribers to Country Dam The undersigned Citizens of Hickoryville have paid their share for the new dam.
Hickoryville May 6 State Treasurer: The Hickoryville citizens have collected their share for the dam and it is now in my keeping.
Subscribers to country Dam The undersigned citizens of Hickoryville have paid their share for the new dam.
We dam the North Sea.
They may have to build a dam in the back of him.
Who was his dam?
I said, who was his dam?
With this Willet Creek dam coming up, the man who goes to the Senate can't ask any questions or talk out of tone.
Suppose we don't go through with this dam?
If what you say about the future is possible, why not drop this dam?
Including Willet Creek dam?
Including Willet Creek dam.
Well, that's a blueprint of Boulder dam!
After all, that's water over the dam.
When he finds out our dam is at his boys camp he'll start asking questions.
He'll hear that section on the Willet dam.
A dam where you think your camp's going to be.
You don't know a dam from a bathtub.
He didn't say anything about a dam.
Should I just stand around and let that drooling infant wrap that Willet Creek dam appropriation around my neck?
Well, I always wanted to go to Boulder Dam.
Yeah, well, if you think I'm going to look at Boulder Dam.
A little river should have a big dam.
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?
Well, compared to your day, I'm afraid Boulder Dam's gonna make pretty dull copy.
You know David has to do that series on the dam.
Well, it's quite a place, that dam.
I'll write up all my notes tonight, and then clean up the rest of the details at the dam in the morning.
It wad like a dam burdting.
If it isn't a tunnel in Colorado it'll be a bridge in Alaska or a dam across the Pacific.
I bet you've made another dam!

News and current affairs

Dam construction is a leading historical example.
In Canada, the world's first full-scale CCS project, Boundary Dam, came onstream in October 2014, proving that the technology is viable and ready to be deployed.
When Daimler-Chrysler increased work hours from 35 to 40 hours in its research and development center, the dam broke and other bargaining agreements fell into line.
Like a hole in a dam, once pent-up pressure began to escape, it widened the opening and tore apart the system.
Transnational water resources have become an especially active source of competition and conflict, triggering a dam-building race and prompting growing calls for the United Nations to recognize water as a key security concern.
Political and economic water wars are already being waged in several regions, reflected in dam construction on international rivers and coercive diplomacy or other means to prevent such works.
Consider, for example, the silent water war triggered by Ethiopia's dam building on the Blue Nile, which has elicited Egyptian threats of covert or overt military reprisals.
When China built the Three Gorges dam, it created a 660-kilometer long reservoir that necessitated displacing two million people - all accomplished in 15 years without a fuss in the interest of generating electricity.
Dam construction in China has never been open to public debate.
Dam protests can often be volatile.
While spearheaded by Beijing-based NGO's, the dam protests involve Chinese from all parts of the country, employ all means of communication, and engage the support of central government officials.
In one case, environmental activists took villagers from a proposed dam site to another town to see firsthand how poorly others had fared in the dam resettlement process.
The dam projects have also become a focal point for a broader political debate within the Chinese media.
While this is currently an unlikely outcome, as the anti-dam protests gather strength, China's leaders may realize that if they do not move quickly, they risk being swept away.
Myanmar's decision to shelve the Chinese-backed Myitsone Dam project shocked China.
Obviously, Myanmar's new government does not want to aggravate sentiment in its already-unstable border areas, where rebel groups were using the dam project to rally new supporters.
The dam's Chinese investors, for their part, relied too heavily on the depth of the two countries' bilateral ties, and so heavily discounted the project's political risks.
The dam will have its uses.
After slowing its dam-building program in response to the serious environmental consequences of completion in 2006 of the Three Gorges Dam - the world's largest - China is now rushing to build a new generation of giant dams.
At a time when dam building has largely petered out in the West - and run into growing grassroots opposition in other democracies like Japan and India - China will remain the nucleus of the world's mega-dam projects.
Among the slew of newly approved dam projects are five on the Salween, three on the Brahmaputra, and two on the Mekong.
The current dam-building plans threaten the Salween River's Grand Canyon - a UNESCO World Heritage site - and the pristine, environmentally sensitive areas through which the Brahmaputra and the Mekong flow.
The Salween, which runs from Tibet through Yunnan Province into Burma and Thailand, will cease to be Asia's last largely free-flowing river, with work on the first project - the giant, 4,200-megawatt Songta Dam in Tibet - to begin shortly.
Indeed, Chinese scientists blamed the massive 2008 earthquake that struck the Tibetan plateau's eastern rim, killing 87,000 people, on the newly constructed Zipingpu Dam, located next to a seismic fault.
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