Word Finder - dam

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A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.

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A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country.

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The water reservoir resulting from placing such structure.

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Boats may only be used at places set aside for boating on the dam.

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A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.

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A reservoir.

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A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

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To block the flow of water.

The rest was blocked, as if a dam was placed there.

Dolokhov who was in the midst of the crowd forced his way to the edge of the dam, throwing two soldiers off their feet, and ran onto the slippery ice that covered the millpool.

The dam differs in shape according to the nature of particular localities.

She clamped a hand over her mouth to dam the frustration.

Soon after this the courageous explorer Arnaud discovered the ancient Mariab, the royal city of the Sabaeans, and at great risk copied fifty-six inscriptions and took a plan of the walls, the dam, and the temple to the east of the city.

The length of the dam is about 6400 ft.

It provides for a dam across Owl Creek 6500 ft.

On the following day the dam which closed the canal of Cairo was cut with much ceremony.

This seemed all the more evident, as at that time financial reasons made the construction of a costly Nile dam out of the question.

The site selected for the great Nile dam was at the head of the First Cataract above Assuan.

On the left flank of the dam there is a canal, provided with four locks, each 262 by 31 ft.

Protective works downstream of the dam were completed in 1906 at a cost of about £E304,000.

It had been at first intended to raise the dam to a height which would have involved the submergence, for some months of every year, of the Philae temples, situated on an island just upstream of the dam.

In 1907, however, it was decided to carry out the plan as originally proposed and raise the dam 26 ft.

Its upper waters are now stemmed by a masonry dam 178 ft.

Large quantities of this syenite were used in building the Assuan dam (1898-1902).

A pillar of earth before the dam is called the Bride of the Nile, and Arab historians relate that this was substituted, at the Moslem conquest, for a virgin whom it was the custom annually to sacrifice, to ensure a plentiful inundation.

The governor of Cairo attended the ceremony, with the cadi and, others, and gave the signal for the cutting of the dam.

Of these the most notable was the construction (1898-1902) of the Assuan dam, which by bringing more land under cultivation permanently increased the resources of the country and widened the area of taxation.

On the 17th of August 1805 the dam of the canal of Cairo was to be cut, and some chiefs of Mehemet Alis party wrote, informing them that he would go forth early on that morning with most of his troops to witness the ceremony, inviting them to enter and seize the city, and, to deceive them, stipulating for a certain sum of money as a reward.

The dam, however, was cut early in the preceding night, without any ceremony.

The Union gunboats, which had passed up the river toward Shreveport at high water, were caught in its decline above the falls at Alexandria, but they were saved by a splendid piece of engineering (a dam at the falls), constructed by Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Bailey (1827-1867), who for this service received the thanks of Congress and the brevet of brigadier-general of volunteers.

The completion of the Assuan dam by ensuring a fuller supply of water enabled 20,000 acres of land, previously unirrigated and untaxed, to be brought under cultivation in the three years 1903-1905.

This canal provides, with the Illinois & Michigan canal and the Illinois river, an improved waterway from Chicago to the Mississippi river, and greatly increases the commercial and industrial importance of the "twin cities" of Sterling and Rock Falls, where the Rock river is dammed by a dam nearly 1500 ft.

By means of a dam across the Ternay, an affluent of the D€ome, to the north-west of the town, a reservoir is provided, in which an additional supply of water, for both industrial and domestic purposes, is stored.

A few years later a Calvinistic university was formed through his instrumentality at Amster dam, and he himself became professor of theology.

On the 31st of May 1889, during a heavy rainfall, the dam gave way and a mass of water 20 ft.

A broad strip of park lands lies between them, through which runs the river Torrens, crossed by five bridges and greatly improved by a dam on the west of the city.

This provides for a storage reservoir, controlled by Shoshone dam on Shoshone river, about 8 m.

Near Douglas, in Converse county, there is a reinforced concrete dam, impounding the waters of Laprele Creek, to furnish water for over 30,000 acres, and power for transmitting electricity.

The Carlsbad reservoir and diverting dam in Eddy county and the Rio Hondo canals and reservoir in Chaves county were completed in 1907 and are capable of supplying water to tracts of 20,000 and 10,000 acres respectively.

A dam erected a few miles below that lake, with a storage of nearly io,000 million cub.

The most ancient irrigation work is a massive dam of unhewn stone, 1080 long, and from 40 to 60 ft.

It has also been encircled with a strong dam in order to protect it from floods.

The river is rendered navigable by a large dam and crossed by a fine bridge which leads to the suburb of La Madeleine.

The town has suffered much from the periodical breaking of the Hindieh dam and the consequent deflection of the waters of the Euphrates to the westward, as a result of which at times the Euphrates at this point has been entirely dry.

Another important undertaking begun about the same time was the throwing of an East Indian weir dam (the only one in the United States) across the Colorado near Yuma, and the confinement of both sides of the lower Gila and Colorado with levees.

The dam locks a narrow canyon.

More recent research, however, seems to have established the derivation from Wehr, dam.

Two miles up the river is the Hen Island dam, which, with the Mishawaka hydraulic dam nearer the city, is the source of much of the power used by the city's manufactories.

Its harbour has a total length on the three rivers of 27.2 m., and an average width of about woo ft., and has been deepened by the construction (in 1877-1885) of the Davis Island dam, by dredging, under a federal project of 18 9 9.

The site of the city being originally a peat bog, the foundations of the houses have to be secured by driving long piles (4-20 yds.) into the firm clay below, the palace on the Dam being supported on nearly 14,000 piles.

The Dam is the vital centre of Amsterdam.

In the middle of the Dam stands a monument to those who fell in the Belgian revolution of 1830-1831, and called the Metal Cross after the war medals struck at that time.

The new exchange (1901) is a striking building in red brick and stone, and lies a short distance away between the Dam and the fine central station (1889).

In 1240 Giesebrecht III., son of the builder of the castle, constructed a dam to keep out the sea.

Until recent years the supposed inheritance of characters acquired by a dam from one or more of her former mates was usually designated by breeders "throwing back"; by physiologists, "infection of the germ," or simply "infection."

Whatever may have been the views of stockowners in the remote past, it is certain that during the middle ages the belief in "infection" was common amongst breeders, and that during the last two centuries it met with the general approval of naturalists, English breeders being especially satisfied of the fact that the offspring frequently inherited some of their characters from a former mate of the dam, while both English and Continental naturalists (apparently without putting the assertions of breeders to the test of experiment) accounted for the "throwing back" by saying the germ cells of the dam had been directly or indirectly "infected" by a former mate.

The result was five pups, which have grown into handsome hounds without the remotest suggestion of the previous Dalmatian mate of their dam.

All the pure-bred pups were typical terriers, and evidence of their dam having escaped infection is the fact that three of them proved noted prize-winners.