Dam
noun
A structure built across a river to stop the water flow.
The beavers built a dam to make a pond for themselves.
Often appears as...
- build a dam
- break the dam
verb
To build a dam in a river to stop the water flow.
The government decided to dam the river to generate hydroelectric power.
Often appears as...
- dam a river
- dam off
noun
In reference to a female parent of an animal especially horses and rabbits.
The pedigree of a horse usually lists both the sire and the dam.
Often appears as...
- dam of a horse
- dam rabbit
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A barrier or obstruction in an process or progress.
There are several dams in the process of policy implementation.
Often appears as...
- dam of problems
- dam in progress
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Technical
noun
A structure built across a river to stop the water flow.
The beavers built a dam to make a pond for themselves.
Often appears as...
- build a dam
- break the dam
verb
To build a dam in a river to stop the water flow.
The government decided to dam the river to generate hydroelectric power.
Often appears as...
- dam a river
- dam off
noun
In reference to a female parent of an animal especially horses and rabbits.
The pedigree of a horse usually lists both the sire and the dam.
Often appears as...
- dam of a horse
- dam rabbit
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A barrier or obstruction in an process or progress.
There are several dams in the process of policy implementation.
Often appears as...
- dam of problems
- dam in progress
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Water Management
Dams control water levels, often creating reservoirs for water supply or irrigation.
The valley was flooded by the dam to create a reservoir.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Generation
Dams are critical in hydroelectric systems, using water flow to generate electricity.
The new dam is part of a hydroelectric power station.
Pro Tip 3/3Environmental Impact
While useful, dams can disrupt ecosystems and impact wildlife habitats.
Environmentalists expressed concerns over the dam's impact on fish migration.
Pro Tip 1/3Water Management
Dams control water levels, often creating reservoirs for water supply or irrigation.
The valley was flooded by the dam to create a reservoir.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Generation
Dams are critical in hydroelectric systems, using water flow to generate electricity.
The new dam is part of a hydroelectric power station.
Pro Tip 3/3Environmental Impact
While useful, dams can disrupt ecosystems and impact wildlife habitats.
Environmentalists expressed concerns over the dam's impact on fish migration.
Pro Tip 1/3Water Management
Dams control water levels, often creating reservoirs for water supply or irrigation.
The valley was flooded by the dam to create a reservoir.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Generation
Dams are critical in hydroelectric systems, using water flow to generate electricity.
The new dam is part of a hydroelectric power station.
Pro Tip 3/3Environmental Impact
While useful, dams can disrupt ecosystems and impact wildlife habitats.
Environmentalists expressed concerns over the dam's impact on fish migration.
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Remove the Dams to Save...
environments that flow of material is incredibly important technologically and building dams disrupts that but there's another aspect rivers in terms of flow back upstream that most people don't tend to think about and in the northwest that's greatly mediated by salmon because when salmon leave their native
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Nationalism vs....
which controlled the entire Yellow River and had the ability to bring hundreds of thousands of people together to build dams and canals and regulate the river and prevent the worst floods and droughts and raise the level of prosperity for everybody.
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Blood, concrete, and...
for an arch-gravity dam. This design curves upstream, using the force of oncoming water to push the structure into its supports— in this case, the canyon walls. Arch dams have been built since ancient times, but never on such a massive scale.
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Wild Beavers Return...
thought processes or if it is just going on blind instinct but they really do not know how to engineer a landscape the whole reason they build the dams is to create a certain depth of water if this is a deep river behind us
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The warning sounds of a...
like the breaking of a dam the glaciers upstream will accelerate 2 to 3 4 times their normal speed that ice gets funneled directly into the ocean and raises sea level this is the crane glacier which used to flow into the
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Giant Japanese...
in this rare night footage a giant salamander struggles back upstream after becoming trapped in a dam spillway when the banks of rivers are covered in concrete for flood control the salamanders habitat is destroyed so
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Giant Salamander As Big...
electrons in this rare night footage giant salamander struggles back upstream after becoming trapped in a dam spillway when the banks of rivers are covered in concrete for flood control the
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Elephants Being...
Months of therapy have rebuilt his confidence. Today, he faces a big challenge. We're going down to the big dam and trying to help him get over his fear of water. Come on, let's go see.
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The Cutest Elephant...
developed a deep-rooted fear of water months of therapy have rebuilt his confidence today he faces a big challenge we're going down to the big dam and trying to help him get over his
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Beaver Lodge Construction...
So important is their dam to them, that if they detect the slightest leak, usually by hearing the sound of trickling water,
Video examples
Remove the Dams to Save...
environments that flow of material is incredibly important technologically and building dams disrupts that but there's another aspect rivers in terms of flow back upstream that most people don't tend to think about and in the northwest that's greatly mediated by salmon because when salmon leave their native
Video examples
Nationalism vs....
which controlled the entire Yellow River and had the ability to bring hundreds of thousands of people together to build dams and canals and regulate the river and prevent the worst floods and droughts and raise the level of prosperity for everybody.
Video examples
Blood, concrete, and...
for an arch-gravity dam. This design curves upstream, using the force of oncoming water to push the structure into its supports— in this case, the canyon walls. Arch dams have been built since ancient times, but never on such a massive scale.
Video examples
Wild Beavers Return...
thought processes or if it is just going on blind instinct but they really do not know how to engineer a landscape the whole reason they build the dams is to create a certain depth of water if this is a deep river behind us
Video examples
The warning sounds of a...
like the breaking of a dam the glaciers upstream will accelerate 2 to 3 4 times their normal speed that ice gets funneled directly into the ocean and raises sea level this is the crane glacier which used to flow into the
Video examples
Giant Japanese...
in this rare night footage a giant salamander struggles back upstream after becoming trapped in a dam spillway when the banks of rivers are covered in concrete for flood control the salamanders habitat is destroyed so
Video examples
Giant Salamander As Big...
electrons in this rare night footage giant salamander struggles back upstream after becoming trapped in a dam spillway when the banks of rivers are covered in concrete for flood control the
Video examples
Elephants Being...
Months of therapy have rebuilt his confidence. Today, he faces a big challenge. We're going down to the big dam and trying to help him get over his fear of water. Come on, let's go see.
Video examples
The Cutest Elephant...
developed a deep-rooted fear of water months of therapy have rebuilt his confidence today he faces a big challenge we're going down to the big dam and trying to help him get over his
Video examples
Beaver Lodge Construction...
So important is their dam to them, that if they detect the slightest leak, usually by hearing the sound of trickling water,
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Quote examples
Frances Beinecke
American Activist
When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Leader
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
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Henry Ford
American Businessman
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
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Jerry Costello
American Politician
We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.
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Cathy McMorris Rodgers
American Politician
The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.
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Stephen Ambrose
American Historian
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
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Kay Kay Menon
Indian Actor
I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.
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Arthur Golden
American Writer
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
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Duke of Wellington
British Public Servant
Publish and be dammed.
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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
American Leader
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian Psychologist
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
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Henry Ford
American Businessman
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
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Jerry Costello
American Politician
We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.
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Cathy McMorris Rodgers
American Politician
The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.
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Stephen Ambrose
American Historian
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
Quote examples
Kay Kay Menon
Indian Actor
I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.
Quote examples
Arthur Golden
American Writer
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
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Duke of Wellington
British Public Servant
Publish and be dammed.
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