Embankment
noun
A wall or barrier built to hold back water or soil.
They built an embankment to prevent the river from flooding the town.
Often appears as...
- river embankment
- railway embankment
noun
A raised area or surface created by putting soil or stones in a place.
The train travels on an embankment which gives passengers a panoramic view of the countryside.
Often appears as...
- build an embankment
- high embankment
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Technical
noun
A slope of earth, especially one by the side of a road or railway.
The car skidded off the road and rolled down the embankment.
Often appears as...
- grass embankment
- side embankment
noun
A wall or barrier built to hold back water or soil.
They built an embankment to prevent the river from flooding the town.
Often appears as...
- river embankment
- railway embankment
noun
A raised area or surface created by putting soil or stones in a place.
The train travels on an embankment which gives passengers a panoramic view of the countryside.
Often appears as...
- build an embankment
- high embankment
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A slope of earth, especially one by the side of a road or railway.
The car skidded off the road and rolled down the embankment.
Often appears as...
- grass embankment
- side embankment
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Preventive Measure
Denote embankments as preventive constructions in discussions about controlling natural elements.
The town's embankment system has been fortified to counter potential floods.
Pro Tip 2/3Engineering Context
Emphasize embankments in conversations about civil engineering and landscape planning.
The engineers considered several embankment designs for maintaining the riverbanks.
Pro Tip 3/3Geographical Feature
Remember that embankments can also be natural features shaped by environmental processes.
Over time, the river formed a natural embankment along its bends.
Pro Tip 1/3Preventive Measure
Denote embankments as preventive constructions in discussions about controlling natural elements.
The town's embankment system has been fortified to counter potential floods.
Pro Tip 2/3Engineering Context
Emphasize embankments in conversations about civil engineering and landscape planning.
The engineers considered several embankment designs for maintaining the riverbanks.
Pro Tip 3/3Geographical Feature
Remember that embankments can also be natural features shaped by environmental processes.
Over time, the river formed a natural embankment along its bends.
Pro Tip 1/3Preventive Measure
Denote embankments as preventive constructions in discussions about controlling natural elements.
The town's embankment system has been fortified to counter potential floods.
Pro Tip 2/3Engineering Context
Emphasize embankments in conversations about civil engineering and landscape planning.
The engineers considered several embankment designs for maintaining the riverbanks.
Pro Tip 3/3Geographical Feature
Remember that embankments can also be natural features shaped by environmental processes.
Over time, the river formed a natural embankment along its bends.
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My photographs bear...
I began to explore conditions of poverty in a country that was on its way towards modernization. I spent a good deal of time with a man who lived with his family on a railway embankment and had lost an arm and a leg in a train accident.
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How the world's first...
with lines in the center of town running in tunnels, and suburban trains operating on the surface, often on embankments. But London was still growing, and everyone wanted to be connected to the system. By the late 1880s,
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Where will you be able...
and the government has repeatedly delayed projects to build concrete embankments that would prevent further erosion. In other parts of the world, people couldn’t move inland even if they wanted to.
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John Hockenberry: We are...
on a poorly designed road in Pennsylvania, and plummeted down a 200-foot embankment and killed two people in the car. But ever since then, the wheelchair has been a given in my life.
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Patrick Awuah: Educating...
And they asked me to join a crowd of people that were running up and down this embankment. Why? Because the path I had taken was considered out of bounds. No sign to this effect.
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Bill T. Jones PIPE The...
and white body went tumbling over the embankment I am fed to her third in the family law that polecat don't paid off he went spinning into infinity he went
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Building a New Home PIPE...
excavate build embankments and dig tunnels always trying to keep themselves hidden from you they clear the highway of large pieces of soil that might slow
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Mudslide Mayhem PIPE...
your seat belt B steer your car into an embankment to keep it anchored in place for C abandon your car and run for high ground
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Stunning Footage of Ants...
excavate build embankments and dig tunnels always trying to keep themselves hidden from you
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Safari Live - Day 300 PIPE...
Gudivada says oh she's claiming up an embankment now and disappeared
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My photographs bear...
I began to explore conditions of poverty in a country that was on its way towards modernization. I spent a good deal of time with a man who lived with his family on a railway embankment and had lost an arm and a leg in a train accident.
Video examples
How the world's first...
with lines in the center of town running in tunnels, and suburban trains operating on the surface, often on embankments. But London was still growing, and everyone wanted to be connected to the system. By the late 1880s,
Video examples
Where will you be able...
and the government has repeatedly delayed projects to build concrete embankments that would prevent further erosion. In other parts of the world, people couldn’t move inland even if they wanted to.
Video examples
John Hockenberry: We are...
on a poorly designed road in Pennsylvania, and plummeted down a 200-foot embankment and killed two people in the car. But ever since then, the wheelchair has been a given in my life.
Video examples
Patrick Awuah: Educating...
And they asked me to join a crowd of people that were running up and down this embankment. Why? Because the path I had taken was considered out of bounds. No sign to this effect.
Video examples
Bill T. Jones PIPE The...
and white body went tumbling over the embankment I am fed to her third in the family law that polecat don't paid off he went spinning into infinity he went
Video examples
Building a New Home PIPE...
excavate build embankments and dig tunnels always trying to keep themselves hidden from you they clear the highway of large pieces of soil that might slow
Video examples
Mudslide Mayhem PIPE...
your seat belt B steer your car into an embankment to keep it anchored in place for C abandon your car and run for high ground
Video examples
Stunning Footage of Ants...
excavate build embankments and dig tunnels always trying to keep themselves hidden from you
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Safari Live - Day 300 PIPE...
Gudivada says oh she's claiming up an embankment now and disappeared
Example 1 of 10
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Cesare Beccaria
Italian Judge
Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.
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H. G. Wells
English Author
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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Lance Loud
American Actor
As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
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Luke Goss
English Actor
I'm a Londoner. Embankment. Big Ben. Cab drivers.
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Cesare Beccaria
Italian Judge
Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.
Quote examples
H. G. Wells
English Author
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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Lance Loud
American Actor
As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
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Luke Goss
English Actor
I'm a Londoner. Embankment. Big Ben. Cab drivers.
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