Levee
noun
A wall, or embankment, built to prevent overflow of a river or rising water.
After the storm, the city's levee was damaged.
Often appears as...
- break a levee
- build a levee
noun
A formal reception of visitors or guests.
The king held a levee to greet his subjects.
Often appears as...
- hold a levee
- attend a levee
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Formal
Historical
noun
A wall, or embankment, built to prevent overflow of a river or rising water.
After the storm, the city's levee was damaged.
Often appears as...
- break a levee
- build a levee
noun
A formal reception of visitors or guests.
The king held a levee to greet his subjects.
Often appears as...
- hold a levee
- attend a levee
Usage tips
Formal
Historical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Disaster
Levees are crucial during floods and storms, helping to protect land from water damage.
Residents rely on the levee to safeguard their homes during the hurricane season.
Pro Tip 2/3Civil Engineering
Building a levee involves careful engineering to ensure it is strong enough to hold back water.
Engineers are surveying the riverbank to design a new levee.
Pro Tip 3/3Geographical Feature
Levees may form naturally by sediment deposited during floods, aside from being man-made.
The natural levee along the riverside shapes the landscape.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Disaster
Levees are crucial during floods and storms, helping to protect land from water damage.
Residents rely on the levee to safeguard their homes during the hurricane season.
Pro Tip 2/3Civil Engineering
Building a levee involves careful engineering to ensure it is strong enough to hold back water.
Engineers are surveying the riverbank to design a new levee.
Pro Tip 3/3Geographical Feature
Levees may form naturally by sediment deposited during floods, aside from being man-made.
The natural levee along the riverside shapes the landscape.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Disaster
Levees are crucial during floods and storms, helping to protect land from water damage.
Residents rely on the levee to safeguard their homes during the hurricane season.
Pro Tip 2/3Civil Engineering
Building a levee involves careful engineering to ensure it is strong enough to hold back water.
Engineers are surveying the riverbank to design a new levee.
Pro Tip 3/3Geographical Feature
Levees may form naturally by sediment deposited during floods, aside from being man-made.
The natural levee along the riverside shapes the landscape.
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Termite-Inspired Robots...
of course that's again a very long-term vision something that might be shorter term still on the order of years but maybe not decades is to have a system like this build levees out of sandbags to protect against flooding classically the times when you want to use robots instead of people our situation is
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How we could change the...
We would need to build seawalls and levees to protect those people living on the coast, many of whom are too poor to build them today, which is why it must mean an end to a narrowly nationalistic geopolitics that allows us to define the suffering of those living elsewhere in the world as insignificant,
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Creating living...
but we rarely create behaviors that are in tune with the plants and animal species within those environments it is possible though for us to begin building much more responsive landscapes this prototype of a spillway basically splices the levee it takes the sediment-laden waters pouring down the
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What intelligent...
But with these rules, this is really only one kind of robot body that you could imagine. You could imagine many different kinds of robot bodies. So if you think about robots that maybe could move sandbags and could help build levees, or we could think of robots that built out of soft materials
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3 ways to plan for the...
It's a quick buck. Now, the reality is, for a lot of these problems, there are some technical fixes, a lot of them. I call these technical fixes sandbag strategies. So you know there's a storm coming, the levee is broken, no one's put any money into it, you surround your home with sandbags.
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Vicki Arroyo: Let's...
Imagine the staggering cost of protecting this vital infrastructure with levees. But there might be some changes in store that you might not imagine. For example, planes require more runway for takeoff because the heated, less dense air, provides for less lift.
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Floods 101 PIPE National...
communities further downriver were hit with the full brunt of the Mississippi two-thirds of all the levees were breached though towns rallied to protect their lives and livelihoods the damage was still immense over ten billion
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Let's prepare for our...
imagine the staggering cost of protecting this vital infrastructure with levees but there might be some changes in store that you might not imagine for example planes require more runway for takeoff because the heated
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Jumping the Border Fence...
sounds like the levee channel area is pretty busy right now they know once they get past that they can get rid of the mall they can get into like I said into the housing and it's a lot easier for them to get lost
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5 Years After Katrina,...
wreaked havoc on coastal and inland communities alike whole towns were devastated some nearly wiped off the map in New Orleans a levee breach sent water flowing into much of the city leaving
Video examples
Termite-Inspired Robots...
of course that's again a very long-term vision something that might be shorter term still on the order of years but maybe not decades is to have a system like this build levees out of sandbags to protect against flooding classically the times when you want to use robots instead of people our situation is
Video examples
How we could change the...
We would need to build seawalls and levees to protect those people living on the coast, many of whom are too poor to build them today, which is why it must mean an end to a narrowly nationalistic geopolitics that allows us to define the suffering of those living elsewhere in the world as insignificant,
Video examples
Creating living...
but we rarely create behaviors that are in tune with the plants and animal species within those environments it is possible though for us to begin building much more responsive landscapes this prototype of a spillway basically splices the levee it takes the sediment-laden waters pouring down the
Video examples
What intelligent...
But with these rules, this is really only one kind of robot body that you could imagine. You could imagine many different kinds of robot bodies. So if you think about robots that maybe could move sandbags and could help build levees, or we could think of robots that built out of soft materials
Video examples
3 ways to plan for the...
It's a quick buck. Now, the reality is, for a lot of these problems, there are some technical fixes, a lot of them. I call these technical fixes sandbag strategies. So you know there's a storm coming, the levee is broken, no one's put any money into it, you surround your home with sandbags.
Video examples
Vicki Arroyo: Let's...
Imagine the staggering cost of protecting this vital infrastructure with levees. But there might be some changes in store that you might not imagine. For example, planes require more runway for takeoff because the heated, less dense air, provides for less lift.
Video examples
Floods 101 PIPE National...
communities further downriver were hit with the full brunt of the Mississippi two-thirds of all the levees were breached though towns rallied to protect their lives and livelihoods the damage was still immense over ten billion
Video examples
Let's prepare for our...
imagine the staggering cost of protecting this vital infrastructure with levees but there might be some changes in store that you might not imagine for example planes require more runway for takeoff because the heated
Video examples
Jumping the Border Fence...
sounds like the levee channel area is pretty busy right now they know once they get past that they can get rid of the mall they can get into like I said into the housing and it's a lot easier for them to get lost
Video examples
5 Years After Katrina,...
wreaked havoc on coastal and inland communities alike whole towns were devastated some nearly wiped off the map in New Orleans a levee breach sent water flowing into much of the city leaving
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Quote examples
Susan Straight
American Writer
I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against danger with building codes and levees, and by setting aside money to clean up afterwards.
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Billy Tauzin
American Politician
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
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Nina Easton
American Journalist
Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.
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Aaron Neville
American Musician
We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
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Sonny Perdue
American Politician
We have seen levee breaks and flooding in the wake of storms, some of which have caused the loss of life, and USDA is ready to assist in any way we can.
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Bryan Batt
American Actor
I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.
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Douglas Brinkley
American Author
The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
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Rosecrans Baldwin
American Novelist
Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.
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Lloyd Doggett
American Politician
Save the stonewall to build the levees.
Quote examples
Susan Straight
American Writer
I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.
Quote examples
Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Disasters happen. We still have no way to eliminate earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, floods or droughts. We cope as best we can by fortifying ourselves against danger with building codes and levees, and by setting aside money to clean up afterwards.
Quote examples
Billy Tauzin
American Politician
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
Quote examples
Nina Easton
American Journalist
Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.
Quote examples
Aaron Neville
American Musician
We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
Quote examples
Sonny Perdue
American Politician
We have seen levee breaks and flooding in the wake of storms, some of which have caused the loss of life, and USDA is ready to assist in any way we can.
Quote examples
Bryan Batt
American Actor
I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.
Quote examples
Douglas Brinkley
American Author
The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
Quote examples
Rosecrans Baldwin
American Novelist
Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.
Quote examples
Lloyd Doggett
American Politician
Save the stonewall to build the levees.
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