LEVEE vs DAM: NOUN
- A formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)
- An embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing
- A pier that provides a landing place on a river
- A pier or other landing place on a river.
- The steep bank of a river, or border of an irrigated field.
- A reception of visitors held after getting up.
- The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
- An embankment to prevent inundation; ; sometimes, the steep bank of a river.
- A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in distinction from a soirée, or evening assembly; a matinée; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening.
- The act of rising.
- A general or miscellaneous assemblage of guests, without reference to the time of day; a reception: as, the president's levee.
- A morning reception held by a prince or great personage; a morning assembly.
- The act or time of rising.
- In irrigation, one of the small continuous ridges of earth surrounding the fields, or compartments, of land that is to be irrigated.
- Hence A landing-place for vessels; a quay, pier, or landing-stage.
- A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
- An embankment on the margin of a river, to confine it within its natural channel: as, the levees of the Mississippi.
- A mother.
- A female parent of an animal, especially a domesticated mammal such as a horse.
- A metric unit of length equal to ten meters
- A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- Female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock
- A reservoir.
- A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
- Structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow.
- Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals (correlative to sire).
- Symbol for the decameter (decametre), an SI unit of length equal to 101 meters (metres).
- An iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it.
- A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
- A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
- A king or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
- A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
- A female parent: used of beasts, particularly of quadrupeds, and sometimes (now usually in a slighting sense) of women.
- The body of water confined by a dam.
- In dentistry, a guard of soft rubber placed round a tooth to keep it free from saliva while being prepared for filling.
- In mining, any underground wall or stopping, constructed of masonry, clay, or timber, for the purpose of holding back water, air, or gas.
- A mole, bank, or mound of earth, or a wall, or a frame of wood, constructed across a stream of water to obstruct its flow and thus raise its level, in order to make it available as a motive power, as for driving a mill-wheel; such an obstruction built for any purpose, as to form a reservoir, to protect a tract of land from overflow, etc.; in law, an artificial boundary or means of confinement of running water, or of water which would otherwise flow away.
- A fire-brick wall forming the front of the hearth or crucible of a blast-furnace, through which the tap-hole is formed.
- A crowned man in the game of draughts or checkers.
- A body of water controlled by such a barrier.
- A barrier against the passage of liquid or loose material, as a rubber sheet used in dentistry to isolate one or more teeth from the rest of the mouth.
- A barrier constructed across a waterway to control the flow or raise the level of water.
LEVEE vs DAM: VERB
- N/A
- Obstruct with, or as if with, a dam
- To block the flow of water.
LEVEE vs DAM: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To keep within a channel by means of levees.
- To attend the levee or levees of.
- To hold back or confine by means of a dam.
- To keep out by means of a dam.
- To close up; obstruct.
- To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
LEVEE vs DAM: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To embank: as, to levee a river.
- To attend the levee of; fasten one's self on, or pester, at levees.
- To obstruct or restrain the flow of by a dam; confine or raise the level of by constructing a dam, as a stream of water: often with in, up.
- To confine or restrain as if with a dam; stop or shut up or in; obstruct: with up.
- (abbreviation) decameter
LEVEE vs DAM: RELATED WORDS
- Bridging, Removing, Living, Raise, Filling, Sunrise, Levy, Quay, Causeway, Embankment, Breakwater, Bridge, Dyke, Dam, Dike
- Breakwater, Bridge, Reservoirs, River, Reservoir, Weir, Dekametre, Decameter, Dekameter, Decametre, Dam up, Dkm, Dyke, Levee, Dike
LEVEE vs DAM: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Bridging, Removing, Living, Raise, Filling, Sunrise, Levy, Quay, Causeway, Embankment, Breakwater, Bridge, Dyke, Dam, Dike
- Pond, Embankment, Impoundment, Breakwater, Bridge, Reservoirs, River, Reservoir, Weir, Decametre, Decameter, Dam up, Dyke, Levee, Dike
LEVEE vs DAM: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- In the event of a levee failure, floodwaters may ultimately inundate the protected area landward of the levee.
- Due to construction work, the north levee and northern half of the west levee will be closed to all public access until further notice.
- Accordingly, this requires separating the organics from the excavated levee material if it will be used in the new setback levee.
- Levee Working Standard Levee systems must be hydraulically independent whereby if one system fails, the area behind another system is not inundated.
- One of the biggest hurdles in seeking levee improvements and levee certification is finding the capital to fund such endeavors.
- Cajun Paradis Levee System in order to provide surge protection to residents and prevent levee failure.
- Take time to research levee system, please tell me what aspects of the levee system.
- Eastside Bypass levee sections to current USACE standards and reducing potential flood risks in thelocal vicinity of the levee improvements.
- Levee certification is a required, albeit costly process for local jurisdictions seeking FEMA levee accreditation.
- Levee screening is completed on a per levee segment basis and combines inspection data, preliminary engineering assessment, and local knowledge of levee performance.
- In dam rehabilitation projects, development of the FWOP is complicated bythe fact that a dam already exists.
- WAUK CREEK and TRIBUTARIESfrom Roza Dam to Keechelus Dam except as otherwise ALL SPECIESALL GAME FISHSat.
- Center Hill Dam is undergoing the same remediation project that Wolf Creek Dam required.
- Then stop at Glen Canyon Dam for a view of the lake and dam.
- As a control for nonspecific Dam activity, animals expressing Dam alone were generated.
- CJ Strike Dam and Anderson Ranch Dam provide boating, swimming, fishing, etc.
- Bhakhra Dam, Tihri Dam, SYL Canal, thermal powerhouse etc.
- He also designed the decoration and color schemes for the Boulder Dam power plant, Grand Coulee Dam, Shasta Dam, and others.
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- Lavasa, Lohagad, Sinhagad, Hadshi, Saniwardwara, Mulshi Dam, Panshet Dam and Khadakwasla Dam.
LEVEE vs DAM: QUESTIONS
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- Is water supply from Khanpur Dam and Rawal Dam affected?
- Why are Michigan officials prioritizing dam removal over dam repairs?