| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Dam.[Websters]
2. To have barraged, barricaded or blockaded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be diked, dyked or causewayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have locked or sluiced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be jettied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have mothered or parented. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To be pooled or puddled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be limited. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have obstructed, checked or debarred. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be bottled.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb dam.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dam) | 1. Obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River".[Wordnet]. 2. To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.[Websters]. 3. To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: damming, dammed, dams, dammer, dammers, dammingly and dammedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DAMMED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Specialty Definition: dam
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A female parent; used of beasts, particularly of quadrupeds.. | 2: [Noun] A human mother, in contempt.. | 3: [Noun] A crowned man in the game of draughts.. | 4: [Noun] A mole, bank or mound of earth, or any wall, or a frame of wood, raised to obstruct a current of water, and to raise it, for the purpose of driving millwheels, or for other purposes. Any work that stops and confines water in a pond or bason, or causes it to rise.. | 5: [Verb] To make a dam, or to stop a stream of water by a bank of earth, or by any other work; to confine or shut in water. It is common to use, after the verb, in, up, or out; as, to dam in, or to dam up, the water, and to dam out is to prevent water from entering.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Administration | A structure of earth, rock, or concrete designed to form a basin and hold water back to make a pond, lake, or reservoir. A barrier built, usually across a watercourse, for impounding or diverting the flow of water. General types of dams include: [1] Arch Dam: Curved masonry or concrete dam, convex in shape upstream, that depends on arch action for its stability; the load or water pressure is transferred by the arch to the Abutments; [2] Buttress Dam: A dam consisting of a watertight upstream face supported at intervals on the downstream side by a series of buttresses; [3] Cofferdam: A temporary watertight enclosure that is pumped dry to expose the bottom of a body of water so that construction, as of piers, a dam, and bridge footings, may be undertaken. A "diversion cofferdam" prevents all downstream flow by diverting the flow of a river into a pipe, channel, or tunnel; [4] Crib Dam: A barrier or form of Gravity Dam constructed of timber forming bays, boxes, cribs, crossed timbers, gabions or cells that are filled with earth, stone or heavy material; [5] Embankment Dam: A dam structure constructed of fill material, usually earth or rock, placed with sloping sides and usually with a length greater than its height. Types of embankment dams include: Earthfill or Earth Dam - A dam in which more than 50 percent of the total volume is formed of compacted fine-grained material obtained from a borrow area (i.e., excavation pit); Fill Dam - Any dam constructed of excavated natural materials or of industrial waste materials; Homogeneous Earthfill Dam - A dam constructed of similar earth material throughout, except for the possible inclusion of internal drains or drainage blankets; distinguished from a Zoned Earthfill Dam; Hydraulic Fill Dam - A dam constructed of materials, often dredged, that are conveyed and placed by suspension in flowing water; Rockfill Dam - A dam in which more than 50 percent of the total volume is comprised of compacted or dumped pervious natural or crushed rock; Rolled Fill Dam - A dam of earth or rock in which the material is placed in layers and compacted by using rollers or rolling equipment; and Zoned Embankment Dam - A dam which is composed of zones of selected materials having different degrees of porosity, permeability, and density; [6] Gravity Dam: A dam constructed of concrete and/or masonry that relies on its weight for stability; [7] Inflatable Dam: A dam constructed of heavy-duty rubber or similar material and inflated with air or water and used for small-scale impoundment of flood flows or as flashboards for regulating the overflow of larger dams..; [8] Masonry Dam: A dam constructed mainly of stone, brick, or concrete blocks that may or may not be joined with mortar. A dam having only a masonry facing should not be referred to as a masonry dam; and [9] Weir: A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fishpond, or the like. When uncontrolled, the weir is termed a fixed-crest weir. Other types of weirs include broad-crested, sharp-crested, drowned, and submerged. (references) | ||
| Aerospace | 1: Double Aluminized Mylar. (references) | 2: Driver Amplifier Module. (references) | 3: Flat plate inserted perpendicularly into a fluid manifold in order to partially or fully separate two streams approaching from opposite directions. (references) |
| Agriculture | Deputy Administrator for Management. (references) | ||
| Building & Civil Engineering | A barrier constructed across a stream channel to impound water and/or trap sediment for the purpose of flow regulation, erosion control, production of energy, etc. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Electrical Engineering | A structure to retain water inflows for subsequent use. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Energy | 1: A barrier built across a watercourse to impound or divert water. A barrier that obstructs, directs, retards, or stores the flow of water. Usually built across a stream. A structure built to hold back a flow of water. See afterbay dam, ambursen dam, arch dam, buttress dam, check dam, coffer dam, concrete dam, crib dam, detention dam, diversion dam, double curvature arch dam, earth dam, embankment dam, gabion dam, gravity arch dam, gravity dam, hollow gravity dam, hydraulic fill dam, industrial waste dam, masonry dam, mine tailings dam, multiple arch dam, multipurpose dam, overflow dam, precast dam, prestressed dam, regulating dam, rock fill dam, roller compacted concrete dam, rubble dam, or saddle dam. (references) | 2: A physical barrier constructed across a river or waterway to control the flow of or raise the level of water. The purpose of construction may be for flood control, irrigation needs, hydroelectric power production, and/or recreation usage. (references) | 3: A structure for impeding and controlling the flow of water in a water course, and which increases the water elevation to create the hydraulic head. The reservoir creates, in effect, stored energy. (references) |
| Forestry | A barrier which obstructs the water flow beyond it and increases the water surface elevation upstream (caused naturally through flooding or a falling tree, or made by beavers or people). (references) | ||
| Geography | 1: A barrier, generally a wall, built across a gorge to intercept detritus but allow the water through. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: Dam is geographically located in Afghanistan. Its features include an abandoned populated place, a locality (a minor area or place of unspecified or mixed character and indefinite boundaries), and a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 30.353056 degrees North latitude and 61.858611 degrees East longitude. (references) | 3: Dam is geographically located in Benin. Its features include a stream (a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land). Its geographic coordinates are 9.85 degrees North latitude and 2.433333 degrees East longitude. (references) | 4: Dam is geographically located in Bhutan. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 27.116667 degrees North latitude and 89.766667 degrees East longitude. (references) | 5: Dam is geographically located in Cambodia. Its features include a stream (a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land). Its geographic coordinates are 13.016667 degrees North latitude and 107.5 degrees East longitude. (references) | 6: Dam is geographically located in Central African Republic. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work), and a stream (a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land). Its geographic coordinates are 5.833333 degrees North latitude and 15.816667 degrees East longitude. (references) | 7: Dam is geographically located in Chad. Its features include a lake (a large inland body of standing water), a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work), and a stream (a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land). Its geographic coordinates are 7.766667 degrees North latitude and 17.016667 degrees East longitude. (references) | 8: Dam is geographically located in Ethiopia. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 9.783333 degrees North latitude and 36.25 degrees East longitude. (references) | 9: Dam is geographically located in Germany. Its features include a populated locality (an area similar to a locality but with a small group of dwellings or other buildings), and a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 51.216667 degrees North latitude and 6.183333 degrees East longitude. (references) | 10: Dam is geographically located in Ghana. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 5.65 degrees North latitude and 0.233333 degree West longitude. (references) | 11: Dam is geographically located in Indonesia. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 5.5062 degrees North latitude and 95.3757 degrees East longitude. The local population generally speaks Indonesian. (references) | 12: Dam is geographically located in Netherlands. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 51.716667 degrees North latitude and 6.033333 degrees East longitude. (references) | 13: Dam is geographically located in Nigeria. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 10.583333 degrees North latitude and 12.05 degrees East longitude. (references) | 14: Dam is geographically located in Pakistan. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 25.451111 degrees North latitude and 66.561944 degrees East longitude. (references) | 15: Dam is geographically located in Saudi Arabia. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 20.483333 degrees North latitude and 44.833333 degrees East longitude. (references) | 16: Dam is geographically located in Senegal. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 14.483333 degrees North latitude and 16.466667 degrees West longitude. (references) | 17: Dam is geographically located in South Africa. Its features include a farm (a tract of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture). Its geographic coordinates are 29.1 degrees South latitude and 22.916667 degrees East longitude. (references) | 18: Dam is geographically located in Suriname. Its features include a destroyed populated place (a village, town or city destroyed by a natural disaster, or by war). Its geographic coordinates are 4.666667 degrees North latitude and 54.95 degrees West longitude. (references) | 19: Dam is geographically located in Turkey. Its features include a populated place (a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work). Its geographic coordinates are 37.479167 degrees North latitude and 40.52 degrees East longitude. (references) |
| Geology | A barrier constructed of earth or man-made materials to hold back the flow of a river. Dams are generally for storage or diversion. Storage dams store water; diversion dams divert water. (references) | ||
| Hydrologic | Any artificial barrier which impounds or diverts water. The dam is generally hydrologically significant if it is:. (references) | ||
| Law | DAM. 1. A construction of wood, stone, or other materials, made across a stream of water for the purpose of confining it; a mole. 2. The owner of a stream not navigable, may erect a dam across it, and employ the water in any reasonable manner, either for his use or pleasure, so as not to destroy or render useless, materially diminish, or affect the application of the water by the proprietors below on the stream. He must not shut the gates of his dams and detain the water unreasonably, nor let it off in unusual quantities to the annoyance of his neighbors. 4 Dall. 211; 3 Caines, 207; 13 Mass. 420; 3 Pick, 268; 2 N. H. Rep. 532; 17 John. 306; 3 John. Ch. Rep. 282; 3 Rawle, 256; 2 Conn. Rep. 584; 5 Pick. 199; 20 John. 90; 1 Pick. 180; 4 Id. 460; 2 Binn. 475; 14 Srrg. & Rawle, 71; Id. 9; 13 John. 212; 1 McCord, 580; 3 N. H. Rep. 321; 1 Halst. R. 1; 3 Kents Com. 354. 3. When one side of the stream is owned by one person and the other by another, neither, without the consent of the other, can build a dam which extends beyond the filum aqua, thread of the river, without committing a trespass. Cro. Eliz. 269; 12 Mass. 211; Ang. on W. C. 14, 104, 141; vide Lois des Bat. P. 1, c. 3, s. 1, a. 3; Poth. Traite du Contrat de Societe, second app. 236; Hill. Ab. Index, h.t.; 7 Cowen, R. 266; 2 Watts, R. 327; 3 Rawle, R. 90; 17 Mass. R. 289; 5 Pick. R. 175; 4 Mass. R. 401. Vide Inundation. (references) | ||
| Library Science | Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Dartmouth Secretaries Association. Hanover, N. H. (references) | ||
| Literature | Dam An Indian copper coin, the fortieth part of a rupee. Hence the expression "Not worth a dam"; similarly "not worth a farthing," "not worth a rap" (q.v.); "not worth a sou," "not worth a stiver," etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Military | Damage. (references) | ||
| Mining | 1: A. A barrier to keep foul air or water, from mine workings. See also: stopping; bulkhead b. An airtight barrier to isolate underground workings that are on fire c. The wall of refractory material, forming the front of the forehearth of a blast furnace, that is built on the inside of a supporting iron plate (dam plate). Iron is tapped through a hole in the dam, and cinder through a notch in the top of the dam. See also: Lurmann front. (references) | 2: See tillage, dam. (references) | |
| Slang in 1811 | DAM. A small Indian coin, mentioned in the Gentoo code of laws: hence etymologists may, if they please, derive the common expression, I do not care a dam, i.e. I do not care half a farthing for it. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Technology | 1: Diagnostic Acceptability Measurement. (references) | 2: Digital Asset Management. (references) | 3: Domain Analysis Methodology. (references) |
| Transportation | An engineering structure erected across and/or along a river or other mass of water to retain, control or divert the flow for specific purposes. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Etymology 1] Structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow. (references) | 2: [Etymology 2] Mother, generally regarding breeding of animals (compare sire). (references) | 3: [Etymology 2] To block the flow of water. (references) |
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Common Expressions: DAMMED
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Moraine dammed lake | A moraine dammed lake occurs when a terminal moraine has prevented some meltwater from leaving the valley. Its most common shape is that of a long ribbon (ribbon lake). An example of a moraine dammed lake is Llyn Peris and its twin Llyn Padarn in Wales. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: DAMMED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Glacier Dammed Lake | Hydrologic | The lake formed when a glacier flows across the mouth of an adjoining valley and forms an ice dam. (references) | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: dam
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| dam | Dutch | Decameter | Meteorology & Standards | |
| dam | English | Decametre | N/A | |
| dam | French | Décamètre | Meteorology & Standards | |
| DAM | German | Diazetylmonoxin | Medicine | |
| dam | Italian | Decametro | Meteorology & Standards | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | Top | |||
