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Definition: DAMMING

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Being balking. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. Being baffling.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb 1. Present participle 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]

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"Damming" is a common misspelling or typo for: damning, ramming, dramming.

Date "Damming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1821. (references)

Specialty Definition: DAMMING

Domain Definition
Health The seal at the posterior border of a denture. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: DAMMING

Expressions Domain Definition
Damming body Physics An obstacle in a flow which causes a damming-up. Source: European Union. (references)
Damming stage Physics An installation consisting of a weir and associated barriers constructions, embankments etc. Source: European Union. (references)
Posterior damming Medicine The seal at the posterior border of a denture. Source: European Union. (references)

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Topics by Level of Interest: DAMMING

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Cold air damming 9     Cold air damming 9

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"damming" is a common misspelling or typo for: damning, ramming, dramming.

Synonyms: damming
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Adjective

 butching.
Consider also: congesting.

Verb

 blocking, checking, barricading.
Consider also: preventing, barring, inhibiting, closing, impeding, obstructing, booming, choking, curbing, confining, arresting, containing, stemming, intercepting, clogging, hindering, prohibiting.

Noun

 discouragement, dyking.
Consider also: mothering, walling, dismay, disappointment, despair, determent, alarm, consternation, depression, deterrent.

Other

 barraging, diking.
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Computed Synonyms: damming

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   121.3196   damming     diking     leveeing, ditching, banking, gaping, trenching   
 2   81.3094   damming     barraging     diking, barricading, fencing, booming, dyking   
 3   61.3196   damming     dyking     ditching, leveeing, trenching, grooving, moling   
 4   52.3094   damming     leveeing     diking, jettying, banking, dyking, moling   
 5   42.3094   damming     jettying     moling, wharfing, quaying, leveeing, diking   
 6   41.3095   damming     moling     jettying, spotting, diking, blotching, bossing   
 7   37.3095   damming     pooling     ponding, puddling, storing, stocking, batching   
 8   36.3092   damming     causewaying     diking, leveeing, pavementing, moling, jettying   
 9   31.3093   damming     mothering     mummying, parenting, mother, molding, sourcing   
 10   28.3091   damming     obstructing     inhibiting, deterring, bothering, stemming, precluding   
 11   27.3096   damming     banking     bank, inclining, framing, ranging, ramping   
 12   26.3095   damming     limiting     frontiering, limitationing, limit, limited, stinting   
 13   23.3093   damming     bunkering     sheltering, bucketing, binning, refuging, obstacling   
 14   22.3093   damming     bucketing     boxing, barreling, barrelling, vesseling, bunkering   
 15   21.3094   damming     bottling     tanking, vesseling, phialing, tinning, jugging   
--------------------     575 synonyms ranked from 16 to 590 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: damming

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   2.0392   damming     to dam up     dam, to dam, to check   
 2   2.0092   damming     up against     across from, opposed to, in exchange for   
 3   2.0088   damming     across from     opposed to, in exchange for, against   
 4   2.0086   damming     circular parry     contrary to, counter to, in exchange for   
 5   2.0086   damming     in exchange for     opposed to, across from, against   
 6   1.3087   damming     calking of tubes     caulking of tubes, pending, swelling   
 7   1.3086   damming     caulking of tubes     calking of tubes, swelling, pending   
 8   1.0389   damming     diversion dam     weir, dam, dike   
 9   1.0387   damming     a natural dam     natural lake, lake   
 10   1.0092   damming     to embank     embank, restrain, govern   
 11   1.0092   damming     to stem     to check, to arrest, stop   
 12   1.0091   damming     to confine     confine, to restrict, enclose   
 13   1.0091   damming     to block     to obstruct, obstruct, clog   
 14   1.0088   damming     natural lake     a natural dam, natural reservoir, natural water reservoir   
 15   1.0085   damming     form an embankment     dam up, arrest, abstract   
--------------------     2 synonyms ranked from 16 to 17 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: damming

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   8.6696   damming lister     Damm lister     basin lister   
 2   8.6695   damming lister     basin lister     Damm lister, basin tiller   
 3   8.2092   damming lister     basin tiller     basin lister, Damm lister   
 4   3.9988   posterior damming     posterior palatal seal     palatal seal, post-dam   
 5   2.0489   posterior damming     post-dam     posterior palatal seal, palatal seal   
 6   2.0390   damming body     dam     weir, dike   
 7   2.0190   damming body     barricade     barrier, fence   
 8   2.0189   damming body     dike     dyke, embankment   
 9   2.0189   damming body     barrage     dam, weir   
 10   2.0184   posterior damming     palatal seal     posterior palatal seal   
 11   2.0087   damming stage     weir     dam, dike   
 12   1.7493   posterior damming     post-damming     post-dam, palatal seal   
 13   1.5093   damming up     stemming     stalking, stopping   
 14   1.3091   damming up     blocking     logging, parcelling   
 15   1.3090   damming body     king     chief, monarch   
--------------------     34 expressions ranked from 16 to 49 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top
Antonyms: damming
Position Antonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 freeing, releasing, unblocking, unloosing, deactivate, liberate, unbind, unchain, unleash.

Other

 uncloging.
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Translations: DAMMING

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya مُسَنَّاة (dam, dammed, damming, dams, dike), سَدّ (dam, block, dike, bar, barred). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha مُسَنَّاة (dam, dammed, damming, dams, dike), سَدّ (dam, block, dike, bar, barred). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic مُسَنَّاة (dam, dammed, damming, dams, dike), سَدّ (dam, block, dike, bar, barred). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Bahasa Indonesia pengempangan (blocking, damming up), pembendungan (damming up, impounding, stemming). Additional references: Bahasa Indonesia, Indonesia, Java, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian stavljanje brane (damming), přehrazující (damming), přehrazení (damming, barrage, partition), hráz (dam, weir, dyke, hedge, dike), ohrazení (enclosure, representation, circumvallation, enclosures, barricade), vzdouvání (heave, heaving, swell, surge, damming). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese represe (embank, damming). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Central Danish vaeksthusafgroeder bliver vandet ved opstemningsmetoder eller ved hjaelp af roerledninger med fordelerdyser (glasshouse crops are irrigated by the damming method or by pipelines with distributor nozzles), daemningsmur (damming wall), opstuvning (damming up of water), opdaemning af vand (damming up of water), chylusstase (damming up of chyle), opstemningstrin (damming stage), inddaemning af en kilde (damming off a spring), tværkamplov (basin lister, basin tiller, Damm lister, damming lister), opdæmningslegeme (damming body). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark, Germany, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina stavljanje brane (damming), přehrazující (damming), přehrazení (damming, barrage, partition), hráz (dam, weir, dyke, hedge, dike), ohrazení (enclosure, representation, circumvallation, enclosures, barricade), vzdouvání (heave, heaving, swell, surge, damming). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 拦阻 (barrage, barrages, damming, discouragement). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Corse cuntra (across from, against, against it, anti, bar). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsi cuntra (across from, against, against it, anti, bar). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsican cuntra (across from, against, against it, anti, bar). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Corso cuntra (across from, against, against it, anti, bar). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsu cuntra (across from, against, against it, anti, bar). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Croatian stavljanje brane (damming). Additional references: Croatian, Croatia, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech stavljanje brane (damming), přehrazující (damming), přehrazení (damming, barrage, partition), hráz (dam, weir, dyke, hedge, dike), ohrazení (enclosure, representation, circumvallation, enclosures, barricade), vzdouvání (heave, heaving, swell, surge, damming). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Danish vaeksthusafgroeder bliver vandet ved opstemningsmetoder eller ved hjaelp af roerledninger med fordelerdyser (glasshouse crops are irrigated by the damming method or by pipelines with distributor nozzles), daemningsmur (damming wall), opstuvning (damming up of water), opdaemning af vand (damming up of water), chylusstase (damming up of chyle), opstemningstrin (damming stage), inddaemning af en kilde (damming off a spring), tværkamplov (basin lister, basin tiller, Damm lister, damming lister), opdæmningslegeme (damming body). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Dansk vaeksthusafgroeder bliver vandet ved opstemningsmetoder eller ved hjaelp af roerledninger med fordelerdyser (glasshouse crops are irrigated by the damming method or by pipelines with distributor nozzles), daemningsmur (damming wall), opstuvning (damming up of water), opdaemning af vand (damming up of water), chylusstase (damming up of chyle), opstemningstrin (damming stage), inddaemning af en kilde (damming off a spring), tværkamplov (basin lister, basin tiller, Damm lister, damming lister), opdæmningslegeme (damming body). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch wasserabweisend (damming, hydrophobic), eindämmen (confine, embank, dam, stem, to embank), abdämmen (damming, to dam up, dam, to dam), staünd (damming, damming up), stauend (propelling, stowing, damming), Stauen von Wasser (damming of water), Abdämmen von Wasser (damming of water). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch waterkerend (damming), afdammen (obstruct, bar, dam up, form an embankment, dam), tegengaan (discountenance, discourage, oppose, damming, thwart), indammen (bank, bank up, damming, embank, limit), warmtebewarend (heat damming up), glascultuur wordt bevloeid door middel van het opstuwen van water of via buisleidingen met sproeiers (glasshouse crops are irrigated by the damming method or by pipelines with distributor nozzles), waterkerende muur (damming wall), opstuwing van water (damming up of water), stuwdam (dam, weir, lasher, barrage, damming stage), omkaden van een wel (damming off a spring). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish veden patoutuminen (damming up of water). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Français endiguement (embankment, construction levees, containment, damming, Ponding), qui sert de barrage (damming), contre (against, versus, across from, in exchange for, contra), joint palatin postérieur (palatal seal, post-dam, posterior damming, posterior palatal seal), dispositif cloisonneur (damming attachment), corps de retenue (damming body), étage de retenue (damming stage), postdam (posterior damming, posterior palatal seal), isolant thermiquement (heat damming up), plus hautes eaux navigables sans retenue (highest navigable flood level without damming). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
French endiguement (embankment, construction levees, containment, damming, Ponding), qui sert de barrage (damming), contre (against, versus, across from, in exchange for, contra), joint palatin postérieur (palatal seal, post-dam, posterior damming, posterior palatal seal), dispositif cloisonneur (damming attachment), corps de retenue (damming body), étage de retenue (damming stage), postdam (posterior damming, posterior palatal seal), isolant thermiquement (heat damming up), plus hautes eaux navigables sans retenue (highest navigable flood level without damming). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
German wasserabweisend (damming, hydrophobic), eindämmen (confine, embank, dam, stem, to embank), abdämmen (damming, to dam up, dam, to dam), staünd (damming, damming up), stauend (propelling, stowing, damming), Stauen von Wasser (damming of water), Abdämmen von Wasser (damming of water). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek θερμομονωτικό (heat damming up), οι θερμοκηπιακές καλλιέργειες αρδεύονται με την μέθοδο των φραγμάτωνη με την βοήθεια σωληνώσεων εφοδιασμένων με στόμια διανομής του νερο (glasshouse crops are irrigated by the damming method or by pipelines with distributor nozzles), υδατοφράκτης (damming stage), κατασκευή αναχωμάτων γύρω από μια πηγή (damming off a spring), φράγμα (dam, barrier, barricade, barricades, grating). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Greek (transliteration) thermomonotiko (heat damming up), oi thermokipiakes kallieryes ardheuondai me tin methodho ton fragmatoni me tin voitheia solinoseon efodhiasmenon me stomia dhianomis toi nero (glasshouse crops are irrigated by the damming method or by pipelines with distributor nozzles), idhatofraktis (damming stage), kataskeii anakhomaton yro apo mia piy (damming off a spring), fragma (dam, barrier, barricade, barricades, grating). Additional references: Greek, Greece, Albania, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Hebrew סכירה (closing, damming). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic مُسَنَّاة (dam, dammed, damming, dams, dike), سَدّ (dam, block, dike, bar, barred). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
High German wasserabweisend (damming, hydrophobic), eindämmen (confine, embank, dam, stem, to embank), abdämmen (damming, to dam up, dam, to dam), staünd (damming, damming up), stauend (propelling, stowing, damming), Stauen von Wasser (damming of water), Abdämmen von Wasser (damming of water). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch wasserabweisend (damming, hydrophobic), eindämmen (confine, embank, dam, stem, to embank), abdämmen (damming, to dam up, dam, to dam), staünd (damming, damming up), stauend (propelling, stowing, damming), Stauen von Wasser (damming of water), Abdämmen von Wasser (damming of water). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Hungarian duzzasztás (damming, banking-up, gathering, pending, swelling). Additional references: Hungarian, Hungary, Austria, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Indonesian pengempangan (blocking, damming up), pembendungan (damming up, impounding, stemming). Additional references: Indonesian, Indonesia, Java, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Ivrit סכירה (closing, damming). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese せき止める (dam, back, coffer, damming, pond). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Magyar duzzasztás (damming, banking-up, gathering, pending, swelling). Additional references: Magyar, Hungary, Austria, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Polish zatrzymywanie sciekow w osadnikach (sewage damming). Additional references: Polish, Poland, Czech Republic, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Polnisch zatrzymywanie sciekow w osadnikach (sewage damming). Additional references: Polnisch, Poland, Czech Republic, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Polski zatrzymywanie sciekow w osadnikach (sewage damming). Additional references: Polski, Poland, Czech Republic, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese represe (embank, damming), derregador margeador (basin lister, basin tiller, Damm lister, damming lister), dispositivo margeador (damming attachment). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Ruotsi uppdammande (damming), dammning (damming), värmeisolerande (heat damming up), uppdämning av vatten (damming up of water). Additional references: Ruotsi, Sweden, Finland, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Sjaelland vaeksthusafgroeder bliver vandet ved opstemningsmetoder eller ved hjaelp af roerledninger med fordelerdyser (glasshouse crops are irrigated by the damming method or by pipelines with distributor nozzles), daemningsmur (damming wall), opstuvning (damming up of water), opdaemning af vand (damming up of water), chylusstase (damming up of chyle), opstemningstrin (damming stage), inddaemning af en kilde (damming off a spring), tværkamplov (basin lister, basin tiller, Damm lister, damming lister), opdæmningslegeme (damming body). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish represar (dam, impound, stem, bank, damming), embalse (reservoir, dam, damming, head, pond), represamiento (damming), embalse natural de agua (a lake contained by a natural dam, a natural dam, damming, lake, natural lake), aislante del calor (heat damming up), cultivador poceador (basin lister, basin tiller, Damm lister, damming lister), arado poceador (basin lister, basin tiller, Damm lister, damming lister), arado líster a hoyos (basin lister, basin tiller, Damm lister, damming lister), alomador con mecanismo represador (basin lister, basin tiller, Damm lister, damming lister), mecanismo represador (damming attachment). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea veden patoutuminen (damming up of water). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi veden patoutuminen (damming up of water). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Svenska uppdammande (damming), dammning (damming), värmeisolerande (heat damming up), uppdämning av vatten (damming up of water). Additional references: Svenska, Sweden, Finland, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
Swedish uppdammande (damming), dammning (damming), värmeisolerande (heat damming up), uppdämning av vatten (damming up of water). Additional references: Swedish, Sweden, Finland, damming. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: DAMMING

Language Translations for “damming” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag dathagammathaging (damming). Additional references: Athag, damming. (volunteer)
Double Dutch dagammaging (damming). Additional references: Double Dutch, damming. (volunteer)
Leet [)4//.//.|[\]6 (damming). Additional references: Leet, damming. (volunteer)
Oppish dopammoping (damming). Additional references: Oppish, damming. (volunteer)
Pig Latin ammingday (damming). Additional references: Pig Latin, damming. (volunteer)
Terran B represenn (damming). Additional references: Terran B, damming. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi dubammubing (damming). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, damming. (volunteer)
Source: compiled by the editor. Top