| 词汇 | dam |
| 释义 | dam noun[ C ] uk /dæm/ us /dæm/ damnoun[C] (WALL)a wall built across a river that stops the river's flow and collects the water, especially to make a reservoir (= an artificial lake) that provides water for an area: （尤指旨在蓄水的）堤坝，水坝 The Aswan High Dam is on the River Nile in Egypt.阿斯旺大坝位于埃及境内的尼罗河上。 Compare dyke(WALL) Katsuhiro Yamanashi/Sebun Photo/amana images/GettyImages Ditches, dams & tunnels cut cutting dam something up dike ditch dyke groin groyne ha ha inspection chamber spillway subway the Channel Tunnel the Chunnel trench tunnel tunneller underpass damnoun[C] (MOTHER)the female parent of an animal, especially a horse: The horse has American bloodlines on his dam's side. Ask about the health and temperament of the sire and dam, the parents of the dog. Compare sire The stamina inherited from his dam was the key to him winning the Millennium Derby. In thoroughbred breeding, horses that have only the same mother are considered half-siblings, while those with the same sire and dam are full siblings. Cigalas is the Spanish for langoustines, and therein lies the origin of the colt's name as his dam is Langoustine. Family: relations in general anti-family aunt auntie baby daddy baby mama father fatherhood filial filially first cousin kinsman kinswoman kith and kin long-lost loved one relationship relative removed second cousin sib You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Names for the male & female of animals Horses & similar animals damnoun[C] (MOUTH)a dental dam（dental dam） Dentistry brace central giant cell granuloma dental floss dental hygienist dental practitioner dental surgeon dentigerous cyst dentist dentistry denture extraction grind odontologist odontology oral irrigator oral surgeon orthodontic orthodontics orthodontist toothpick dam verb[ T ] uk /dæm/ us /dæm/-mm- to build a dam across a river in order to store water在（河上）筑坝蓄水 Closing and blocking barricade batten batten down the hatchesidiom be snowed upidiom block something off bung choke closet closing time congest cork dam something up fur sandbag seal something in seal something off self-seal self-sealing silt the darkest hour is just before the dawnidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Ditches, dams & tunnels Phrasal verbdam something up dam | American Dictionarydam noun[ C ] us/dæm/ a wall built across a river to stop the flow and collect the water, esp. to make a reservoir (= an artificial lake) that provides water for an area or can be used to make electricity dam verb[ T ] us/dæm/-mm- to build a dam across a river in order to store the water: [ M ]Fish are affected when a river is dammed up. DAM | Business EnglishDAM noun[ U ] ITukus abbreviation fordigital asset management Examples of damdam They then join with community members in participatory processes in order to evaluate dam planning. Each subfamily was obtained by crossing one sire with five dams. In this pedigree only 7 dams were crossed with more than 1 sire while 6 sires were mated with more than one dam. Because each dam was mated with only one sire, 146 full-sib families and ten half-sib families were produced. This is a simple half-sib population, with each sire having 30 progeny and each dam only one progeny. If s1 is chosen in this way, then the upstream dam will normally be larger, and the downstream smaller. Canoeing took place on a farm dam which was filled by pump from the local river. Locks allow vessels to move across dams, but may constitute a capacity bottleneck in the waterway network. The lambs were the offspring of 37 sires and 491 dams. It gradually reached the southeast and the north as large dams were also constructed in those locales. When nursed by a control-fed dam, the pancreatic weight was comparable with controls by weaning. The longitudinal sections extend up to two kilometers downstream of the dam. They are the only groups who can know the immediate local impacts of the dam. I began to teach them courses about environmental legislation and law and social and environmental impacts of big dams. And there was still no dam after the second and third batches. See all examples of dam These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withdamdamThese are words often used in combination with dam. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. concrete dam The concretedam is 13.7 metres high. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. dam project Economic interests, such as a corporation funding a damproject, often intercede in the regulatory process. dam site The damsite is at. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with dam |
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