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DAM

DAM

15 7.5
Software that stores and helps you find digital images, videos, and design files
  • noun
  • /dæm/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sistema de gestión de activos digitales
  • Four water-filled rubber dams that stair-step in height from tailwater to headwater elevations would be used.

Examples

  • The DAM software helped the design team quickly organize and retrieve all the images for the project.

  • Using a DAM system allows photographers to efficiently manage their vast collections of digital photos.

  • This is another from DAM program, another model.

  • The first is one about Highland Press, a publisher where DAM is the co-publisher.

    Blog text (20)
  • We built the Aswan Dam and claimed it was going to revitalize the country.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • The Italian government is set to implement a high-tech dam system by 2016 to deal with future floods.

    Blog text (27)
  • We've got the new specs for the dam.

  • Their fish passage efforts included small dam removal, diversion improvements, screens for diversion ditches, and a fish ladder.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Major hydropower projects such as the Three Gorges Dam entail habitat damage and population displacements and have proven internationally controversial.

    Academic text (2013)
  • After implementing the new DAM solution, the marketing team found it much easier to access video assets for their campaigns.

Idioms

7.5

Something bad that already happened and cannot be changed so do not worry about it

Compounds

4 3.7

A large concrete dam on the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona that makes electricity and forms Lake Mead

A large dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona that forms Lake Powell

1 4.6

A large dam on the Nile in southern Egypt that controls floods, supplies water for farming and makes electricity

4.0

A large dam on the Nile in southern Egypt that controls floods, supplies water for farming, and makes electricity

A large dam on the Nile in southern Egypt that controls flooding, stores water and makes electricity

9.9

A language that Tai Dam people speak in northern and southern Vietnam

tinker's dam
  • Archaic
9.9

Something of very little or no value

Surface Forms

dam singular
dams plural

Morphology

DAM = D + A + M

This is an initialism (letters D, A, M) whose component letters do not convey the meaning 'Digital Asset Management' to learners, so the word is opaque without knowing the expansion.

Etymology

DAM stands for Digital Asset Management, where Digital means 'on computers', Asset means 'a valuable thing', and Management means 'looking after'. So a DAM is a system to store, organise and quickly find your important images, videos and design files.