High Dam
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- proper noun
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- One nuke on the Aswan High Dam, and Egypt ceases to exist as a habitable place.
- Aswan High Dam
Examples
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The High Dam was built, which helped Egypt reclaim more land for agriculture, as well as providing a source of electrical energy for industry and the countryside.
Academic text (1992) -
When courting Cairo failed, Washington refused to provide the Egyptians with requested weapons and later withdrew its offer to fund the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
Academic text (2014) -
Although this has resulted in riverbed erosion in Egypt, it has reduced the threat to the High Dam at Aswan.
Academic text (2008) -
The decision of Egypt to build the Aswan High Dam, which would flood many important archaeological sites in Nubia, aroused international concern.
Academic text (1992) -
The remaining 10 billion cubic meters were reserved for mean annual evaporation and seepage losses from Lake Nasser behind the Aswan High Dam.
Academic text (2008) -
They put a two-foot high dam across the creek (blue line) and diverted the water into a mile of ditch that they dug from there to a lake that they built by the house.
Blog text (15) -
Before the construction of the new Aswan High Dam in Egypt, the Jebel Aulia Dam was built on the White Nile to support the dry season flow to the Aswan Dam.
Academic text (2008) -
The Aswan High Dam is crucial for controlling flooding in southern Egypt.
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Construction of the High Dam at Aswan enabled Egypt to generate significant hydroelectric power.
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The High Dam has transformed irrigation systems, allowing farmers to expand their fields in Egypt.
Synonyms
A large dam on the Nile in southern Egypt that controls flooding, stores water and makes electricity
A large dam on the Nile in southern Egypt that controls floods, supplies water for farming, and makes electricity
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense of 'High Dam' is directly compositional: 'high' (tall) modifying 'dam' (engineered barrier), so a learner who knows both words will readily infer it denotes a tall dam. Although it functions as a proper name for the Aswan High Dam, the adjective+noun structure is regular and cross-linguistically common, making the expression transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
High Dam is called that because it is a very tall dam built on the Nile at Aswan. Being so high, the dam can 'hold back' flood water, create Lake Nasser, and 'make electricity', so the name shows what the structure does today.