Lake Mead
- proper noun
- /leɪk miːd/
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Lago Mead
- Visitors to Lake Mead enjoy various activities like boating, fishing, and hiking along its shores.
- water from Lake Mead
Examples
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Below Lake Mead, released through the turbines of Hoover Dam, the Colorado rages through a narrow, steep canyon for several miles.
Academic text (1993) -
Powell recalls the trip to the vet and going with his father to bury Poochie near Lake Mead.
Blog text (29) -
But Lake Mead is different.
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That's Lake Mead behind the dam.
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In recent years, I had visited the dam and adjacent reservoir, Lake Mead, as a journalist who reports on water.
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The combined surface area of just two of the artificial lakes on the Colorado River, Lakes Mead and Powell, for example, is more than 500 square miles, or about half the size of Rhode Island.
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Never mind that we drink recycled sewage anyway; never mind that 2007 was California's driest year on record; never mind that Lake Mead is at 50 percent of capacity and the level is still falling.
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Many parts of California experienced their driest year on record in 2007, while Lake Mead—the largest reservoir in the Western United States—is at 50 percent of capacity.
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PHOTO (COLOR): One of the greatest of the concrete megaliths built to control a river system, Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead at Nevada's Arizona border.
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Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States, located on the border of Nevada and Arizona.
Surface Forms
Morphology
lake + Mead
The structure is directly compositional: 'lake' denotes a body of water and 'Mead' functions as a proper name, so a learner who knows both constituents will understand this refers to a lake called Mead. Detailed facts (that it is the largest US reservoir or formed by Hoover Dam) are encyclopedic and not derivable from the words, but the basic referential meaning is transparent.
Etymology
Lake Mead takes its name from Elwood Mead, the man who ran U.S. water projects when the Hoover Dam was built. When the dam filled the valley and made a large 'reservoir', people called it Lake Mead, so today the name means the big man-made 'lake' on the Colorado River.
