dam
- noun
- /dæm/
- Specialized
Examples
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Take out the dams stand up to oil
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♪ No more dams I'll make for fish ♪ ♪ Nor fetch in firing At requiring ♪ ♪ Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish ♪ ♪ 'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-Ca-Ca-Ca-Ca-Caliban ♪ ♪ Has a new master!
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The new bridge spans a distance of one dam across the valley.
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A survey measured the distance from the town to the next dam to be exactly three dams.
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During our hike, we found that the creek was just two dams wide at its widest point.
Synonyms
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7.9
A unit of length equal to ten meters
A unit of length that is ten meters long
A unit of length equal to ten metres
Idioms
- Informal
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7.5
Something bad that already happened and cannot be changed so do not worry about it
Compounds
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3.7
A large concrete dam on the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona that makes electricity and forms Lake Mead
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4.0
A large dam on the Nile in southern Egypt that controls floods, supplies water for farming, and makes electricity
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4.6
A large dam on the Nile in southern Egypt that controls floods, supplies water for farming and makes electricity
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4.6
A large dam on the Nile in southern Egypt that controls flooding, stores water and makes electricity
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word dam for ten metres is a short form of deca- + 'metre', where deca- means 'ten' (as in decade), so a dam is ten metres long.