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dam1    Audio Help   [dam] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, dammed, dam·ming.
–noun
1.a barrier to obstruct the flow of water, esp. one of earth, masonry, etc., built across a stream or river.
2.a body of water confined by a dam.
3.any barrier resembling a dam.
–verb (used with object)
4.to furnish with a dam; obstruct or confine with a dam.
5.to stop up; block up.
[Origin: 1275–1325; ME < MD, MLG, dam; akin to OE for-demman to stop up, block]

—Synonyms 5. impede, clog, check, choke.
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dam2    Audio Help   [dam] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a female parent (used esp. of four-footed domestic animals).
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME; var. of dame]
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(Carl Pe·ter) Hen·rik    Audio Help   [kahrl pee-ter hen-rik; Dan. kahrl pey-tuhr hen-rik] Pronunciation Key, 1895–1976, Danish biochemist: Nobel prize for medicine 1943.
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dam
dekameter; dekameters.
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dam 1    Audio Help   (dām)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. A barrier constructed across a waterway to control the flow or raise the level of water.
    2. A body of water controlled by such a barrier.
  2. A barrier against the passage of liquid or loose material, as a rubber sheet used in dentistry to isolate one or more teeth from the rest of the mouth.
  3. An obstruction; a hindrance.

tr.v.   dammed, dam·ming, dams
  1. To hold back or confine by means of a dam.
  2. To close up; obstruct: He tried to dam his grief. See Synonyms at hinder1.


[Middle English.]

dam'mer n.
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dam 2    Audio Help   (dām)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Abbr. d. A female parent. Used of a four-legged animal.
  2. Archaic A mother.


[Middle English dam, dame, lady, mother; see dame.]

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dam 3  
abbr.   decameter

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Dam    Audio Help   (dām, däm)  Pronunciation Key 
Danish biochemist. He shared a 1943 Nobel Prize for the discovery of vitamin K.

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dec·a·me·ter or dek·a·me·ter    Audio Help   (děk'ə-mē'tər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Abbr. dam or dkm
A metric unit of length equal to 10 meters.

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dam  (1)
"water barrier," c.1325, probably from O.N. dammr or M.Du. dam, both from P.Gmc. *dammaz, of unknown origin.

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dam  (2)
"animal mother," 1297, variant of dame (q.v.), also originally used, like that word, for "lady, mother;" but meanings diverged into separate spellings by 16c.

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noun
1. a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea 
2. a metric unit of length equal to ten meters [syn: decameter] 
3. female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock 

verb
1. obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River" 

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dam

see water over the dam.


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dam1 [dӕm] noun
a bank or wall of earth, concrete etc to keep back water
Example: A new dam was being built at the mouth of the valley.
Arabic: سَد
Chinese (Simplified): 堤坝
Chinese (Traditional): 堤壩
Czech: hráz; přehrada
Danish: dæmning; dige
Dutch: dam
Estonian: tamm
Finnish: pato
French: barrage
German: der Staudamm
Greek: φράγμα
Hungarian: (védő)gát
Icelandic: stífla
Indonesian: bendungan
Italian: barriera, diga
Japanese: ダム
Korean: 댐, 둑
Latvian: dambis; aizsprosts
Lithuanian: užtvanka
Norwegian: demning, dike
Polish: tama
Portuguese (Brazil): barragem
Portuguese (Portugal): represa
Romanian: baraj
Russian: плотина
Slovak: hrádza; priehrada
Slovenian: jez
Spanish: dique
Swedish: fördämning
Turkish: baraj, bend
dam2 [dӕm] noun
the water kept back
Arabic: ماء السَّد
Chinese (Simplified): 拦在堤坝里的水
Chinese (Traditional): 攔在堤壩裡的水
Czech: přehradní jezero
Danish: opdæmmet vand
Dutch: stuwmeer
Estonian: paisvesi
Finnish: padottu vesi
French: réservoir
German: der Stausee
Greek: νερό που συγκρατείται από φράγμα
Hungarian: gát
Icelandic: uppistöðulón
Indonesian: waduk
Italian: bacino d'acqua*
Japanese: せきとめた水
Korean: 저수, 댐의 물
Latvian: aizdambējuma ūdens
Lithuanian: užtvenktas vanduo
Norwegian: dam, vann
Polish: zbiornik
Portuguese (Brazil): represa
Portuguese (Portugal): represa
Romanian: dig
Russian: запруда
Slovak: priehradné jazero
Slovenian: jez
Spanish: presa, embalse
Swedish: damm
Turkish: set
dam [dӕm] verb
to hold back by means of a dam
Example: The river has been dammed up.
Arabic: يَحجِز بواسِطة سَد
Chinese (Simplified): 筑坝拦水
Chinese (Traditional): 築壩攔水
Czech: přehradit
Danish: opdæmme
Dutch: afdammen, indammen
Estonian: tammistama
Finnish: padota
French: endiguer
German: stauen
Greek: φράζω, συγκρατώ
Hungarian: gátat emel vminek
Icelandic: stífla
Indonesian: membendung
Italian: arginare
Japanese: ダムでせきとめる
Korean: 댐으로 물을 가두다
Latvian: aizdambēt; aizsprostot
Lithuanian: užtvenkti
Norwegian: demme opp, sperre av
Polish: przegrodzić, spiętrzyć
Portuguese (Brazil): represar
Portuguese (Portugal): represar
Romanian: a în­digui
Russian: перегораживать плотиной
Slovak: prehradiť
Slovenian: zajeziti
Spanish: embalsar
Swedish: fördämma, dämma för (till, upp)
Turkish: baraj, *bent yapmak
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Beaver Dam, KY (city, FIPS 4654) Location: 37.40854 N, 86.87796 W
Population (1990): 2904 (1297 housing units)
Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 42320

Parker Dam, CA Zip code(s): 92267

Navajo Dam, NM Zip code(s): 87419

Natural Dam, AR Zip code(s): 72948

Fontana Dam, NC Zip code(s): 28733

Federal Dam, MN (city, FIPS 20798) Location: 47.23848 N, 94.21884 W
Population (1990): 118 (96 housing units)
Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 56641

Coulee Dam, WA (town, FIPS 15115) Location: 47.96874 N, 118.97445 W
Population (1990): 1087 (528 housing units)
Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 99116

Conchas Dam, NM Zip code(s): 88416

Buchanan Dam, TX (CDP, FIPS 10984) Location: 30.79914 N, 98.43833 W
Population (1990): 1099 (995 housing units)
Area: 19.7 sq km (land), 32.5 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 78609

Beaver Dam, WI (city, FIPS 5900) Location: 43.46400 N, 88.83716 W
Population (1990): 14196 (5997 housing units)
Area: 12.3 sq km (land), 3.5 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 53916

Shamokin Dam, PA (borough, FIPS 69616) Location: 40.85313 N, 76.82246 W
Population (1990): 1690 (754 housing units)
Area: 4.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)

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Dam\, n. [OE. dame mistress, lady; also, mother, dam. See Dame.]

1. A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.

Our sire and dam, now confined to horses, are a relic of this age (13th century) . . . .Dame is used of a hen; we now make a great difference between dame and dam. --T. L. K. Oliphant.

The dam runs lowing up end down, Looking the way her harmless young one went. --Shak.

2. A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
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Dam\, n. [Akin to OLG., D., & Dan. dam, G. & Sw. damm, Icel. dammr, and AS. fordemman to stop up, Goth. Fa['u]rdammjan.]

1. A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

2. (Metal.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

Dam plate (Blast Furnace), an iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it.
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Dam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dammed; p. pr. & vb. n. Damming.]

1. To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.

I'll have the current in this place dammed up. --Shak.

A weight of earth that dams in the water. --Mortimer.

2. To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt behind, and cowards. --Shak.

To dam out, to keep out by means of a dam.
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DAM
  1. diacetylmonoxime
  2. divorced Asian male

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