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/ˈdæm/ · noun
A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding..
A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country.
Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins[…]
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
Boats may only be used at places set aside for boating on the dam.
Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]
More dear […] than younglings to their dam.
The dam runs lowing up and down, / Looking the way her harmless young one went.
Hunters assure us, that to chuse the best dog, and which they purpose to keepe from out a litter of other young whelps, there is no better meane than the damme herselfe[…].
Use dam' when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dam' means A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding..
Common synonyms include dental dam, oral dam, dike, levee.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country.
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