Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow.
- Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals (correlative to sire).
- (dentistry) A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
- A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.
- (South Africa, Australia) A reservoir.
- A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
- (India) An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.
Verbit
- To block the flow of water.
Esimerkit
- 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.
- 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.
- she / Resolved that Juan should be quite a paragon, / And worthy of the noblest pedigree / (His sire was from Castile, his dam from Aragon).
- The sky was cloudless—the moon rolled across the surface like a lamb searching for its dam.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | dammed | Imperfekti | dammed |
| Partisiipin preesens | damming | Monikko | dams |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | dams | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | dammeth (vanhahtava) |