Found 5 items, similar to dam.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: dam bendungan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: dam bendung, bendungan, beremban, dam, empang, empangan, membendung, mengempang, pengempang, tanggul
Indonesian → English (quick) Definition: dam checkers, dam
English → English (WordNet) Definition: dam dam n 1: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea [syn: dike, dyke, levee] 2: a metric unit of length equal to ten meters [syn: decameter, dekameter, decametre, dekametre, dkm] 3: female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock [also: damming, dammed] dam v : obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; “dam the gorges of the Yangtse River” [syn: dam up] [also: damming, dammed]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Dam Dam \Dam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dammed (d[a^]md); 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. [1913 Webster] I'll have the current in this place dammed up. --Shak. [1913 Webster] A weight of earth that dams in the water. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster] 2. To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain. [1913 Webster] The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt behind, and cowards. --Shak. [1913 Webster] To dam out, to keep out by means of a dam. [1913 Webster] Dam \Dam\ (d[a^]m), 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] The dam runs lowing up and down, Looking the way her harmless young one went. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A king or crowned piece in the game of draughts. [1913 Webster] Dam \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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Metal.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace. [1913 Webster] Dam plate (Blast Furnace), an iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it. [1913 Webster]