dam

IPA: dˈæm

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.
The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure.
(dentistry) A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
(South Africa, Australia) A reservoir.
A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.
A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.
(India) An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.
A former coin of Nepal, 128 of which were worth one mohar.
Initialism of digital asset management.

Examples of "dam" in Sentences

Its swift and dangerous when the dam is producing electricty.
Massive curtain dam gathers steam Written by GR Staff Saturday, 21 March 2009
Completed in 1991, the dam is a joint effort of of the governments of Brazil and Paraguay.
Without repair the dam is in danger of failure, a multi million dollar erosion catastrophe.
And so in China, the army starts displacing villagers to begin what it calls a dam-building project.
Apparently, the dam is already under a lot of stress because of all the silt that the river carries that it used to dump on the floodplain.
Tie on 1/0 bait hook with canned corn, a slip sinker setup, and toss it out below a Wisconsin dam on a warm Sept. morning and hang on tight!
Two large canals extend along the other two sides of the city up to the vertex, where they join and meet a river called the Rotte, which name, prefixed to the word dam, meaning dyke, gives Rotterdam.