I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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A previous California resources secretary proposed building bigger dams on California's rivers as a solution to the water crisis.
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We had few big dams in California then.
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At one time my major ambition was to have my father buy me an excavator so that I could make really big dams .
dental
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So it's no wonder that we have heard very little about dental dams .
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She and her partner, woman or man, need to know about dental dams .
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Yet in Manchester, where I live, there is no freely available information about outlets for dental dams .
high
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There was the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, an almost sheer thousand-foot gorge with several sites for high dams .
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At 357 feet high , the dam has grown by nearly a third.
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The problem with a high dam , however, was Congress.
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A high dam would end their migration, irrevocably.
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It was not, however, a foundation for a low dam-it was the foundation of a high dam.
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In the beginning, before construction began, a high dam was out of the question.
hydroelectric
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Reservoirs, rivers and snowpack are too low to power hydroelectric dams without further imperiling endangered salmon runs.
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It has also promised not to build any new hydroelectric dams , the source of the rest of the country's electricity.
ilisu
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The decision on the Ilisu dam project would be the test case of its efficacy.
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However, the local Kurds and outside pressure groups claim that the Ilisu dam would inundate much of the area including Hasankeyf.
large
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It documented the huge social costs of large dams , with up to 80m people dispossessed and millions more impoverished.
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A very, very large dam .
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In this chapter we shall examine the diffusion of three technologies to developing countries: microcomputers, hand pumps and large dams .
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The largest arch support dam in the world, it measured nearly two hundred feet high and some two hundred feet long.
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Its largest dam is San Luis in central California; its most magnificent dam is Hoover.
low
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The Bureau, however, was not interested in a low dam .
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At that point, there was no question of intent; a low dam was specifically mentioned in the appropriation.
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The contract also specified a low dam .
new
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Between 150 and 175 new dams will be needed.
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So you threw up on their new dam .
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Hundreds of new dams , diversions and canals are planned.
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Beavers were making new dams in alfalfa fields.
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It has also promised not to build any new hydroelectric dams , the source of the rest of the country's electricity.
■ NOUN
ice
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Big, long icicles hanging from the eaves are not necessarily a sign of ice dams .
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I am concerned about ice dams .
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On houses with cold roofs, that melting occurs from the top down, without ice dams .
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On houses with warm roofs, the melting occurs from the bottom up, creating the ice dam .
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I have no icicles and no ice dam , but the snow must be three feet deep on my roof.
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And, it causes ice dams on a few unfortunate abodes.
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With ice dams come leaks through the roof into the attic and through ceilings, staining them and often doing more damage.
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So, you wait, doing things later that will prevent ice dams in the future.
project
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In other countries smaller dam projects have created bodies of water in which mosquitoes thrive.
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Following widespread protests the government announced the cancellation of the dam project in early March.
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And the Government declared the dam project illegal - in spite of its expressed faith in co-operative ventures.
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The decision on the Ilisu dam project would be the test case of its efficacy.
■ VERB
build
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We can build dams , like the beaver, without love.
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Mulholland, of course, knew this, but still refused to build the dam at Long Valley.
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It has also promised not to build any new hydroelectric dams , the source of the rest of the country's electricity.
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But it made no better sense, Johnson quickly added, for the Corps to build the dam instead.
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Our churches and cathedrals rot while we build dams and factories to worship as objects.
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It was quite another thing to build a dam , store the water, and make the desert bloom.
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He was absolutely convinced that building a dam in Yosemite Valley was the proper thing to do.
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The engineers would build the dam and the irrigation features and walk away from it.
complete
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Environmentalists fear that, if completed , the hydro-electric dam will severely disrupt the Danube ecosystem.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Kariba Dam
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the Hoover Dam in Nevada
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dam had saved the lake and its fish.
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A high dam would end their migration, irrevocably.
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Big, long icicles hanging from the eaves are not necessarily a sign of ice dams.
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He was absolutely convinced that building a dam in Yosemite Valley was the proper thing to do.
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The dam was finished and in service by September of 1941, an unbelievable sight.
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The dams etc may also have been designed to attract industry and so benefit the country in the long term.
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Work on the dam began in 1983 but was held up by economic and environmental objections.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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Kidneys clog with protein from damaged muscles, damming up toxins in the blood.
■ NOUN
river
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The contrasurvival engram is to the dynamics like a log jam which dams a necessary river .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The East Branch River was dammed in 1952.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In 1933, the Columbia was by far the biggest river anyone had ever dreamed about damming.
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Kidneys clog with protein from damaged muscles, damming up toxins in the blood.
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The Northwest had plenty of smaller rivers, much more easily dammed.
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The Stanislaus River is dammed fourteen times on its short run to the sea.