CORE WALL (OF A DAM)

Meaning of CORE WALL (OF A DAM) in English

A wall built of impervious material, usually concrete or asphaltic concrete, in the body of an Embankment Dam to prevent leakage.

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WALL — I Any of various upright constructions used to divide or enclose a room or building. In traditional masonry construction, curtain …
Английский словарь Британика
DAM — I Barrier built across a stream, river, or estuary to conserve water for such uses as human consumption, irrigation, flood …
Английский словарь Британика
WALL — I. ˈwȯl noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English weall rampart, wall; akin to Old Saxon wal …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DAM — I. ˈdam, ˈdaa(ə)m noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, lady, dam, variant of dame — more at dame : …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
DAM — (v. t.) To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a …
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DAM — dam 1 /dam/ , n. , v. , dammed, damming . n. 1. a barrier to obstruct the flow of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CORE — core 1 — coreless , adj. /kawr, kohr/ , n. , v. , cored, coring . n. 1. the central …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WALL — I. ˈwȯl noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English weall; akin to Middle High German wall; both from Latin vallum …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DAM — I. ˈdam noun Etymology: Middle English dam, dame lady, dam — more at dame Date: 13th century : the female …
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CORE — I. ˈkȯr noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century 1. : a central and often foundational part …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WALL — noun the side of a level or drift. 2. wall ·noun the country rock bounding a vein laterally. 3. wall …
Webster English vocab
DAM — noun a kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts. 2. dam ·noun a firebrick wall, or a stone, …
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CORE — noun a hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. 2. core ·noun a miner's underground working time or shift. 3. …
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WALL — [wall] n [ME, fr. OE weall; akin to MHG wall; both fr. L vallum rampart, fr. vallus stake, palisade; perh. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CORE — [core] n, often attrib [ME] (14c) 1: a central and often foundational part usu. distinct from the enveloping part by …
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DAM — barrier built across a stream, river, or estuary to confine and check the flow of water for such uses as …
Britannica English vocabulary
WALL — / wɔːl; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. a long vertical solid structure, made of stone, brick or …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DAM — / dæm; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. a barrier that is built across a river in order …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CORE — / kɔː(r); NAmE / noun , adjective , verb ■ noun 1. the hard central part of a fruit such …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WALL — I. wall 1 S1 W1 /wɔːl $ wɒːl/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: weall ] …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DAM — I. dam 1 /dæm/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Middle Dutch ] 1 . a special …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CORE — I. core 1 W3 AC /kɔː $ kɔːr/ BrE AmE noun [countable] 1 . FRUIT the hard central part of …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WALL — n. & v. --n. 1 a a continuous and usu. vertical structure of usu. brick or stone, having little width …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
WALL — n. & v. n. 1 a a continuous and usu. vertical structure of usu. brick or stone, having little width …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CORE — n. & v. n. 1 the horny central part of various fruits, containing the seeds. 2 a the central or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
WALL — n. & v. --n. 1. a a continuous and usu. vertical structure of usu. brick or stone, having little width …
Oxford English vocab
CORE — n. & v. --n. 1. the horny central part of various fruits, containing the seeds. 2 a the central or …
Oxford English vocab
WALL — ( walls) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. A wall is one …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DAM — ( dams, damming, dammed) 1. A dam is a wall that is built across a river in order to stop …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CORE — ( cores, coring, cored) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. The core …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WALL — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a boundary wall/fence ▪ The boundary wall was about twenty foot high. a company …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DAM — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE big ▪ A previous California resources secretary proposed building bigger dams on California's …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CORE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a core/common curriculum (= the subjects that everyone must study because they are considered …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WALL — [noun] [C] - a vertical structure, often made of stone or brick, that divides or encloses somethingThe walls in this …
Cambridge English vocab
DAM — [verb] [T] -mm-To dam a river is to build a dam across it in order to store the water.They're going …
Cambridge English vocab
WALL — n. Antonine Wall bearing wall load bearing wall Berlin Wall cavity wall curtain wall Great Wall of China Hadrian's Wall …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
DAM — n. Aswan High Dam Hoover Dam Boulder Dam Three Gorges Dam Project
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
DAM — n. Barrier built across a stream, river, or estuary to conserve water for such uses as human consumption, irrigation, flood …
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
DAM — I. noun ADJECTIVE ▪ hydroelectric VERB + DAM ▪ build , construct ▪ breach ▪ The ~ has been breached …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
CORE — I. noun ADJECTIVE ▪ hollow ▪ Each fibre/fiber has a hollow ~. ▪ dense , solid , strong ▪ copper …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
CORE — 1. < storage > Main memory or RAM . This term dates from the days of ferrite core memory ; …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
DAM — A structure of earth, rock, or concrete designed to form a basin and hold water back to make a pond, …
Environmental Engineering English vocabulary
CORE — Main storage or RAM. Dates from the days of ferrite-core memory; now archaic as techspeak most places outside IBM, but …
Jargon File English vocabulary
WALL — 1. сущ. 1) стена (тж. перен.) to build, erect, put up a wall ≈ поставить стену, воздвигнуть стену to climb, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
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CORE — I 1. сущ. 1) средняя внутренняя часть чего-л. а) центр core of the city ≈ центр города Syn : centre …
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WALL — wall.ogg _I 1. wɔ:l n 1. 1> стена; ограда garden walls - садовая ограда blank /dead/ wall - глухая стена …
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DAM — dam.ogg _I 1. dæm n 1. дамба, плотина, запруда; перемычка, мол earth dam - земляная плотина 2. запруженная /запружённая/ вода, …
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CORE — core.ogg _I 1. kɔ: n 1. сердцевина; ядро; внутренность the core of an apple - сердцевина яблока the core of …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
WALL — 1) стена; стенка; перегородка || обносить стеной; устраивать стенку; разделять стеной 2) устраивать заграждение 3) горн. забой 4) экран 5) …
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DAM
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CORE — 1) остов; каркас; ядро; сердцевина; сердечник; стержень 2) керн || отбирать керн; бурить с отбором керна 3) заполнитель ( в …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
WALL — 1) стена; стенка; перегородка || обносить стеной; устраивать стенку; разделять стеной 2) устраивать заграждение 3) горн. забой 4) экран 5) оболочка 6) доменная граница, доменная …
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DAM
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CORE — 1) остов; каркас; ядро; сердцевина; сердечник; стержень 2) керн || отбирать керн; бурить с отбором керна 3) заполнитель (в трёхслойной балке) 4) литейный …
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WALL — 1) бок 2) граничный 3) лава 4) настенный 5) преграда 6) пристенный 7) пристеночный 8) стена 9) стенка 10) стеновой 11) стенок • brick masonry wall — стена кирпичная ручной кладки cell wall …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
DAM — 1) плотина; дамба; перемычка; запруда 2) метал подпор, порог 3) сооружать дамбу 4) преграждать, возводить барьер • to dam up — подпирать плотиной - afterbay dam - …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
CORE — 1) дорн 2) горн. колонка породы, керн || отбирать керн 3) магнитопровод, магнитная система 4) сердечник 5) ядро, сердцевина 6) литейный сержень 7) жила (кабеля) 8) полигр. гильза, …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
WALL — wall сущ.1) а) стена; тж. перен. to build, erect, put up a wall — поставить стену, воздвигнуть стену to climb, …
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WALL — _I 1. wɔ:l n 1. 1> стена; ограда garden walls - садовая ограда blank /dead/ wall - глухая стена to …
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DAM — _I 1. dæm n 1. дамба, плотина, запруда; перемычка, мол earth dam - земляная плотина 2. запруженная /запружённая/ вода, запруда …
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