CUTOFF WALL (OF A DAM)

Meaning of CUTOFF WALL (OF A DAM) in English

A wall of impervious material (e.g., concrete, asphaltic concrete, steel sheet piling) built into the foundation of a dam to reduce or prevent seepage under the dam.

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CUTOFF — noun Date: 1741 the act or action of cutting off, 2. the new and relatively short channel formed when a …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
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
CUTOFF — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun ( -s ) Etymology: cut off 1. : the action or act of cutting off: a. : …
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 …
Английский словарь Webster
WALL
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
CUTOFF — /kut"awf', -of'/ , n. 1. an act or instance of cutting off. 2. something that cuts off. 3. a road, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CUTOFF — n. act of cutting off; part that branches off from another (as in a road or stream); cutoff switch (Electricity); …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
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 …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CUTOFF — noun Date: 1741 1. : the act or action of cutting off 2. a. : the new and relatively short …
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, …
Webster English vocab
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
CUTOFF — [cut.off] n (1741) 1: the act or action of cutting off 2. a: the new and relatively short channel formed …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
DAM — barrier built across a stream, river, or estuary to confine and check the flow of water for such uses as …
Britannica English vocabulary
CUTOFF — cutoff BrE AmE ˈkʌt ɒf -ɔːf AmE \ ˈkʌt̬ ɔːf -ɑːf ▷ cutoff|s s
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
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
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
CUTOFF — ˈcut-off BrE AmE , cut‧off /ˈkʌtɒf $ -ɒːf/ noun 1 . [countable usually singular] a limit or level at which …
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
WALL — n. & v. --n. 1. a a continuous and usu. vertical structure of usu. brick or stone, having little width …
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
CUTOFF — see cut-off
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CUTOFF — see cut-off
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
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
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
CUTOFF — (STOP) [noun] [C] - the act of stopping the supply of somethingThe US has announced a cutoff of military aid …
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 …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CUTOFF — Synonyms and related words : air line, arrest, beeline, bell, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, break …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
CUTOFF — n. Function: noun Synonyms: SHORTCUT
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
CUTOFF — noun Synonyms: shortcut
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
DAM — I. noun ADJECTIVE ▪ hydroelectric VERB + DAM ▪ build , construct ▪ breach ▪ The ~ has been breached …
Oxford Collocations 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
CUTOFF — specifies the maximum pair separation distance as a percentage of the length of the diagonal of the bounding rectangle of …
Sean Woo's Finance, GIS and Real Estate English Glossary
CUTOFF — The seat immediately to the right of the dealer button. In home games where the player on the button actually …
Poker English Dictionary
WALL — 1. сущ. 1) стена (тж. перен.) to build, erect, put up a wall ≈ поставить стену, воздвигнуть стену to climb, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
DAM
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CUTOFF — 1) отсечка; запирание; закрывание; срез 2) останов ∙ tape breakage cutoff Сокращение cutoff выключение ~ вчт. запирание ~ конец ~ …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CUTOFF — Отсечка
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
WALL — wall.ogg _I 1. wɔ:l n 1. 1> стена; ограда garden walls - садовая ограда blank /dead/ wall - глухая стена …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
DAM — dam.ogg _I 1. dæm n 1. дамба, плотина, запруда; перемычка, мол earth dam - земляная плотина 2. запруженная /запружённая/ вода, …
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) …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
DAM
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
CUTOFF — 1) горн. диагональный штрек; отрезная выработка 2) обводной канал; соединительный канал 3) дноуглубительная прорезь 4) гидр. противофильтрационная завеса 5) мех. …
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 …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
DAM
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
CUTOFF — 1) горн. диагональный штрек; отрезная выработка 2) обводной канал; соединительный канал 3) дноуглубительная прорезь 4) гидр. противофильтрационная завеса 5) мех. усечение (поверхности разрушения) 6) обход, …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
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
CUTOFF — 1) выключение 2) запирание 3) отсечка 4) геол. высохшая река; слепой рукав реки 5) геол. спрямление русла реки 6) горн. диагональный штрек • to drive transistor to …
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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