Dam

[dæm]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock.

(noun.) a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea.

(verb.) obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; 'dam the gorges of the Yangtse River'.

手打:路德维格--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.

(n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

手打:威尔

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Mother (of a beast), female parent.

汉弗莱手打

解釋/意思:

n. a mother applied to quadrupeds.

n. an embankment to restrain water: the water thus confined.—v.t. to keep back water by a bank:—pr.p. dam′ming; pa.p. dammed.

編輯:珀西