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| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A barrier constructed across a stream channel to impound water and/or trap sediment for the purpose of flow regulation, erosion control, production of energy, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A dam that divides a drainageway into two sections with reduced slopes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CHECK DAM |
| Specialty definitions using "CHECK DAM": beam dam ♦ log dam. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Brush check dam on gully, showing erosion control work on Coalins Project, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Erosion control, showing check dam and brush at the Pere Marquette recreational project, near Grafton, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gully erosion by check dam. Macon County, Alabama. Tuskegee Project. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Expression using "CHECK DAM": permeable check dam. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
check dam | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CHECK DAM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | barrage. (various references) | ||||
German | Sperre (ban, barrier, barring, blackout, blockade, boom, detent, elimination, embargo, fence, gate, interlock, lock, lock out, locking device, lockout, mental block, obstacle, roadblock). (various references) | ||||
Italian | traversa (arbor, beam, crossbar, crossbeam, crosspiece, crossroad, rail, side street, traverse), sbarramento (barrage, barrier, obstruction, Weir), diga (breakwater, causeway, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, levee, Weir), briglia (bridle, rein). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eckchay amday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-h-k-m" | |
-2 letters: cached, hacked. | |
-3 letters: ached, cache, caked, check, hacek, kheda, maced, mache, mecca. | |
-4 letters: aced, ache, acme, ahem, cade, cake, came, ceca, chad, cham, dace, dame, deck, dhak, each, hack, hade, haed, haem, hake, hame, head, heck, kame, mace, mach, mack, made, make, mead. | |
-5 letters: ace, cad, cam, dah, dak, dam, edh, had, hae, ham. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-h-k-m" | |
+2 letters: checkmated. | |
+3 letters: checkmarked. | |
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