COMPOUND WALL

  

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COMPOUND WALL

Specialty Definition: COMPOUND WALL

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Earthen dike or concrete wall built around an oil tank or tanks to contain the oil in the event of tank ruptures or fire(1). Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COMPOUND WALL

Language Translations for "COMPOUND WALL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

brygge (bund, bund wall, fire wall, tank dike, to brew), brandvæg (bund, bund wall, fire wall, tank dike). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

dam (dam, dame, king, lady, queen), brandwal (bund, bund wall, fire wall, tank dike), brandmuur (bund, bund wall, fire wall, party wall, tank dike). (various references)

   

French

  

cloison pare-feu, mur de protection, mur coupe-feu. (various references)

   

German

  

Tankwall (bund, bund wall, fire wall, tank dike), Tankumwallung (bund, bund wall, fire wall, tank dike). (various references)

   

Italian

  

bacino di contenimento (bund, bund wall, dike, fire wall, impounding basin, retention pond, tank dike). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ompoundcay allway

   

Spanish

  

pared cortafuego (bund, bund wall, fire wall, tank dike), pared contra incendios (bund, bund wall, fire wall, tank dike), muro cortafuego (bund, bund wall, fire wall, tank dike). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COMPOUND WALL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-l-l-m-n-o-o-p-u-w"

-3 letters: clampdown.

-4 letters: columnal, compound, plowland.

-5 letters: lampoon, lowland, plowman, poundal, pullman, unclamp, wadmoll, woodman, woolman.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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