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EARTH DAM

Specialty Definition: EARTH DAM

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Building & Civil Engineering

An embankment dam in which more than half of the total volume is formed of compacted fine grained material. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A dam constructed of earth material (such as gravel, broken weathered rock, sand, silt, or soil). It has a core of clay or other impervious material and a rock facing of riprap to protect against wave erosion. (references)

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

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Crosswords: EARTH DAM

Specialty definitions using "EARTH DAM": composite earth damDevil and his Damearth damFloodwallloaded filtermasonry-cum-earth dam, multiple-zoned earth dampuddled corerelief well, rock toe, Rockfill Dam, rock-fill dam, Rolled Filled Damslip circle method, Swedish slip circle methodzoned earth dam. (references)

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Expressions: EARTH DAM

Expressions using "EARTH DAM": composite earth dam zoned earth dam. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: EARTH DAM

Language Translations for "EARTH DAM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

jordfyldsdæmning (earthfill dam), jorddæmning (earthfill dam). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gronddam (earthfill dam), aarden dam (earthfill dam). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

maapato (earthfill dam). (various references)

   

French

  

barrage en terre (earthfill dam). (various references)

   

German

  

Erdschuettdamm (earthfill dam), Erddamm (earthfill dam). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χωμάτινο φράγμα (earthfill dam). (various references)

   

Italian

  

diga in terra (earthfill dam). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earthay amday

   

Portuguese

  

barragem em terra (earthfill dam). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

presa de tierra (earthfill dam), presa de escollera (earthfill dam). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

jorddamm (earthfill dam). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: EARTH DAM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-m-r-t"

-2 letters: dearth, dharma, dreamt, hamate, harmed, hatred, marted, ramate, thread.

-3 letters: aahed, ahead, arhat, armed, armet, damar, dater, death, derat, derma, drama, dream, earth, hared, harem, hated, hater, heard, heart, herma, madre, mated, mater, ramet, rated, rathe, reata, tamed, tamer, tared, tharm, therm, trade, tread.

-4 letters: ahem, amah, area, atma, dame, dare, dart, data.

-5 letters: aah.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-h-m-r-t"
 

+2 letters: headmaster, headstream.

 

+3 letters: camphorated, headmasters, headstreams, tetradrachm, warmhearted.

 

+4 letters: achromatized, multiwarhead, tetradrachms.

 

+5 letters: archimandrite, diathermanous, handcraftsmen, rhadamanthine.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EARTH DAM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 41 52 54 48      44 41 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01001000 00100000 01000100 01000001 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#72 &#32 &#68 &#65 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0041 0052 0054 0048      0044 0041 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39355254422383547

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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