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Definitions: Revetment |
RevetmentNoun1. A barrier against explosives. 2. A facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "revetment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | A wall of concrete, earth, sandbags, or the like installed for protection, as against the blast of exploding fuel during a rocket abort. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | Protective linings or coatings for channels, below structures and streambanks, either stone, concrete or wire-stone commonly. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | A framework supporting the interior slope of the parapet, constructed from logs, fence rails, wicker work, sand bags, gabions, sod, stone, or other materials. (references) |
Mining | A. A facing, sheathing, or retaining wall of masonry or other materials for protecting a mass or bank of earth, etc., as in fortifications and riverbanks. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: RevetmentSynonyms: revetement (n), stone facing (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Defense | Safeguard; (safety); balistraria; bunker, screen; (shelter); camouflage; (concealment); fortification; munition, muniment; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment; kila; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field-work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation; paling; (inclosure); palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado, laager, sangar; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise; abatis, abattis, abbatis; vallum, circumvallation, battlement, rampart, scarp; escarp, counter-scarp; glacis, casemate; vallation, vanfos. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Revetment |
| English words defined with "revetment": Counterfort. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "revetment": anchor log, anchored tree revetment ♦ Ditch-in-front, ditch-in-rear, ditch both sides ♦ log crib construction ♦ scour protection. (references) |
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 | The shoreline at the University of Maryland Horn Point Laboratory is a combination of sandy beach and rock revetment.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Rock revetment is used along one part of Wye Island to prevent further erosion.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | The rock revetment shoreline of the restored area of East Timbalier Island.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The rock revetment placed at East Timbalier Island helps to prevent erosion while the marsh accretes.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | The rock revetment was placed to prevent erosion at the restoration site.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Sinking the mat, revetment work on the Missouri River, Cambridge, Mo.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Revetment work on the Missouri River, paving, Cambridge, Mo.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Revetment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Revetment" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "revetment": anchored tree revetment ♦ bank revetment. 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 |
concrete dycel fully interlocking precast revetment system | 6 |
ankalok concrete interlocking precast revetment | 6 |
basalton column concrete dyke revetment | 6 |
revetment | 5 |
concrete revetment | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "revetment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veshje me gurë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | облицовка (coat, facing, lining, onlay, overlay, paneling, panelling, tiling, veneer), подпорна стена. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 駁岸 (a low stone wall built along the water's edge to protect an embankment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | daeklag (facing), afskaermningsvold. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | geluidkerende wal (noise mound, noise protection embankment), bekleeding (facing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | revêtement maçonné, revêtement, radier, pavage artificiel, merlonnage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verkleidung (boarding, casing, covering, disguise, disguising, dressing up, facing, fancy dress, lining, panel, paneling, sheeting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προτείχισμα κατωφερούσ έδαφουσ, επένδυση (casing, coating, investment, plating), επικάλυψη (overlap, sheathing, topping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | דפון (plating, screening, walling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | burkolás (canning, coating, envelope, shielding, wainscoting), földből emelt védőtorlasz, földből emelt barikád, borítás (encasement, jacket, overlay, shroud, skin of aircraft, veneer, wainscoting, wrap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rivestimento protettivo (guard, protecting cover, protective cover), rivestimento artificiale (apron, paving), rivestimento (casing, coating, cover, covering, encasement, facing, integument, jacket, lag, lining, skin), selciatura (apron, paving, sett paving), pavimentazione artificiale (apron, paving), merlatura, lastricatura (apron, base-course metaling, base-course metalling, bottoming, laying base-course, paving, pitching, soleing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | boalley marrey (breakwater, mole, seawall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evetmentray revestimento (boarding, case, casing, clothing, coat, coating, covering, encaustic, facing, finish, jacket, lines, lining, sheath, slipover). (various references) облицовка (casing, covering, facing, lining). (various references) oplata (planking, sheeting, shirt, skin), obloga (pledget). (various references) revestimiento con mamposteria (apron, paving), revestimiento (coating, facing, lagging, lining, plate, sheathing, shell), terraplenes protectores, pedraplén (apron, paving), "radier". (various references) beklädnad (boarding, clothes, clothing, covering, jacket, lining). (various references) patlayıcılardan korunma barikatı, kaplama (casing, covering, cowl, encrustation, facing, fairing, incrustation, lining, overgrowth, overlap, overlay, plated, plating, sheath, sheathing, skin, veneering). (various references) обшивка (casing, clothing, covering, encasement, lagging, lath, overcast, sheathing, welting), облицювання (basque, casing, chemise, covering, facing, lining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "revetment": revetments. (additional references) | |
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"Revetment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gravement, refitment, reveitment, reventment. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "revetment" (pronounced 'Re*vet"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amassment, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-m-n-r-t-t-v" | |
-3 letters: entree, eterne, evener, meeter, netter, remeet, retene, teemer, teener, teeter, tenter, terete, trevet, veneer, venter. | |
-4 letters: emeer, enter, event, evert, meter, metre, nerve, never, reeve, remet, rente, retem, revet, tenet, terne, treen. | |
-5 letters: erne, even, ever, meet, mere, mete, neem, nett, neve, rent, rete, teem, teen, tent, term, tern, tree, tret, veer, vent. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-m-n-r-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: revetments. | |
+3 letters: fermentative, reinvestment. | |
+4 letters: advertisement, advertizement, determinative, overstatement, overtreatment, reinvestments. | |
+5 letters: advertisements, advertizements, determinatives, divertissement, intervalometer, overinvestment, overstatements, overtreatments. | |
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