"dam" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

dam sustantivo

sustantivo + dam
Kolokacji: 46
Hoover Dam • beaver dam • gravity dam • Aswan Dam • Van Dam • ...
dam + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 19
dam project • dam site • dam wall • dam construction • Dam Buster • ...
dam + verbo
Kolokacji: 31
dam creates • dam breaks • dam provides • dam impounds • dam serves • ...
verbo + dam
Kolokacji: 6
dam is constructed • dam is built • dam is completed • dam is operated • dam is rebuilt • ...
adjetivo + dam
Kolokacji: 36
hydroelectric dam • large dam • small dam • earthen dam • new dam • concrete dam • ...
(8) temporary, makeshift
Kolokacji: 2
1. temporary dam = tymczasowa tama temporary dam
2. makeshift dam = prowizoryczna tama makeshift dam
  • A makeshift dental dam can be made out of a condom or a latex or nitrile glove.
  • Our own children, aged 5, 8 and 12, remembering this stream from a previous trip, jumped in and were soon skimming stones and building makeshift dams.
  • The sundevil column slowed, still almost a kay below my makeshift dam, where small waves rolled back and forth and where steam was rising now almost like a fog.
  • The detritus ended up building a makeshift dam that diverted the river water onto the grounds.
  • This involved placing makeshift wooden dams in the ink fountain and using them to feed different colored inks simultaneously into the fountain, which produced a rainbow effect which was a bit difficult to read but visually arresting.
  • Loop's Misery Diminishing The drainage follows days of shoring up makeshift dams at several points along the tunnel system.
  • He allowed large budget gaps to develop, closed them with stopgap measures and then watched them expand again, like floodwaters overflowing a makeshift dam.
  • The voluntary evacuation was not met with widespread co-operation, as many residents stayed to battle the flood by building makeshift dams.
  • The night before the battle, he set a trap for Long by building a makeshift dam with sandbags to lower the water level in the Wei river.
preposición + dam
Kolokacji: 13
with dams • from the dam • of the dam • to the dam • on the dam • ...

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