dam | dam sözüniň manysy AjapSozluk.com

Iňlisçe-Türkmençe

dam

1. [söz] bent [Umumy]

2. [söz] bentlemek [Umumy]

3. [söz] böwet [Umumy]

4. [söz] gatla [Umumy]

Webster's English Dictionary

dam

n. [OE. dame mistress, lady; also, mother, dam. See Dame.]1. A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother. ()

Our sire and dam, now confined to horses, are a relic of this age (13th century) . . . .Dame is used of a hen; we now make a great difference between dame and dam. (T. L. K. Oliphant.)

The dam runs lowing up and down, Looking the way her harmless young one went. (Shak.)

2. A king or crowned piece in the game of draughts. ()

n. [Akin to OLG., D., & Dan. dam, G. & Sw. damm, Icel. dammr, and AS. fordemman to stop up, Goth. Fardammjan.]1. A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water. ()

2. (Metal.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace. ()

Dam plate (Blast Furnace), an iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it. ()

v. t. 1. To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up. ()

I'll have the current in this place dammed up. (Shak.)

A weight of earth that dams in the water. (Mortimer.)

2. To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain. ()

The strait pass was dammed With dead men hurt behind, and cowards. (Shak.)

To dam out, to keep out by means of a dam. ()