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Encyclopedia > Dam (disambiguation)

The words dam and damn have very different meanings, but they are sometimes confused in spelling, particularly by foreigners.

  • A dam is a wall or other device to restrain water or some other liquid.
  • To dam (verb) means to restrain liquid with a dam. It forms dammed etc.
  • To damn means for God to punish someone, or use of this word for profane language. It forms damned etc.
  • See Damnation (album) for the album by the Swedish band Opeth.
  • See sire for use of dam to mean a female animal.
  • dam is sometimes used as an abbreviation for dekametre.
  • dAmn is deviantART's online chat system.

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Dam Summary (6773 words)
A diversionary dam is a structure designed to divert all or a portion of the flow of a river from its natural course.
Timber dams were widely used in the early part of the industrial revolution and in frontier areas due to ease and speed of construction.
A steel dam is a type of dam briefly experimented with in around the turn of the 19th-20th century which uses steel plating (at an angle) and load bearing beams as the structure.
Dam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3080 words)
A diversionary dam is a structure designed to divert all or a portion of the flow of a river from its natural course.
Oroville Dam is an example of an earth dam, and is the tallest dam in the United States.
A steel dam is a type of dam briefly experimented with in around the turn of the 19th-20th century which uses steel plating (at an angle) and load bearing beams as the structure.
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