German-English translations for damm

• causeway
• dam
  Our Oosterschelde dam costs eight billion guilders. Unser Oosterschelde-Damm kostete acht Milliarden Gulden.
  If the dam fails to hold, this will cause a real disaster. Falls der Damm bricht, wird es zu einer echten Katastrophe kommen.
  In 1976, for example, 26 000 people died when a dam broke in China. 1976 zum Beispiel sind bei einem Dammbruch in China 26 000 Menschen gestorben.
• embankment
• bank
  blood bank; sperm bank; data bank
  If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank
  He banked with Barclays
• barrier
• basin
• bed
  My cat often sleeps on my bed.I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep
  When camping, he usually makes a bed for the night from hay and a blanket
  Go to bed! I had breakfast in bed this morning
• bund
  The most important of these [secondary containment] provisions are bunds, which are enclosures capable of holding liquids that may escape from the vessels and pipes within the bund wall. — Second progress report on the Buncefield investigation [https://web.archive.org/web/20060414122438/http://www.buncefieldinvestigation.gov.uk/reports/report2.pdf]
  Plant room floors are generally bunded and/or waterproofed to contain any leaks or spillages of liquids and fluids from faulty tanks, plant or pipe work. [http://www.riw.co.uk/applications/plant_room.htm RIW Ltd. Waterproofing Products]
• carriageway
• corduroy road
• jetty
• levee
  to levee a river
• log road
• perineum
• pond
  I wonder how they do this on the other side of the pond
  I havent been back home across the pond in twenty years
• reservoir
• roadway
• seawall
• wall
  The town wall was surrounded by a moat
  The wind blew against the walls of the tent
  A wall of police officers met the protesters before they reached the capitol steps
• weir

Synonyms

• Wehr

Related words

• gottverdammt
• Morgendämmerung
• dämmrig
• dämmen
• verdammt
• Abenddämmerung
• gedämmt
• verdammen
• dämmerig