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Definition of levees in English Turkish dictionary
- levee
- su seti
Su seti seli geri tuttu.
-The levee kept the floodwater back.
- levee
- set
Su seti seli geri tuttu.
-The levee kept the floodwater back.
- levee
- rıhtım
- levee
- kabul merasimi
- levee
- sedde
- levee
- Resmî kabul, kabul töreni
- levee
- kabul/set
- levee
- {i} nehir taşmasına karşı set
- levee
- büyük şahsiyetlerin sabahleyin misafir
- levee
- {i} taşmayı önleyen set
- levee
- nehir kenannda su taşmasına engel olacak set
- levee
- yalnız erkeklerin hazır bulunduğu saray kabul merasimi
- levee
- bilhassa cumhurbaşkanının umumi kabul resmi
- levee
- {i} kabul töreni
- levee
- (Askeri) SET: Tabii veya insan eliyle yapılmış olan ve nehirlerin taşmasına mani olan nehir kenarı setleri
- levee
- set gibi yüksek nehir kenarı
- levee
- {i} resmi kabul
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Definition of levees in English English dictionary
- plural of levee
- levee
- An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi
- levee
- A pier or other landing place on a river
- levee
- The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest
The sturdy hind now attends the levee of his fellow-labourer the ox.
- levee
- A reception of visitors held after getting up
- levee
- A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders
- levee
- an embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow
- levee
- {n} a crowd of attendants, visit, lady's toilet
- leve
- Called also leucophanite
- leve
- To believe
- leve
- A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness,with viscid juices and cold sweats
- leve
- Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin
- leve
- A mineral of a greenish yellow color; it is a silicate of glucina, lime, and soda with fluorine
- leve
- A colorless substance isomeric with chlorophyll, contained in parts of plants capable of becoming green
- leve
- Dear
- leve
- in exclamations or prayers followed by a dependent clause
- leve
- The state of an albino, or of a white child of black parents
- leve
- Same as 3d & 4th Leave
- leve
- To grant; used esp
- leve
- To live
- leve
- Having white or silvery foliage
- leve
- One of certain very
- levee
- {i} embankment built along a river to prevent flooding; raised edge around an irrigated field; pier; formal reception (such as held by royalty)
- levee
- A dike or embankment that protects land from floods
- levee
- To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river
- levee
- {f} build a dike, create an embankment along a river to prevent flooding; create a raised edge around an irrigated field (Agriculture)
- levee
- Curved earthen mounds of sediments that act as barriers between flood waters and surrounding floodplain areas
- levee
- The steep bank of a river, or border of an irrigated field
- levee
- A ridge of sediment deposited alongside a stream as floodwaters rising out of the channel lose energy and deposit their coarser load
- levee
- A mineral of a greenish yellow color; it is a silicate of glucina, lime, and soda with fluorine
- levee
- The state of an albino, or of a white child of black parents
- levee
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- levee
- Called also leucophanite
- levee
- embankment along a river to prevent flooding, as in : The townspeople felt much safer once the levee was completed
- levee
- (1) An embankment to prevent inundation (2) (SMP) A large dike or embankment, often having an access road along the top, which is designed as part of a system to protect land from floods
- levee
- To attend the levee or levees of
- levee
- An embankment built to keep a river from overflowing; a landing place on the river
- levee
- A dike used for flood protection
- levee
- Having white or silvery foliage
- levee
- A natural or man-made earthen obstruction along the edge of a stream, lake, or river Usually used to restrain the flow of water out of a river bank
- levee
- An embankment, continuous dike or ridge
- levee
- A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness,with viscid juices and cold sweats
- levee
- An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river
- levee
- an embankment built to prevent flooding of low-lying land
- levee
- a high earth ridge built to keep nearby land from flooding (same as dike)
- levee
- An outward sloping raised area on each side of a lava channel Analogous to a river levee, it is built up by successive lava layers whenever the channel overflows
- levee
- Artificial bank confining a stream channel or limiting adjacent areas subject to flooding; an embankment bordering a submarine canyon or channel, usually occurring along the outer edge of a curve
- levee
- A protective barrier built along the banks of a stream to prevent flooding See also natural levee
- levee
- A morning assembly or reception of visitors, in distinction from a soirée, or evening assembly; a matinée; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee
- levee
- The act of rising
- levee
- A natural or man-made feature of the landscape that restricts movement of water into or through an area
- levee
- A long, narrow embankment usually built to protect land from flooding If built of concrete or masonary the structure is usually referred to as a flood wall Levees and floodwalls confine streamflow within a specified area to prevent flooding The term "dike" is used to describe an embankment that blocks an area on a reservoir or lake rim that is lower than the top of the dam
- levee
- One of certain very
- levee
- A man-made embankment that controls or confines water
- levee
- a special wall built to stop a river flooding (levée, from lever )
- levee
- Ridge of coarse deposits found alongside the stream channels and elevated above the floodplain Forms from the deposition of sediment during floods
- levee
- Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin
- levee
- A formal reception, especially one given by royalty (originally, upon rising from bed)
- levee
- A colorless substance isomeric with chlorophyll, contained in parts of plants capable of becoming green
- levee
- An embankment to confine or control water A dike
- levee
- A berm-like or embankment structure that acts as a barrier to flood waters
- levee
- A man-made structure, usually an earthen embankment often reinforced with soil cement, that is designed to contain or divert the flow of water
- levee
- a natural or manmade earthen barrier along the edge of a stream, lake, or river Land alongside rivers can be protected from flooding by levees
- levee
- a bank or wall built to keep floodwaters away; or a bank that occurs naturally because of silt being deposited during floods
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levees
Turkish pronunciation
levizPronunciation
/ˈlevēz/ /ˈlɛviːz/
Etymology
[ 'le-vE; l&-'vE, -'vA ] (noun.) 1672. French lever, from Middle French, act of arising, from lever to rise.Resimler
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