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levee    音标拼音: [l'ɛvi]
n. 早朝,大堤
vt. 为…筑堤

早朝,大堤为…筑堤

levee
n 1: a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal
court)
2: a pier that provides a landing place on a river
3: an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from
overflowing

Levee \Lev"ee\ (l[e^]v"[-e]; often l[e^]v*[=e]" in U. S.), n.
[F. lever, fr. lever to raise, se lever to rise. See {Lever},
n.]
1. The act of rising. " The sun's levee." --Gray.
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2. A morning assembly or reception of visitors, -- in
distinction from a {soir['e]e}, or evening assembly; a
{matin['e]e}; hence, also, any general or somewhat
miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime
or evening; as, the president's levee.
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Note: In England a ceremonious day reception, when attended
by both ladies and gentlemen, is called a
{drawing-room}.
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Levee \Lev"ee\, v. t.
To attend the levee or levees of.
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He levees all the great. --Young.
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Levee \Lev"ee\, n. [F. lev['e]e, fr. lever to raise. See
{Lever}, and cf. {Levy}.]
An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the
Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river. [U. S.]
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Levee \Lev"ee\, v. t.
To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a
river. [U. S.]
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112 Moby Thesaurus words for "levee":
affair, arch dam, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home,
backstop, ball, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier,
bear-trap dam, beaver dam, berth, boom, brawl, breakwater,
breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, caucus,
cofferdam, colloquium, commission, committee, conclave, concourse,
congregation, congress, conventicle, convention, convocation,
council, dam, dance, date, defense, diet, dike, ditch, dock,
earthwork, eisteddfod, embankment, fence, festivity, fete,
forgathering, forum, gate, gathering, get-together, gravity dam,
groin, housewarming, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty,
leaping weir, logjam, matinee, meet, meeting, milldam, moat, mole,
mound, panel, parapet, party, plenum, portcullis, prom, quay,
quorum, rally, rampart, reception, rendezvous, reunion, roadblock,
rock-fill dam, salon, seance, seawall, session, shindig,
shutter dam, sit-in, sitting, slip, sociable, social,
social affair, social gathering, soiree, stews, stone wall,
symposium, synod, tenderloin, turnout, wake, wall, weir,
wicket dam, work


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  • National Levee Database - United States Army
    Levees are commonly built alongside rivers or streams – which can be large or quite small These levees are typically designed to a certain size and shape to handle possible flooding within a
  • Levee - Wikipedia
    Levees can be mainly found along the sea, where dunes are not strong enough, along rivers for protection against high floods, along lakes or along polders Furthermore, levees have been built for the purpose of impoldering, or as a boundary for an inundation area
  • What is a levee? - HowStuffWorks
    One of the oldest weapons they've wielded against the rivers and oceans is the levee, also known as a dike A levee is simply a man-made embankment built to keep a river from overflowing its banks or to prevent ocean waves from washing into undesired areas
  • LEVEE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    The meaning of LEVEE is a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed How to use levee in a sentence
  • What Is a Levee and How Does It Work? - Biology Insights
    A levee is an engineered structure designed to manage the flow of water and protect adjacent land from inundation These structures are elongated embankments, typically constructed from compacted earth, that run parallel to a waterway
  • Levee | Civil Engineering Benefits | Britannica
    levee, any low ridge or earthen embankment built along the edges of a stream or river channel to prevent flooding of the adjacent land Artificial levees are typically needed to control the flow of rivers meandering through broad, flat floodplains
  • What Is A Levee? - FEMA. gov
    Levees are designed to reduce flood risk from flooding events; however, they do not eliminate the risk entirely It is always possible that a flood will exceed the capacity of a levee, no matter how well the structure is built
  • Levee - National Geographic Society
    A levee is a natural or artificial wall that blocks water from going where we don’t want it to go Levees may be used to increase available land for habitation or divert a body of water so the fertile soil of a river or seabed may be used for agriculture
  • WHAT IS A LEVEE? - Levee Safety
    Levees are embankments whose primary purpose is to furnish flood protection from seasonal high water so they are subject to water loading for only few days or weeks during the year Under normal conditions, levees are not subject to the action of waves and currents
  • Little Rock District USACE continues Village Creek levee . . . - DVIDS
    Little Rock District, U S Army Corps of Engineers is working in conjunction with the Tennessee Valley Authority are performing emergency levee stabilization work on the Village Creek Levee near





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