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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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  • 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
  • Civil Works Levee Safety Program - United States Army Corps of Engineers
    Levees are one of many measures used throughout the nation to address flooding There are about 6,500 levees across the United States that help keep water away from communities, business,
  • Flood Frequently Asked Questions - Department Of Water Resources
    A levee is a man-made structure (usually an earthen embankment) designed and constructed in accordance with sound engineering practices to contain, control, or divert the flow of water so as to provide protection from flooding for flows up to a certain amount
  • 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? - 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 COMPONENTS – Levee Safety
    Basically, levees have a waterside and a landside slope and a crest The levee should be high enough to provide the required protection level plus an additional freeboard allowance A levee is generally designed for a particular estimated return period water level
  • Boils along San Joaquin River levee cause community concern
    Concerns about flooding all along the San Joaquin River won't end anytime soon, and that has communities keeping a close eye on the levee that sits between them and the river
  • What is a levee exactly, who owns them and how do they work . . .
    According to the National Flood Insurance Program, a levee is a “a man-made structure” used “to contain, control, or divert the flow of water so as to reduce risk from temporary flooding ”
  • 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
  • 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





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