Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet EMBANKMENT

Definition av EMBANKMENT

1. (väg- och vattenbyggnad) vall; avlång upphöjning som bär en väg eller järnväg

Exempel på hur du använder EMBANKMENT i en mening

• Dartmouth Dam is a large rock-fill embankment dam with an uncontrolled chute spillway across the Mitta Mitta, Gibbo and Dart rivers, the Morass Creek and a number of small tributaries.
• The portion west of Plymouth Avenue was routed underground through a series of box culverts, while much of the eastern section "mill pond" was filled in for the highway embankment.
• Palisade was named by an official of the Soo Line Railroad for the high embankment on either side of the Mississippi River.
• One secretary was injured attempting to escape over an embankment wall outside the office building, and the assistant to the superintendent was non-fatally wounded in the right leg after being shot by the assailant in the lobby of the district office.
• Along the embankment between Leasowe and Moreton are the remains of fortifications built during the Second World War.
• The dam differs from the Howden Reservoir and Derwent Reservoir in that it is a clay-cored earth embankment and not a solid masonry dam.
• Initially, Chechulin proposed constructing the building on Taganka Square, which rises above a significant part of the city, as the site on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment was inconvenient due to nearby buildings; however, because of the good view alongside the high bank of the Moskva River, the current location was chosen instead.
• According to the Etymological dictionary of the Ukrainian language the word "kurhan" is borrowed directly from the "Polovtsian" language (Kipchak, part of the Turkic languages), and means: fortress, embankment, high grave.
• The first mile of the line out of Porthmadog runs atop an embankment called the Cob, which is the dyke of the polder known as Traeth Mawr.
• The pond became one of the first SSSIs in Hampshire in 1951, and under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, duly re-registered, but to omit the portion north of the embankment.
• By the 14th century, much of the Walland and Denge Marshes had been reclaimed by "innings", the process of throwing up an embankment around the sea-marsh and using the low-tide to let it run dry by means of one-way drains set into the new seawall, running off into a network of dykes called locally "sewers".
• The modern embankment, inaugurated in 1994, displays an assortment of Karelian granites and marbles.
• There were three separate bypass schemes – the Improvement from Sandy to the junction with A428 (Tempsford and Tempsford Bridge Diversions, began December 1957, finished around 1960), Provision of second carriageway (widening) through Girtford (began 2 January 1961, finished around October 1962), and Biggleswade by-pass to Girtford (Girtford Diversion, which opened on 6 August 1961 which included pulverised fuel ash as an embankment infill material).
• Dotaku ritual objects and kofun burial mounds were built, and the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki record that Emperor Nintoku ordered the construction of an embankment to control repeated flooding of the Yodo River, the early known of such projects in Japan.

Förberedelsen av sidan tog: 89,61 ms.