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Multilingual Technical Dictionary (MTD)
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Term No.Term Name/Term DescriptionAction
1465
Island
Piece of land surrounded by flowing water in the stream or channel itself.
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1521
Pitched island
An earthen embankment in the shape of an island with protected slopes and toes, constructed in the bed of the river (illustrated)......
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1586
Land
The solid part of the earth considered in its entirety. A country or district, large or small, especially considered as a place of human habitation with reference to its soil use, value, conditions, social aspects, etc......
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1991
Waterlogged low land
Low land affected by waterlogging.
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1992
Inundated low land
Low land covered with or subject to overflows of water, such as from floods or tides.
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2006
Tide land
Land which is inundated during flood tide.
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2097
Heathland
Shallow acid peat land.
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2124
Custard-apple land
A local name for substantial land on the southern and eastern shores of Lake Okeechobee in Florida.
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2199
Land reclamation
The process of making land capable of more intensive use by changing its general character, as by drainage of wet lands; irrigation of arid or semi‑arid lands; or recovery of submerged lands from seas, lakes, and rivers......
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3208
Canal land width, or Right-of-way
The width of land occupied by or acquired for a channel section including its inside berms, banks, outside borrow-pits, if any, spoil banks, if any. In Australia, this is termed `reserve`, if the land is acquired by the authority, and `easement`, if the land remains the property of the owner, but the permission to use it for carrying water has been.....
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3231
Cement concrete lining, or Portland cement concrete lining
A type of rigid, smooth lining made of a mixture of Portland cement and graded sand and either gravel or crushed stone. The lining may or may not be reinforced......
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3232
Portland cement mortar lining
A type of rigid, smooth lining made of a mixture of Portland cement and sand.
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3889
Landmark fishway
A type of pool and jet fishway formed by making the baffles perpendicular to the bottom, but oblique to the axis, and by placing a simple jet deflector close to the opening left by the baffles. Named after its designer Landmark (Norway) (illustrated)......
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3919
Landing place
A horizontal platform near the water surface level where the cattle or traffic make a landing when unloaded out of the canal (illustrated)......
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3991
Land ownership
Individual (or group) ownership of land, with rights to sell.  
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3993
Land tenure
Arrangement or right that allows a person or a community to use specific pieces of land and associated resources (e.g. water, trees, etc.) in a certain period of time and for particular purposes. .....
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4112
Floodplain, or Flood Land
1 - The portion of the landscape inundated by a flood. The extent of the floodplain is often defined by a particular frequency flood : the 100-year floodplain is the area inundated by a flood with an average return period between events of 100 years, or an annual probability of occurrence of 0.01 (illustrated). 2 - The flood-prone areas adjacent to.....
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4122
Washland, or Floodplain
1 -An embanked, low-lying land bordering a river or estuary, usually part of the natural floodplain, over which floodwaters are allowed to flow periodically in order to control high water level in the river. 2 - Also see 4112......
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4123
Washland storage, or Floodplain storage
The construction of dykes on a floodplain for the storage of flood water, in order to reduce flooding downstream. Schemes may be passive (they flood when flow exceeds a certain level without intervention) or active (water may enter the storage area after, for example, sluices are opened)......
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4137
Sacrosanct land
Land unlikely to yield a tangible benefit from flood alleviation, such as common land, nature reserves, recreation areas......
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4676
Land forming
1 - Modification of a field surface by mechanical means so as to improve irrigation or drainage. Various types of land forming include land grading, land leveling, or land smoothing, depending on slope and degree of irregularity of the finished field surface. Land forming design considerations include minimizing the volume of cuts and fills and mai.....
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4677
Rolling land
Land having gradual, rounded undulations on its surface.
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4678
Upland
Terrain above the lowlands of river valleys.
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4683
Logged-off land
Land cleared of trees but from that stumps are yet to be removed.
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4702
Corrugator, or Land corrugator
An implement for preparing corrugations in corrugation irrigation.
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