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Multilingual Technical Dictionary (MTD)
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Term No.Term Name/Term DescriptionAction
1484
Groyne, Groin, Bankhead, Spur, Spur dike, Transverse dike, Jetty
1 - A structure built from the bank of a river in a direction transverse to the current. The groynes may be permeable, semi-permeable or impermeable. 2 - See 3479 and 8028......
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1513
Closing dike
A structure built across the branch channel of a river in order to stop or reduce the flow entering that channel or to separate a dead branch from the main channel......
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1524
Retired embankment
An embankment built at a distance from the river edge behind an existing embankment as a second line of defence. (illustrated)......
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1557
Pile dike
A type of permeable structure for the protection of banks against caving, consists of a cluster of piles driven into the river and braced and lashed together......
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2356
Earth dam, or Embankment dam
A barrier made of earth, clay, sand or sand and gravel, or a combination of these or of the earth and rock.
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5316
Dyke, Dike, Embankment, or Levee (USA)
A bank that protects land from inundation by flood waters.
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5815
Earth (dike)-coffer dam, or Earthfill coffer dam
A type of water coffer dam built entirely with earth materials protected by a revetment or by sand bags.
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5817
Rockfill coffer dam, or Rock dike coffer dam
A water coffer dam built of rockfill and sealed on water side by some impervious material.
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6476
Dike embankment
An embankment of earth for restraining the waters of a river.
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6568
Soil-saving dike
An earth dike constructed on the lower end of an irrigated field, usually with an adjustable outlet, built for the purpose of holding sediment on the field......
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8006
Dyke failure, dike breach
Failure of natural or artificial protective walls on watercourses, mostly as a result of overtopping or saturation, but a significant role can also be played by subsurface erosion, ageing, tree roots, and hoof and burrowing damage caused by animals......
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8007
Embankment
1 - Fill material, usually earth or rock, placed with sloping sides and usually with length greater than height. All dams are types of embankments. 2 - A man-made earth structure constructed for the purpose of impounding water. .....
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8013
Flood levee, Levee, Main Levee, Embankment, Stop bank, Dyke, Dike, Summer dike, Confinement dike, Ring dike, or Bund
1 - An artificial trapezoidal earthwork structure built along a river for the purpose of protecting adjacent land or human settlements from inundation by flood waters. The most ancient, most widespread method of flood protection. Flood levees are linear structures along a river which have the purpose of confining waters spilling from the mean-water.....
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8022
Retired embankment
An embankment built at a distance from the river edge behind the existing embankment as a second line of defence. Note : The existing embankment is sometimes called primary line of defence......
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8023
Ring dikes
They protect from inundation the inhabited areas, settlements, industrial plants, etc., in the floodplain or between river channels......
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8025
Scour-holes behind the dike
Deep holes developed during earlier breaches of the dike. Owing to the flow of water, the subsoil is eroded locally. Usually, after the high water, a new dike is constructed on the riverside around the scour-hole or occasionally, on the polderside of the scour-hole......
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8028
Spur, Spur dike, Groyne, or Transverse dike
1-A structure of stone, rock, timber, brushwood, pile, earth, or other materials, built from the bank of a stream traversing to the current for training the flow of water, for bank protection, for fixing a navigable channel or for trapping bedload to build up new river banks. The spur may be permeable, semi-impermeable or impermeable. 2 - See also .....
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8029
Summer dikes, River side bunds, or Submersible dikes
Low embankment along a river or coastal water aiming at flood protection against low and frequent (flood) water levels and/or at flood protection during the early stages of a flood (resulting in delayed flooding). These are constructed in the flood bed, offering protection against more frequent minor floods to cultivated lands in the flood bed. It .....
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8030
Submersible embankments (levee, dyke, dike)
Embankments along rivers that have been designed in such a way that their overtopping does not produce significant damage. Submersible embankments are constructed in the Southeastern Asian monsoon zones to check early monsoon floods so that one more crop can be grown and the negative side-effects of full flood protection can be avoided......
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8032
Water-retaining side, Wet side, or Outer side of the dike
The river side of the dike, facing the river.
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8090
Sandbag dike
Encircling a building, facility or settlement with sandbags.
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