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levee    音標拼音: [l'ɛvi]
n. 早朝,大堤
vt. 為…筑堤

早朝,大堤為…築堤

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
    A levee ( ˈ l ɛ v i or ˈ l ɛ v eɪ ), [a] [1] dike (American English), dyke (British English; see spelling differences), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is an elevated ridge, natural or artificial, alongside the banks of a river, often intended to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river
  • 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
  • National Levee Database - United States Army
    A levee is a human-made barrier with the primary purpose of reducing the frequency of flooding to a portion of the floodplain, sometimes referred to as a levee system What Kinds of Levees
  • What Is A Levee? - FEMA. gov
    An accredited levee system is a system that FEMA has determined to meet the design, data, and documentation requirements of 44 CFR 65 10 and therefore can be shown on a FIRM as providing a base chance or greater level of flood hazard reduction
  • LEVEE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    LEVEE definition: 1 a wall made of soil or other materials that is built next to a river to stop the river from… Learn more
  • 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
  • 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
  • LEVEE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    Coal-bearing, mud-dominated strata are commonly associated with high-constructive sandy channel systems, with extensive overbank, levee and splay deposits
  • Levee - definition of levee by The Free Dictionary
    1 an embankment designed to prevent the flooding of a river 2 a natural deposit of sand or mud built up along the side of a river or stream 3 one of the small continuous ridges surrounding fields that are to be irrigated 4 a landing place for ships 5 to furnish with a levee n
  • levee - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    levee (plural levees) An elevated ridge of deposited sediment on the banks of a river, formed by the river's overflow at times of high discharge An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi The steep bank of a river





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