levee

5 letters in word "levee": E E E L V.

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Words found within levee:

ee eel el eve lee lev leve vee vele

• Definitions:
• a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court) a pier that provides a landing place on a river an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing
• A levee, levée (from the feminine past participle of the French verb lever, "to raise"), floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial slope or wall, usually earthen, which parallels the course of a river. The word levee seems to have come into English through its use in colonial Louisiana.
• Lever ("rising"), adopted in English as levée— initially the simple act of getting up in the morning— was raised to a ceremonial custom at the court of Louis XIV. ...
• The Levée is a New Year's Day social event hosted by the Governor General of Canada, the Lieutenant-Governors, military establishments, municipalities and other institutions.
• A long, narrow embankment usually built to protect land from flooding. If built of concrete or masonry the structure is usually referred to as a flood wall. Levees and floodwalls confine streamflow within a specified area to prevent flooding. ...
• A man-made embankment that controls or confines water.
• a raised bank along a river, occurring naturally as the result of deposits left during successive floods. [AHDOS]
• (noun) an embankment designed to prevent the flooding of a river.
• Zones in a lava flow where the lava between the zones is moving faster than the lava outside the zones.
• A raised embankment along the edge of a river channel. Natural levees result from periodic overbank flooding, when coarser sediment is immediately deposited because of a reduction in river velocity. Levees are often constructed by humans living in low-lying areas as protection against flooding.
• embankment along a river to prevent flooding, as in : The townspeople felt much safer once the levee was completed.
• An outward sloping raised area on each side of a lava channel. Analogous to a river levee, it is built up by successive lava layers whenever the channel overflows.
• A broad, low embankment built up along the banks of a river channel during floods.
• natural or manmade embankment flanking a stream (bank, berm).
• A protective barrier built along the banks of a stream to prevent flooding. See also natural levee.
• An embankment built to keep a river from overflowing; a landing place on the river.
• An elevated berm that is used to protect adjacent low lying ground from floodwaters. The levee is usually lined with a structural material such as concrete or rip-rap to ensure that it does not fail from erosion. ...
• an embankment along the shore of a river, built for protection against floods; a natural levee is an embankment built by deposits of river sediment left during extraordinarily high floods; like artificial levees, these deposits restrain more typical floods
• soil or other materials deposited to contain the flow of water
• [elaborated] ... (2) ... a reception of visitors by a member of a royal family or a head of state, or the latter's representative.
• A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water, prevent flooding, or to keep out the sea.
• Raised bank of earth built to control or confine water (also known as a dike).
• An embankment or raised area that prevents water from moving from one place to another.
• a wall or a large mound of earth built along a river to prevent it from flooding
• A man-made structure, usually an earthen embankment often reinforced with soil cement, that is designed to contain or divert the flow of water.
• A ridge of sediment deposited alongside a stream as floodwaters rising out of the channel lose energy and deposit their coarser load.
• Flood barrier constructed of compacted soil.
• An embankment for preventing flooding.
• A berm or low ridge of unconsolidated material, usually sand and gravel, adjacent to a stream or tidal channel.

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