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levee    音标拼音: [l'ɛvi]
n. 早朝,大堤
vt. 为…筑堤

早朝,大堤为…筑堤

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 made from stones laid in horizontal rows with a bed of thin turf between each of them is known as a spetchel Artificial levees require substantial engineering Their surface must be protected from erosion, so they are planted with vegetation such as Bermuda grass in order to bind the earth together
  • National Levee Database - United States Army
    National Levee Database The Port Monmouth Flood Risk Management Project, once complete, will include levees, floodwalls, dunes, and periodic beach renourishment along the Raritan Bay and Sandy Hook Bay in Port Monmouth Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey The project is designed to provide protection to low-lying residential and commercial structures, built upon and near salt and
  • 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
  • Levee (ceremony) - Wikipedia
    Levee (ceremony) A Levée underway in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, 1903 King Edward VII is seated on the throne, the Royal Company of Archers stand guard The levee (from the French word lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising") [1] was traditionally a daily moment of intimacy and accessibility to a monarch or leader, as he got up in the morning
  • National Levee Database
    National Levee Database The National Levee Database captures all known levees in the United States It provides users with the ability to search for specific data about levees and serves as a national resource to support awareness and preparedness around flooding The database is intended to help decision makers understand levees - including their location and condition This information can
  • What is a levee? - HowStuffWorks
    A levee is typically little more than a mound of less permeable soil, like clay, wider at the base and narrower at the top These mounds run in a long strip, sometimes for many miles, along a river, lake or ocean
  • 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 | 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 Levees are usually embankments of dirt built wide
  • Levees | What? Facts | A Level Geography Revision Notes
    A levee is a characteristic or fake divider that squares water from going where we do not need it to go Click for even more facts and information on Levees
  • Levee - National Geographic Society
    The levee system along the Mississippi River has some of the longest individual levees in the world One of these levees stretches south along the river from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States, for an entire 611 kilometers (380 miles)





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