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English-Galician CLUVI Dictionary, 2nd edition (revised version 2.2)

(Based on the CLUVI Corpus of the University of Vigo)



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- dairy, dairying, dais, daisy, Dalai Lama, dale, dally, Dalmatian, dalmatic, dam, damage, damaging, Damascus, damask, dame, damn, damnably, damnation, damned


dam


- noun
- presa

EN Hydrologists and civil engineers used to have a standard response to water scarcity: build more dams, desalinization plants and even pipelines to bring water from humid to dry areas.
GL Construír máis presas, desaliniza-la auga, mesmo conducila das zonas húmidas ás secas foron algunhas das solucións estándar preconizadas por hidrólogos e enxeñeiros.
- Fonte: C04 (8)


- transitive verb
- construír encoros

EN Soviet experts invited by the colonel began studying the feasibility of damming the Nile's tributaries and exploiting its water, provoking Egypt into threatening that any dams built would be destroyed by military force.
GL Os expertos soviéticos invitados polo coronel empezaron a estudia-la posibilidade de construír encoros nos afluentes do Nilo e utiliza-las súas augas, provocando as ameazas de Exipto de que toda presa construída sería arrasada pola forza militar.
- Fonte: C28 (477)