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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 ( 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
    Levees are commonly built alongside rivers or streams – which can be large or quite small These levees are typically designed to a certain size and shape to handle possible flooding within a
  • 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 | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
    LEVEE meaning: 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 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
  • What is a levee? | HowStuffWorks
    One of the oldest weapons they've wielded against the rivers and oceans is the levee, also known as a dike A levee is simply a man-made embankment built to keep a river from overflowing its banks or to prevent ocean waves from washing into undesired areas
  • Levee - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    A levee, or levée, is a raised bank of a river The levee or dyke is a protection against floods [1][2][3] There are two types of levee: riverdykes and seadykes The seadyke was invented in Holland in 1277 Rotterdam is largely below sea level, but is protected by its dykes
  • 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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