Noun:

நீரை நிறுத்தி வைக்கும் கரை,

embankment தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

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embankment's Usage Examples:

The diesel rattles gently along the embankment top on its regular shuttle.

At the present time the preservation of the embankments about the point of bifurcation demands the constant care of the Bagdad government.

A bridge and an embankment connect it with Caprera.

Slips in cuttings or embankments18 23.

When the ice breaks up in spring they always leave their embankments, and rove about until a little before the fall of the leaf, when they return to their old habitations, and lay in their winter stock of wood.

The river is embanked from Piacenza, and continuously from Cremona, the total length of the embankments exceeding 600 m.

- When the earth-works of a line have been completed and the tops of the embankments and the bottoms of the cuttings brought to the level decided upon, the next step is to lay the permanent way, so-called probably in distinction to the temporary way used during construction.

As embankments have to support the weight of heavy trains, they must be uniformly firm and well drained, and before the line is fully opened for traffic they must be allowed time to consolidate, a process which is helped by running construction or mineral trains over them.

In Berlin, on the Stadtbahn - which for a part of its length traverses private property - masonry arches, or earthen embankments between retaining walls, were substituted for the metallic structure wherever possible.

The lines are single, for the most part; and as the embankments, the cuttings, the culverts and the bridge-piers have not been constructed for a double line, any change now would be very costly.

This inner and shallower harbour, perhaps the Kcw463 ?up*, was afterwards excluded from the town precinct by the walls of Conon, which traversing its opening on an embankment (76 Sta, uEuov x i.

Synonyms:

levee, stone facing, mound, hill, revetment, rampart, revetement, wall, bulwark,

Antonyms:

outfield, natural depression, attack,