embankment – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
embankment
n.
dike, raised mound of earth, earthwork, rampart (for defense, protection, holding back water, etc.)
Embankment
Embankment may refer to:
- A levee, an artificial bank raised above the immediately surrounding land to redirect or prevent flooding by a river, lake or sea
- Embankment (transportation), in transportation, a raised bank to carry a road, railway, or canal across a low-lying or wet area
- Embankment dam, a dam made of mounded earth and rock
- Land reclamation along river banks, usually marked by roads and walkways running along it, parallel to the river, as in:
- Embankment tube station, a station on the London Underground
- "Embankment", a work by artist Rachel Whiteread
embankment
Noun
1. a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection
(hypernym) mound, hill
(hyponym) rampart, bulwark, wall
(part-meronym) revetment, revetement, stone facing
(derivation) embank
embankment
n.
nábřeží; hráz; násep
embankment
Rzecz.
nabrzeże; nasyp
