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- verb Present participle of
dam .
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Examples
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And it's kind of damming in along the Appalachians.
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And if they were going to take the consensus of the intelligence community, you wouldn't see this kind of damming situation where Syria is concerned.
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If she used indirect force, such as damming a river, that was an insult or created the idea that the ruler involved was weak, and that meant he had to fight.
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They perform great public works by the united efforts of the whole community -- such as damming up streams and constructing mounds for their habitations.
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- mineral water pools created by kind of damming up a stream!
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Indeed, there is little here that does not happen on a Giant Scale; I was particularly taken with the Dyson clouds: the practice of 'damming' stars by surrounding them with "thousands of ringworlds", since "there is nothing shinier
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Yesterday's colder runs of the GFS had high pressure to the north in a positiion conducive to cold air damming - with winds from the northeast, circulating clockwise around the high, wedging the cold surface air against the Appalachians - while and after the precipitation moves in.
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Models are known to underestimate cold air damming, so I am concerned about the icing potential particularly in Loudoun and Frederick counties, which are smartly under a winter storm watch.
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The NAM model, which has high resolution, and often captures the cold air damming effect best, indicates the freezing line should be near or south of D.C. through 4 a.m., hence favoring freezing rain from the District and points north during initial part of the storm but around the District, temperatures are right at freezing, so it's marginal.
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Today, the GFS has mostly lost both the coastal low and the cold air damming.
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