Dam vs. Mother — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dam and Mother
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Dam
A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use, aquaculture, and navigability.
Mother
A mother is the female parent of a child. Mothers are women who inhabit or perform the role of bearing some relation to their children, who may or may not be their biological offspring.
Dam
A barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, forming a reservoir used to generate electricity or as a water supply
The dam burst after torrential rain
The Hoover Dam
Mother
A woman who gives birth to a child.
Dam
A rubber sheet used to keep saliva from the teeth during dental operations, or as a prophylactic device during cunnilingus and anilingus.
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Mother
A woman whose egg unites with a sperm, producing an embryo.
Dam
The female parent of an animal, especially a domestic mammal.
Mother
A woman who adopts a child.
Dam
Build a dam across (a river or lake)
The river was dammed to form Lake Powell
Mother
A woman who raises a child.
Dam
A barrier constructed across a waterway to control the flow or raise the level of water.
Mother
A female parent of an animal.
Dam
A body of water controlled by such a barrier.
Mother
A female ancestor.
Dam
A barrier against the passage of liquid or loose material, as a rubber sheet used in dentistry to isolate one or more teeth from the rest of the mouth.
Mother
A woman who holds a position of authority or responsibility similar to that of a mother
A den mother.
Dam
A female parent of an animal, especially a domesticated mammal such as a horse.
Mother
A mother superior.
Dam
(Archaic) A mother.
Mother
Used as a form of address for such a woman.
Dam
To hold back or confine by means of a dam.
Mother
A woman who creates, originates, or founds something
"the discovery of radium, which made Marie Curie mother to the Atomic Age" (Alden Whitman).
Dam
To close up; obstruct
He tried to dam his grief.
Mother
A creative source; an origin
Philosophy is the mother of the sciences.
Dam
A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.
A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country.
Mother
Used as a title for a woman respected for her wisdom and age.
Dam
The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure.
Boats may only be used at places set aside for boating on the dam.
Mother
Maternal love and tenderness
Brought out the mother in her.
Dam
(dentistry) A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
Mother
The biggest or most significant example of its kind
The mother of all battles.
Dam
A reservoir.
Mother
Vulgar Slang Something considered extraordinary, as in disagreeableness, size, or intensity.
Dam
A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
Mother
A stringy slime composed of yeast cells and bacteria that forms on the surface of fermenting liquids and is added to wine or cider to start the production of vinegar.
Dam
Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.
Mother
Relating to or being a mother.
Dam
A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.
Mother
Characteristic of a mother
Mother love.
Dam
(India) An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.
Mother
Being the source or origin
The mother church.
Dam
A former coin of Nepal, 128 of which were worth one mohar.
Mother
Derived from or as if from one's mother; native
One's mother language.
Dam
(transitive) To block the flow of water.
Mother
To give birth to
Mothered three children.
Dam
Damn.
Mother
To be the source of; create or produce
"Necessity mothered the invention of printing" (Irving Wallace).
Dam
Damn.
Mother
To act as mother to, as in nourishing and protecting.
Dam
A female parent; - used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
Our sire and dam, now confined to horses, are a relic of this age (13th century) . . . .Dame is used of a hen; we now make a great difference between dame and dam.
The dam runs lowing up and down,Looking the way her harmless young one went.
Mother
To act or serve as a mother.
Dam
A king or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
Mother
A female parent, sometimes especially a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
I am visiting my mother today.
The lioness was a mother of four cubs.
Dam
A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
Mother
A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
My sister-in-law has just become a mother for the first time.
He had something of his mother in him.
Dam
A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
Mother
A pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother are conveyed to the fetus.
Dam
To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; - generally used with in or up.
I'll have the current in this place dammed up.
A weight of earth that dams in the water.
Mother
A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
Dam
To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
The strait pass was dammedWith dead men hurt behind, and cowards.
Mother
(figuratively) A female ancestor.
Dam
A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
Mother
(figuratively) A source or origin.
The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.
Dam
A metric unit of length equal to ten meters
Mother
Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. mother of all.}}
Dam
Female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock
Mother
A title of respect for one's mother-in-law.
Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.
Dam
Obstruct with, or as if with, a dam;
Dam the gorges of the Yangtse River
Mother
(dated) A term of address for one's wife.
Mother
(figuratively) Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
Mother
(figuratively) Any person or entity which performs mothering.
Mother
Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance consisting of acetobacters which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids such as wine, or cider, and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
Pieces of mother, adding mother to vinegar
Mother
(railroading) A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
Mother
The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
Mother
The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
Mother
(obsolete) Hysterical passion; hysteria; the uterus.
Mother
A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
Mother
Motherfucker.
Mother
A striking example.
Mother
Alternative form of moth-er
Mother
To give birth to or produce (as its female parent) a child. father]].
Mother
(transitive) To treat as a mother would be expected to treat her child; to nurture.
Mother
(transitive) To cause to contain that substance which develops in fermenting alcohol and turns it into vinegar.
Mothered oil, mothered vinegar, mothered wine
Mother
To develop mother.
Mother
A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
Mother
That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
Alas! poor country! . . . it can notBe called our mother, but our grave.
I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years.
Mother
An old woman or matron.
Mother
The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
Mother
Hysterical passion; hysteria.
Mother
A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
Mother
Same as motherfucker.
Mother
A person or thing with some exceptional quality, as great size or power; as, a grizzly stuck his nose in my tent and I grabbed my pistol and shot the mother.
Mother
Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.
It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.
Mother
To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown, would have mothered another body's child.
Mother
To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
Mother
A woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother);
The mother of three children
Mother
A stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar
Mother
A term of address for an elderly woman
Mother
A condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation;
Necessity is the mother of invention
Mother
Care for like a mother;
She fusses over her husband
Mother
Make children;
Abraham begot Isaac
Men often father children but don't recognize them
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