Dam and Pillar

Dam

Dam noun - A bank of earth constructed to control water.

Pillar and dam are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pillar" instead a noun "Dam".

Pillar

Pillar noun - An upright shaft that supports an overhead structure.
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Synonyms for Pillar

Dam and pillar are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dam" instead a noun "Pillar".

Nearby Word: pillared

How words are described

old old dam old pillar
full full dam full pillar
single single dam single pillar
small small dam small pillar
Other adjectives: entire, enormous, huge, wooden, new, major, final, gigantic, last, concrete, nearby, giant, collapsing.

Both words in one sentence

  • Manga / Heroman Pillar of Light: When Heroman one hit kills the MR-1 whilst running off the power generated by an entire hydroelectric dam.
  • Epic Flail Megatron in the 2007 Transformers briefly uses one to smash apart his prison chamber in Hoover Dam, and later the rooftop pillar Sam Witwicky is clinging to.
    Source: Epic Flail
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