embankment
বাঁধ
definition
noun
There are 140,000 addresses in Hull relying on walls and embankments to prevent flooding every day of the year.
a wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.
translation of 'embankment'
noun
প্রাকার,
বাঁধ-নির্মাণ,
ভেড়ি,
জাঙ্গাল,
বাঁধ
example
a railway 'embankment'
Police said a Land Rover that had careered down an 'embankment' onto the railway line had set off the accident.
Chaos hit the M60 around Manchester today after a tanker careered off a slip road and down an 'embankment' , killing the driver.
An engineered 'embankment' and access roads stretch its footprint to 1,100 acres.
Firstly, it is evident that considerable improvements have been carried out along the railway 'embankment' .
Boggy bits slowed us for the first half mile, then we hit the pastures down by the river, connected with the 'embankment' of the disused railway line and picked up speed.
Once the vehicle's momentum had carried it towards the 'embankment' alongside the railway tracks there would have been no way it could have been halted in time.
The footpath is to allow disabled access from the bottom of Crofters Lea down the old railway 'embankment' to Milner's Road.
Another man was killed this time last year when the truck he was driving veered off the road and down the railway 'embankment' on to the tracks.
He told the council last Tuesday that speed restrictions have already been put on trains as they go over the 'embankment' close the village railway station.
It slid off the road and down an 'embankment' on to the East Coast main line.
Flood walls and 'embankments' protect large areas of lower Bootham, Clifton Green and Leeman Road, as well as North Street on the opposite bank of the river from the Guildhall.
In Malton and Norton, defences will be a mix of reinforced concrete retaining walls, earth 'embankments' and steel sheet piling to run parallel with the river.
The epilogue calls the 1999 floods ‘the inevitable consequence of neglecting the channel and 'embankments' of the main river’.
But Environment Agency chiefs said that level should be inches below the top of the city's flood walls and 'embankments' , which protect hundreds of homes in the city.
There are 140,000 addresses in Hull relying on walls and 'embankments' to prevent flooding every day of the year.
The proposed new scheme will include a combination of sheet piling walls, reinforced concrete walls and earth 'embankments' .
The approved scheme, which should start in May and continue until the end of 2003, will contain the Derwent within flood walls and 'embankments' varying in height between 1.4m and 1.7m.
The fossils had been collected in the early 1840s in pits dug to provide material for the 'embankments' to carry Brunel's Great Western Railway from London to Bristol.
Despite this I was pleased to see that Armitt is emphasising the need to repair bridges, viaducts, 'embankments' and signal boxes rather than glamorous projects like the West Coast Route Modernisation.
The bridge structure is close to completion with only the 'embankments' and access roads on both ends still to be finished over the next six months.
A planning application for Malton and Norton's flood defences, which will consist of 'embankments' and flood walls, will be submitted this week.
The agency has drawn together flood prevention options ranging from improving upland management techniques, and the blocking of moorland drainage channels, to the construction of 'embankments' or walls as local flood defences.
Malton, Norton and Old Malton - some of the towns worst hit by flooding - will receive £6.3m for a programme involving building 'embankments' and walls along the River Derwent.
Railway workers spray kilos of the stuff on railways and 'embankments' .
The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth 'embankments' .
The engineers of Spt Coy needed the pile driver to hammer four-metre sheet piles into the ground to stabilise 'embankments' for road construction.
The Environment Agency wants to spend £4.5m raising floodwalls and 'embankments' to keep flood waters in the River Ouse channel and to allow for predicted rises in sea levels.
It was agreed with the contractor of the Deeside road that all 'embankments' should be completed by November 1796 and that no metal should be laid on the roadway ‘until March 1797’.
A huge Flood Action Plan, for instance, called for ever-higher 'embankments' to keep the rivers at bay.
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