embankment
tanggul
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
pematang,
empang,
tanggul,
embarau,
tambak
example
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.
Police said a Land Rover that had careered down an 'embankment' onto the railway line had set off the accident.
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.
It slid off the road and down an 'embankment' on to the East Coast main line.
The footpath is to allow disabled access from the bottom of Crofters Lea down the old railway 'embankment' to Milner's Road.
An engineered 'embankment' and access roads stretch its footprint to 1,100 acres.
a railway 'embankment'
Chaos hit the M60 around Manchester today after a tanker careered off a slip road and down an 'embankment' , killing the driver.
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.
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.
Firstly, it is evident that considerable improvements have been carried out along the railway 'embankment' .
Where capital was readily available, as on most European main lines, civil engineering could defy topography, and span great valleys on 'embankments' and viaducts, and drive tunnels through mountain ridges.
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 landscape is tremendous; flat, featureless fields, slight rolling hills, narrow roads with large 'embankments' blocking the view.
There are 140,000 addresses in Hull relying on walls and 'embankments' to prevent flooding every day of the year.
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.
It said the flood walls and 'embankments' being proposed would vary in height between one and 1.8 metres and protect most of the village, including the A166, against a one in 100-year flooding event.
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.
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’.
The proposed new scheme will include a combination of sheet piling walls, reinforced concrete walls and earth 'embankments' .
A huge Flood Action Plan, for instance, called for ever-higher 'embankments' to keep the rivers at bay.
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.
If your home was inundated in the floods of November 2000, or came within inches of disaster, you may just have wondered whether existing flood walls and 'embankments' should be strengthened or new ones built.
The erosion in Ketahun district in North Bengkulu regency had already damaged parts of the highway, and road 'embankments' built on five-meter-high cliffs had collapsed due to the continuous pounding of waves early this year.
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.
According to the RSPB, the River Earn is cut off from its natural flood plain by earth 'embankments' protecting agricultural land.
The city's Bureau of Public Works prepared about 140,000 sandbags and distributed them to emergency rescue teams in each city district and to areas with unfinished river 'embankments' .
This species tends to colonise waste ground and railway '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 channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth 'embankments' .
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