Dam vs. Sam — What's the Difference?

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.

Surface-to-air missile

A barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level, forming a reservoir used to generate electricity or as a water supply

(slang) Federal narcotics agent.

A rubber sheet used to keep saliva from the teeth during dental operations, or as a prophylactic device during cunnilingus and anilingus.

To assemble.

The female parent of an animal, especially a domestic mammal.

To bring together; join (in marriage, friendship, love, etc.).

Build a dam across (a river or lake)

To bring together; collect; put in order; arrange.

A barrier constructed across a waterway to control the flow or raise the level of water.

To assemble; come together.

A body of water controlled by such a barrier.

To coagulate; curdle (milk).

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.

(obsolete) Together

A female parent of an animal, especially a domesticated mammal such as a horse.

(dialectal) Half or imperfectly done.

(Archaic) A mother.

(of food) Half-heated.

To hold back or confine by means of a dam.

Together.

To close up; obstruct

A Surface to Air Missile.

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 guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target

The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure.

(dentistry) A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.

A reservoir.

A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.

A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.

(India) An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.

A former coin of Nepal, 128 of which were worth one mohar.

(transitive) To block the flow of water.

Damn.

Damn.

A female parent; - used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.

A king or crowned piece in the game of draughts.

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.

A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

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.

To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.

A barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea

A metric unit of length equal to ten meters

Female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock

Obstruct with, or as if with, a dam;