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Dam vs Tailwater - What's the difference?

dam | tailwater |

As an adjective dam

is being a pervert.

As a noun tailwater is

the water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.

dam

Translingual

Symbol

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    tailwater

    English

    Noun

  • The water located immediately downstream from a hydraulic structure, such as a dam, bridge, or culvert.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 27, author=Peter Kaminsky, title=Rules for Reservoirs Pose Threat to Trout Population, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Like the more renowned Missouri and Henry’s Fork of Montana and Idaho, it is a tailwater fishery; that is, it owes its remarkable fecundity and its population of big wild trout to the cold-water outflow of reservoir impoundment. }}