Dam (disambiguation)

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The words dam and damn have very different meanings, but they are sometimes confused in spelling, particularly by foreigners.

Dam may refer to:

  • Dam, a barrier obstructing flowing water, or sometimes a reservoir created by it. When it is a verb, its past form is dammed
  • Dam, a biological mother, the counterpart of a sire
  • Decametre, abbreviated dam, is 10 metres
  • Deutsche Angelgeräte Manufaktur
  • Dam (methylase), DNA adenine methylase, which adds a methyl group to newly synthesized DNA at the adenine in 5'-GATC-3'
  • Dam (North Holland), a Dutch village
  • Dam (Limburg), a Dutch village
  • Dam Square, a square in Amsterdam
  • Dam, Moselle, a village in the French département of Moselle
  • DAM (band), the first Palestinian Rap Group
  • See DAM for the word used as an acronym
  • A dam (coin) was a small Indian coin
  • A dam, or danm, one of the dancers in the Dominican folk dance bélé
  • Digital asset management, a form of enterprise content management

Damn may refer to:

  • Damn, damnation, a condemnation, usually by God or by a god, and a frequent profane word. When it is a verb, its past form is damned
  • dAmn (deviantART messaging network), an internet chat system
  • 'Damn!', a classic series of comedy sketches by British comedy duo Fry and Laurie that were a send-up of soap opera Howard's Way.
  • "Damn", a song by Fabolous from his 2003 album Street Dreams
  • "Damn", a song by 112 from their 2005 album Pleasure & Pain
  • "Damn!, a song by YoungBloodZ from their 2003 album Drankin' Patnaz

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