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Science - Accounting | | English term or phrase: backing up | This pumping station protects XXX(Place) against a repeat of flooding of 1979 by preventing water from the River YYY backing up ZZZ (Name of Place).
What does backing up mean here? |
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| | Rückfluss | Explanation:
If the river cannot flow DOWNstream, it "backs up" - UPstream.
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Note added at 2004-01-29 13:58:50 (GMT)
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BTW, it should read \"backing up TO....\", I think.
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That\'s a nice new English word - \"Rückfluss\"; but I guess you have what you need, anyway....This can happen as in 2002, when the Elbe was in flood it stopped its tributaries from joining the flow as they normally would, and the Havel, for example, backed up to Havelberg, causing widespread flooding in that region too. |
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Local time: 02:07
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3 mins confidence:  Rückfluss
Explanation:
If the river cannot flow DOWNstream, it "backs up" - UPstream.
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Note added at 2004-01-29 13:58:50 (GMT)
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BTW, it should read \"backing up TO....\", I think.
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Note added at 2004-01-29 14:03:04 (GMT)
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That\'s a nice new English word - \"Rückfluss\"; but I guess you have what you need, anyway....This can happen as in 2002, when the Elbe was in flood it stopped its tributaries from joining the flow as they normally would, and the Havel, for example, backed up to Havelberg, causing widespread flooding in that region too.
| David Moore
Local time: 02:07
Native speaker of:  English
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Explanation:
Back up - to accumulate in a congested state. Another way to say flooding.
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Note added at 11 mins (2004-01-29 14:06:49 GMT)
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Behind the dam, the Yukon River backed up to create Schwatka Lake, which in turn tamed the swift water at Miles Canyon.
http://sts.gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/geoscape/whitehorse/index_e.asp?C...
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In particular, since the stream flows through the city in the opposite direction of the Han River, when the water of the Han River backed up and overflowed in the rainy season, the stream sometimes became a raging torrent. Overflowing of the stream caused constant troubles.
http://kn.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/08/24/20...
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Waters of the Colorado River backed up behind the dam creating a lake 186 miles long and a shoreline of over 2000 miles, longer than the entire West Coast of the US.
http://www.tourthesouthwest.com/lake_powell_tour.html
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When we finally could begin to install the coffer
dam to protect the area from river back-up, the wet season
delayed us further and caused additional unnecessary cost to
LCSI.
http://www.law.gwu.edu/asbca/decision/pdf2002/53443.pdf
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