sluices – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
sluice
v.
open a sluice and and let out water; drain; release a flow of water, flood; wash in a sluice; send through a sluice; flow through, flow out
n.
manmade water channel equipped with a valve or gate for regulating water flow; valve or gate used to regulate water flow; water flow controlled by a sluice; trough, water channel used to transport objects (i.e. logs)
Sluice
A
sluice (from the
Dutch "sluis") is a water channel controlled at its head by a gate. A
mill race,
leet,
flume,
penstock or
lade is a sluice channelling water toward a
water mill. The terms
sluice,
sluice gate,
knife gate, and
slide gate are used interchangeably in the water and wastewater control industry.
sluice
Noun
1. conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
(synonym) sluiceway, penstock
(hypernym) conduit
(part-meronym) sluicegate, sluice valve, floodgate, penstock, head gate, water gate
Verb
1. pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
(synonym) sluice down
(hypernym) pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets
(derivation) sluiceway, penstock
2. irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
(synonym) flush
(hypernym) drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse
(derivation) sluiceway, penstock
3. transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
(hypernym) transport
(derivation) sluiceway, penstock
4. draw through a sluice; "sluice water"
(hypernym) draw, take out
(derivation) sluiceway, penstock
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