Sluice in English dictionary

  • sluice

    Meanings and definitions of "Sluice"

    • An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
    • Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
    • The stream flowing through a flood gate.
    • (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
    • (rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton.
    • To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt.
    • To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in mining.
    • noun
      An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
    • noun
      Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
    • noun
      The stream flowing through a flood gate.
    • noun
      (mining)
      A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
    • noun
      (linguistics)
      An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
    • verb
      (transitive, rare)
      To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      ( more generally) To wash ( down or out).
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To flow, pour.
    • verb
      (linguistics)
      To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
    • Vertical sliding gate or valve to regulate the flow of water in a channel or lock.
    • noun
      conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
    • verb
      draw through a sluice; "sluice water"
    • verb
      irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
    • verb
      pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
    • verb
      transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"

    Synonyms of "Sluice" in English dictionary

    sop, drench, pelt are the top synonyms of "Sluice" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of Sluice

    • sluice ( plural  sluices)
    • sluice ( third-person singular simple present sluices, present participle sluicing, simple past and past participle sluiced)
    • sluice (plural sluices)
    • sluice (third-person singular simple present sluices, present participle sluicing, simple past and past participle sluiced)
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