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Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply

This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of sensibility. -I. Taylor.

To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice earth or gold dust in mining
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 of flood gate
To emit by, or as by, flood gates. -Milton
A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt

He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. -De Quincey.

The stream flowing through a flood gate
{v} to throw out water, cast, let out
{n} a vent for water, lock, floodgate
transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
{f} 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
An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate of flood gate
irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
Water going through a very narrow passage between two rocks at high speed To be avoided, unless you know your boat will fit and you are sure you want what's at the bottom
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining
If you sluice something or sluice it down or out, you wash it with a stream of water. He sluiced the bath and filled it. a passage for water to flow through, with a special gate which can be opened or closed to control it (escluse, from exclusa, from excludere; EXCLUDE)
A structure containing a gate to control the flow of water from one area to another
pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef
An artifical 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
pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
To emit by, or as by, flood gates
To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] Milton
conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" draw through a sluice; "sluice water" transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs" pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows
A sluice is a passage that carries a current of water and has a barrier, called a sluice gate, which can be opened and closed to control the flow of water
draw through a sluice; "sluice water"
Either a ditch or a wooden device, as a Long Tom, used to wash gold in large quantities in placer mining
A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth
{i} 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)
conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
sluice-gate
wall for stopping the flow of water, dam, dike
sluiced
past of sluice
sluices
plural of sluice
sluicing
pouring from or as if from a sluice; "the sluicing rain
sluicing
pouring from or as if from a sluice; "the sluicing rain"
sluicing
present participle of sluice
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sluice

    Турецкое произношение

    slus

    Произношение

    /ˈslo͞os/ /ˈsluːs/

    Этимология

    () Old French escluse, French écluse, Late Latin exclusa, sclusa, from Latin excludere, exclusum, to shut out: confer Dutch sluis sluice, from the Old French. See exclude.

    Времена

    sluices, sluicing, sluiced
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