noun Download 🔗Share An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow. Examples : "The farmer opened the sluice to release water from the irrigation canal onto his thirsty fields. " utility architecture technology environment machine device Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A water gate or floodgate. Examples : "The farmer opened the sluice to release water from the reservoir and irrigate his fields. " utility architecture environment agriculture nautical building Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply. Examples : "The kitchen sink's drain is a sluice for excess water. " utility structure technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The stream flowing through a floodgate. Examples : "The sluice gate opened, releasing a strong stream of water. " architecture utility environment geography nature system technology place Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth. Examples : "The gold prospectors used the sluice to wash the dirt, hoping to find gold. " geology utility agriculture technology machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing. Examples : "The teacher's question, "Who wants to volunteer for the project?" elicited a sluice, as several students replied, "I do." " linguistics grammar Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To emit by, or as by, flood gates. Examples : "The dam operator sluiced the water from the reservoir to refill the town's water supply. " utility environment technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice Examples : "to sluice meadows" utility action environment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice. Examples : "The farmer sluiced the muddy well with a powerful hose, washing away the dirt. " agriculture utility environment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (more generally) To wash (down or out). Examples : "After the messy art project, the teacher had to sluice the paint off the tables with a hose. " utility action process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To flow, pour. Examples : "The water from the leaky faucet sluiced down the counter. " action nature process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing. Examples : ""I know we need to buy something, but I don't remember what," where "what" sluices the rest of the question "what we need to buy". " grammar linguistics phonetics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading