sluice gate

  • 31gate — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ front, main ▪ entrance, exit ▪ back, side ▪ inner, outer …

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  • 32sluice — sluice1 [slu:s] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: escluse, from Late Latin exclusa, from Latin excludere; EXCLUDE] a passage for water to flow through, with a special gate which can be opened or closed to control it sluice 2 sluice2 v 1.) …

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  • 33gate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. gateway, opening, portal; sluice, floodgate; slang, admission. See receiving, ejection, passage. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. gateway, entrance, portal, ingress, passage, way, port, turnstile, revolving… …

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  • 34head gate — gate of a dam, sluice gate, gate of a dam …

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  • 35sluice — noun Sluice is used before these nouns: ↑gate …

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  • 36sluice — [sluːs] verb [T] I to wash something with a flow of water II noun [C] sluice [sluːs] a passage that water flows along, with a gate that can be closed to control the flow …

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  • 37Gate (engineering) — *In engineering, a gate is a rotating or sliding structure, supported by hinges or by a rotating horizontal or vertical axis, that can be located at an extreme of a large pipe or canal in order to control the flow of water or any fluid from one… …

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  • 38sluice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. channel (see egress, conduit). II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A gate] Syn. floodgate, conduit, lock, watergate; see gate . 2. [A trough] Syn. sluiceway, moat, ditch; see channel 1 , trench 1 . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 39tide gate — Synonyms and related words: aboideau, air lock, direct tide, dock gate, ebb, ebb and flow, ebb tide, flood, flood tide, flood hatch, floodgate, flow, flux, flux and reflux, full tide, gate, head gate, high tide, high water, lock, lock gate, low… …

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  • 40water gate — Synonyms and related words: aboideau, air lock, aqueduct, arroyo, bed, canal, creek bed, culvert, dock gate, donga, dry bed, flood hatch, floodgate, flume, gate, gulch, gully, gullyhole, head gate, headrace, irrigation ditch, lock, lock gate,… …

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