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  • 31sluice — šliuzas statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Hidrotechninis įrenginys laivams, žuvims perkelti iš skirtingo lygio vandens baseinų. atitikmenys: angl. lock; sluice vok. Schlüsse, m rus. шлюз, m …

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  • 32sluice — [14] A sluice is etymologically a device for ‘excluding’ water. The word comes via Old French escluse from Gallo Roman *exclūsa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of Latin exclūdere ‘shut out’ (source of English exclude [14]). This was a …

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  • 33Sluice gate — Sluice Sluice, n. [OF. escluse, F. [ e]cluse, LL. exclusa, sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D. sluis sluice, from the Old French. See {Exclude}.] 1. An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill… …

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  • 34sluice|way — «SLOOS WAY», noun. 1. a channel controlled or fed by a sluice. 2. any small, artificial channel for running water …

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  • 35Sluice Creek — is a tributary of Dennis Creek in Cape May County, New Jersey in the United States.ee also*List of New Jersey riversExternal links* [http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nj/nwis/current/?type=flow U.S. Geological Survey: NJ stream gaging stations] …

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  • 36sluice down — verb pour as if from a sluice An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef • Syn: ↑sluice • Derivationally related forms: ↑sluice (for: ↑sluice) • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 37sluice valve — noun regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice • Syn: ↑sluicegate, ↑floodgate, ↑penstock, ↑head gate, ↑water gate • Hypernyms: ↑regulator • Pa …

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  • 38sluice-gate — n. Flood gate, water gate, sluice …

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  • 39sluice box — noun : a single section usually about 12 feet long of a gold mining sluice …

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  • 40sluice gate — noun : the sliding gate of a sluice …

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