sluice

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

sluices

1.
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.
2.
A water gate or floodgate.
3.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
4.
The stream flowing through a floodgate.
5.
(mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
6.
(linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

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verb

V_es/s

sluices

V_ing/Gerund

sluicing

V_ed/pp

sluiced

1.
(rare, transitive)To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
2.
(transitive)To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
3.
(transitive)To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining
4.
(broadly, transitive)(transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
5.
(intransitive)To flow, pour.
6.
(linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from escluse (sluice, floodgate), from exclusa (extrusion, gate), from Latin exclūsus, form of exclūdō (to shut out, to exclude) (English exclude). Cognate to sluis.