sluice
n. 水门, 水闸, 蓄水 vt. 泄洪, 冲洗 vi. 奔流
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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.
水闸
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A water gate or floodgate.
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Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
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The stream flowing through a floodgate.
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A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
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An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
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To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
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To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
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To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
及物to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining
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To wash (down or out).
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To flow, pour.
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To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
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From Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from Anglo-Norman escluse (“sluice, floodgate”), from Late Latin exclusa (“extrusion, gate”), from Latin exclūsus, form of exclūdō (“to shut out, to exclude”) (English exclude). Cognate to Dutch sluis.
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