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RELATED WORDS : sluice down sluice valve

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Sluice has 1 sense

• sluice(n = noun.artifact) penstock, sluiceway - conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate; Array
is a kind of conduit
has parts: floodgate, head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate
Derived forms verb sluice₂, verb sluice₄, verb sluice₃, verb sluice₁

Verb Sluice has 4 senses

• sluice(v = verb.weather) sluice down - pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef"
is one way to pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream
Derived form noun sluice₁
Sample sentence:
It was Sluiceing all day long

• sluice(v = verb.change) flush - irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth"
is one way to douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse
Derived form noun sluice₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• sluice(v = verb.motion) Array - transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
is one way to transport
Derived form noun sluice₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

• sluice(v = verb.motion) Array - draw through a sluice; "sluice water"
is one way to draw, take out
Derived form noun sluice₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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THESAURUS

Sluice

aboideau, air lock, aqueduct, arroyo, avenue, baptize, bath, bathe, bed, blow out, blowhole, canal, channel, chute, cloaca, cloaca maxima, creek bed, culvert, debouch, deluge, dip, dock gate, donga, door, douche, douse, drain, drain out, drench, drown, dry bed, duck, dunk, egress, empty, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, find vent, float, flood, flood-hatch, floodgate, flow, flow on, flow out, flume, flush, flush out, gargle, gate, gulch, gully, gullyhole, gush, gush out, gutter, head gate, headchute, headrace, holystone, inundate, irrigate, irrigation ditch, jet, kennel, lather, launder, lave, lock, lock gate, loophole, mop, mop up, nullah, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outflow, outgate, outgo, outlet, outpour, penstock, piscina, pore, port, pour, pour on, pour out, race, rain, rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, river bed, riverway, roll, run out, runnel, sally port, scour, scrub, scrub up, scupper, sewer, shampoo, shower, sink, sluice gate, sluice out, soak, soap, sough, spew out, spillbox, spillway, spiracle, sponge, spout, spout out, spurt, stream, stream bed, streamway, submerge, sump, surge, swab, swamp, swash, swash channel, syringe, tailrace, tap, tide gate, toivel, tub, vent, ventage, venthole, vomit forth, vomitory, wadi, wash, wash out, wash up, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, water gate, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, way out, weir, well, well out, whelm

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Limit

N limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation, termination, terminus, stint, frontier, precinct, marches, backwoods, boundary line, landmark, line of demarcation, line of circumvallation, pillars of Hercules, Rubicon, turning point, ne plus ultra, sluice, floodgate, definite, conterminate, conterminable, terminal, frontier, bordering, thus far, thus far and no further, stick to the reservation, go beyond the pale, Special.

Egress

N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.

River

N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.

Conduit

N conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre, arroyo, adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile, flume, ingate, runner, lock-weir, tedge, vena, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, piscina, pipe, funnel, tunnel, water pipe, waste pipe, emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, adjutage, ajutage, hose, gargoyle, gurgoyle, penstock, weir, flood gate, water gate, sluice, lock, valve, rose, waterworks, pipeline, vascular.

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