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water gate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun water gate has 1 sense
- water gate(n = noun.artifact) floodgate, head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate - regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice; Array is a kind of regulator
is a part of penstock, sluice, sluiceway
CIDE DICTIONARY
water gate,
A gate, or valve, by which a flow of water is permitted, prevented, or regulated. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
water gate
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, nullah, penstock, race, river bed, riverway, runnel, sluice, sluice gate, spillbox, spillway, stream bed, streamway, swash, swash channel, tailrace, tide gate, wadi, water carrier, water channel, water furrow, water gap, watercourse, waterway, waterworks, weirROGET THESAURUS
water gate
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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