floodgate

/fluhd-geyt/US // ˈflʌdˌgeɪt //UK // (ˈflʌdˌɡeɪt) //

水门,水闸,水门事件,洪水门

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : Civil Engineering. a gate designed to regulate the flow of water.
- : anything serving to control the indiscriminate flow or passage of something.

The earth-shattering decision opens the floodgates for cases that will challenge a central tenet of the 115-year-old athletic association — that college athletes are amateurs and should not be paid.
We’re at this moment where the floodgates opened and now everything is possible again.
The campaign will “open the floodgates” of union action, Trumka said.
If Google reneges on its threat to shut down search and pays to link to publishers, it will be opening up a floodgate that could result in a cascade of similar legislation around the world.
“Once we got Walmart in, that’s when the floodgates started to open,” Beale said.
If these happen to be small, let those who sit near them beware; the smaller the floodgate, the smarter will be the stream.
The inventor of the damper register opened a floodgate to such aliquot re-enforcement as can be got in no other way.
Meeting his gaze, she unbarred a floodgate of happy tenderness in her eyes.
The dam and floodgate were just beyond the southwestern bastion and the old embankment of the dam can still be traced.
The pond or reservoir above the floodgate is separated from the weir by a stone wall on the left, or south-west side.