sluice
/sloos/US // slus //UK // (sluːs) //
闸门,闸口,水闸,闸阀
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n.名词 noun
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- : an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- : the body of water held back or controlled by a sluice gate.
- : any contrivance for regulating a flow from or into a receptacle.
- : a channel, especially one carrying off surplus water; drain.
- : a stream of surplus water.
- : an artificial stream or channel of water for moving solid matter: a lumbering sluice.
- : Also called sluice box .Mining. a long, sloping trough or the like, with grooves on the bottom, into which water is directed to separate gold from gravel or sand.
v.有主动词 verb
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sluiced, sluic·ing.
- : to let out by or as if by opening a sluice.
- : to drain by or as if by opening a sluice.
- : to open a sluice upon.
- : to flush or cleanse with a rush of water: to sluice the decks of a boat.
- : Mining. to wash in a sluice.
- : to send down a sluiceway.
v.无主动词 verb
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sluiced, sluic·ing.
- : to flow or pour through or as if through a sluice.
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Examples
Chef Garcelon and several members of the kitchen staff are standing around, watching the honey sluice out of the centrifuge.
They had aided in opening the sluice-ways of a torrent which was now sweeping every thing before it.
They died because they refused to open those sluice-ways of blood which the people demanded.
He finished his strictly utilitarian household labor and went off up the flat to the sluice boxes.
In a few minutes Uncle Will released him and sent him back to help Lucky at the sluice.
Once I saw a catfish, gasping for air at the surface of water that had been muddied by the opening of a sluice-way in a dam.
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