| slovo | definícia |
sluice
(encz) | sluice,propust n: Zdeněk Brož |
sluice
(encz) | sluice,zdymadlo Zdeněk Brož |
Sluice
(gcide) | Sluice \Sluice\, n. [OF. escluse, F. ['e]cluse, LL. exclusa,
sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D.
sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude.]
1. An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or
gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the
flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
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2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows;
a source of supply.
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Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.
--Harte.
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This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of
sensibility. --I. Taylor.
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3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
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4. (Mining) A long box or trough through which water flows,
-- used for washing auriferous earth.
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Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice.
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Sluice
(gcide) | Sluice \Sluice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sluicing.]
1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] --Milton.
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2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice
meadows. --Howitt.
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He dried his neck and face, which he had been
sluicing with cold water. --De Quincey.
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3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a
sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
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sluice
(wn) | sluice
n 1: conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a
sluicegate [syn: sluice, sluiceway, penstock]
v 1: pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced
across the barrier reef" [syn: sluice, sluice down]
2: irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" [syn:
sluice, flush]
3: transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
4: draw through a sluice; "sluice water" |
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sluice
(encz) | sluice,propust n: Zdeněk Brožsluice,zdymadlo Zdeněk Brož |
sluice down
(encz) | sluice down, v: |
sluice valve
(encz) | sluice valve, n: |
sluiced
(encz) | sluiced,vypustil stavidlem Zdeněk Brož |
sluicegate
(encz) | sluicegate, n: |
sluiceway
(encz) | sluiceway, n: |
Sluice gate
(gcide) | Sluice \Sluice\, n. [OF. escluse, F. ['e]cluse, LL. exclusa,
sclusa, from L. excludere, exclusum, to shut out: cf. D.
sluis sluice, from the Old French. See Exclude.]
1. An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or
gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the
flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
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2. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows;
a source of supply.
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Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.
--Harte.
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This home familiarity . . . opens the sluices of
sensibility. --I. Taylor.
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3. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
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4. (Mining) A long box or trough through which water flows,
-- used for washing auriferous earth.
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Sluice gate, the sliding gate of a sluice.
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Sluiced
(gcide) | Sluice \Sluice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sluicing.]
1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.] --Milton.
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2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice
meadows. --Howitt.
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He dried his neck and face, which he had been
sluicing with cold water. --De Quincey.
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3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a
sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
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Sluiceway
(gcide) | Sluiceway \Sluice"way`\, n.
An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice;
specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream,
so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some
convenient place of delivery.
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Unsluice
(gcide) | Unsluice \Un*sluice"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + sluice.]
To sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of; to let flow; to
discharge. --Dryden.
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sluice
(wn) | sluice
n 1: conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a
sluicegate [syn: sluice, sluiceway, penstock]
v 1: pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced
across the barrier reef" [syn: sluice, sluice down]
2: irrigate with water from a sluice; "sluice the earth" [syn:
sluice, flush]
3: transport in or send down a sluice; "sluice logs"
4: draw through a sluice; "sluice water" |
sluice down
(wn) | sluice down
v 1: pour as if from a sluice; "An aggressive tide sluiced
across the barrier reef" [syn: sluice, sluice down] |
sluice valve
(wn) | sluice valve
n 1: regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the
rate of water flow through a sluice [syn: sluicegate,
sluice valve, floodgate, penstock, head gate,
water gate] |
sluicegate
(wn) | sluicegate
n 1: regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the
rate of water flow through a sluice [syn: sluicegate,
sluice valve, floodgate, penstock, head gate,
water gate] |
sluiceway
(wn) | sluiceway
n 1: conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a
sluicegate [syn: sluice, sluiceway, penstock] |
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