"sluicing" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: sluicings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sluicing (plural sluicings)
  1. The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching. Translations (act of sluicing): kastelu (Finnish), rännitys [mining, business] (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-sluicing-en-noun-jCfcmRV9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 43 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 50 38 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 52 39 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 58 36 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 44 46 9 Disambiguation of 'act of sluicing': 100 0
  2. (linguistics) A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why". Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-sluicing-en-noun-ycErHK-r Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Terms with Finnish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 43 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 44 46 9 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} sluicing
  1. present participle and gerund of sluice Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: sluice
    Sense id: en-sluicing-en-verb-Dav8ZgbI

Inflected forms

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