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"ref": "1861, Thomas Hughes, chapter XIII, in Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan & Co.",
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"ref": "1993, Paul Theroux, Millroy the Magician, page 61",
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"ref": "2000, Laurel E. Fay, chapter 7, in Shostakovich: A Life, Oxford University Press, page 120",
"text": "Many years later, in 1953, Shostakovich summarized his dissatisfactions with the competition more bluntly: \"Rimsky-Korsakov groomed, waved, and sluiced Musorgsky with eau de cologne. My orchestration is crude, in keeping with Musorgsky.\"",
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"ref": "1910, Lord Dunsany, “Bethmoora”, in A Dreamer's Tales, London: George Allen & Sons, page 68",
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"ref": "1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, Penguin Canada, published 1985, page 60",
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"ref": "1932, Robinson Jeffers, “Thurso's Landing”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, page 311",
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},
{
"ref": "1934, George Orwell, chapter 23, in Burmese Days",
"text": "Out of sight of the houses he took off his clothes and let the rain sluice down on his bare body.",
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{
"ref": "1980, Peter De Vries, chapter 12, in Consenting Adults, or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Penguin, pages 185–6",
"text": "these are often my thoughts as my partner or my vis-a-vis spoons a berry into her mouth and I imagine it—see and hear it being chewed, the red juice running from its bursting pulp over her tongue, mingling with her saliva, slipping through the crevices between her teeth before sluicing down her throat and into her bloodstream.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1986, Tanith Lee, Delirium's Mistress, New York: Daw Books, Book Two, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 240",
"text": "The huge things which had already careered into flight, they were enormous slothful sacks of billowing skin, and where the light sluiced over their bodies, they glimmered acid-blue and bronze.",
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"sense": "passage for water",
"word": "水閘"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shuǐzhá",
"sense": "passage for water",
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "passage for water",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "passage for water",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "passage for water",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "passage for water",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "passage for water",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "passage for water",
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "passage for water",
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "passage for water",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "passage for water",
"word": "sluis"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "passage for water",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "passage for water",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scolmatore"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "passage for water",
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],
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "passage for water",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "drenaggio"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "passage for water",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "passage for water",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "passage for water",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "passage for water",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "passage for water",
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"masculine"
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{
"alt": "すいもん",
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"sense": "passage for water",
"word": "水門"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"sense": "passage for water",
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{
"code": "enm",
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{
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"sense": "passage for water",
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "passage for water",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "passage for water",
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"feminine"
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{
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"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "passage for water",
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"feminine"
],
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "passage for water",
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"feminine"
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{
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"sense": "passage for water",
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"code": "sh",
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"feminine"
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"code": "sh",
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"english": "lock",
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"sense": "passage for water",
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"feminine"
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"code": "es",
"english": "barrier",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "passage for water",
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"feminine"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "passage for water",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "compuerta (sluicegate)"
},
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
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"sense": "passage for water",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "шлюз"
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{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "passage for water",
"word": "klut"
}
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"sluice"
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"sense": "washing in mining",
"word": "pan"
}
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"word": "sluice one's bolt"
},
{
"word": "sluice out"
}
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"2": "enm",
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"name": "inh"
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"3": "",
"4": "I shut out, I exclude"
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"form": "sluices",
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"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "sluicing",
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"glosses": [
"To emit by, or as by, flood gates."
],
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"(transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates."
],
"tags": [
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"transitive"
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},
{
"categories": [
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"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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{
"ref": "1855, William Howitt, Land, Labour and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria",
"text": "Nine - mile Creek has been dug out again and again , and has been sluiced three times",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1861, Thomas Hughes, chapter XIII, in Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan & Co.",
"text": "[…] he dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1993, Paul Theroux, Millroy the Magician, page 61",
"text": "Millroy often described his kidneys—how he flushed them out. His lungs—the way he hyperventilated them. His heart—how he got it pumping, sluicing its gates and chambers.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Laurel E. Fay, chapter 7, in Shostakovich: A Life, Oxford University Press, page 120",
"text": "Many years later, in 1953, Shostakovich summarized his dissatisfactions with the competition more bluntly: \"Rimsky-Korsakov groomed, waved, and sluiced Musorgsky with eau de cologne. My orchestration is crude, in keeping with Musorgsky.\"",
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],
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"transitive"
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},
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"text": "to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining",
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],
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"ref": "1910, Lord Dunsany, “Bethmoora”, in A Dreamer's Tales, London: George Allen & Sons, page 68",
"text": "And now men with a hose have come and are sluicing out the streets.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, Penguin Canada, published 1985, page 60",
"text": "He also organized a bucket brigade for sluicing down the decks.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To wash (down or out)."
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"(transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out)."
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"ref": "1932, Robinson Jeffers, “Thurso's Landing”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, page 311",
"text": "In the trough behind the white wave / Helen shook her dark head, the water sluiced from her shoulders / And rose-tipped breasts.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1934, George Orwell, chapter 23, in Burmese Days",
"text": "Out of sight of the houses he took off his clothes and let the rain sluice down on his bare body.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1980, Peter De Vries, chapter 12, in Consenting Adults, or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Penguin, pages 185–6",
"text": "these are often my thoughts as my partner or my vis-a-vis spoons a berry into her mouth and I imagine it—see and hear it being chewed, the red juice running from its bursting pulp over her tongue, mingling with her saliva, slipping through the crevices between her teeth before sluicing down her throat and into her bloodstream.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1986, Tanith Lee, Delirium's Mistress, New York: Daw Books, Book Two, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 240",
"text": "The huge things which had already careered into flight, they were enormous slothful sacks of billowing skin, and where the light sluiced over their bodies, they glimmered acid-blue and bronze.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To flow, pour."
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],
[
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"pour"
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],
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"(intransitive) To flow, pour."
],
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"intransitive"
]
},
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"en:Linguistics"
],
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"To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing."
],
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"linguistics",
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[
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"(linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing."
],
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"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
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},
{
"ipa": "/sljuːs/",
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]
},
{
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},
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to emit by flood gates",
"word": "juoksuttaa tulvaluukkujen kautta"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to emit by flood gates",
"word": "embalsar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "oblivam",
"sense": "to wet copiously",
"word": "обливам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to wet copiously",
"word": "tulvittaa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to wet copiously",
"word": "allagare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to wet copiously",
"word": "inondare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to wet copiously",
"word": "intridere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to wet copiously",
"word": "bagnare"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "promivam",
"sense": "to wash in water running through a sluice",
"word": "промивам"
},
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],
"word": "rännittää"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to wash in water running through a sluice",
"word": "lavare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to wash in water running through a sluice",
"word": "horoi tuakirikiri"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to wash in water running through a sluice",
"word": "lavar en agua corriente"
}
],
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"sluice"
],
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}
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