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Noun [English]

IPA: /sluːs/, /ˈslʉs/ [Northern-Ireland, Scotland], /sljuːs/ [obsolete] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sluice.wav Forms: sluices [plural]
Rhymes: -uːs Etymology: From Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from Anglo-Norman escluse (“sluice, floodgate”), from Late Latin exclusa (“extrusion, gate”), from Latin exclūsus, form of exclūdō (“I shut out, I exclude”) (English exclude). Cognate to Dutch sluis. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|sluse}} Middle English sluse, {{der|en|xno|escluse||sluice, floodgate}} Anglo-Norman escluse (“sluice, floodgate”), {{der|en|LL.|exclusa||extrusion, gate}} Late Latin exclusa (“extrusion, gate”), {{der|en|la|exclūsus}} Latin exclūsus, {{cog|nl|sluis}} Dutch sluis Head templates: {{en-noun}} sluice (plural sluices)
  1. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow. Categories (place): Bodies of water Translations (passage for water): ջրարգելակ (ǰrargelak) (Armenian), шлюз (šljuz) [masculine] (Belarusian), шлюз (šljuz) [masculine] (Bulgarian), àbac [masculine] (Catalan), 水閘 (Chinese Mandarin), 水闸 (shuǐzhá) (Chinese Mandarin), propust [feminine] (Czech), šlajsna [feminine, slang] (Czech), sluis [feminine] (Dutch), kluzo (Esperanto), kluzopordo (Esperanto), sulku (Finnish), portti (Finnish), ränni (Finnish), écluse [feminine] (French), Schleuse [feminine] (German), Schleusentor [neuter] (German), Siel [neuter] (German), υδατοφράκτης (ydatofráktis) [masculine] (Greek), zsilip (Hungarian), gáttarstífla [feminine] (Icelandic), sluis (Indonesian), chiusa [feminine] (Italian), scolmatore [masculine] (Italian), canale di scarico [masculine] (Italian), drenaggio [masculine] (Italian), cateratta [feminine] (Italian), cataratta [feminine] (Italian), paratoia [feminine] (Italian), saracinesca [feminine] (Italian), canale artificiale [masculine] (Italian), 水門 (suimon) (alt: すいもん) (Japanese), засун (zasun) [masculine] (Macedonian), scluse (Middle English), sluse [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian), śluza [feminine] (Polish), eclusa [feminine] (Portuguese), ecluza [feminine] (Romanian), deschizatura [feminine] (Romanian), шлюз (šljuz) [masculine] (Russian), устава [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), сплавница [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), брана [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), јаз [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ustava [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), splavnica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), brana [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), jaz [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), esclusa (english: lock) [feminine] (Spanish), presa (english: barrier) [feminine] (Spanish), compuerta (sluicegate) [feminine] (Spanish), aguatocho [masculine] (Spanish), шлюз (šljuz) [masculine] (Ukrainian), cống (Vietnamese), klut (Volapük)
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  2. A water gate or floodgate. Categories (topical): Buildings and structures
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  3. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
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  4. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
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  5. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth. Categories (topical): Mining Categories (place): Bodies of water
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  6. (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing. Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-sluice-en-noun-uirJiXAH Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Seaton Sluice, sluice gate, sluiceway Coordinate_terms: dam, lock, weir

Verb [English]

IPA: /sluːs/, /ˈslʉs/ [Northern-Ireland, Scotland], /sljuːs/ [obsolete] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sluice.wav Forms: sluices [present, singular, third-person], sluicing [participle, present], sluiced [participle, past], sluiced [past]
Rhymes: -uːs Etymology: From Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from Anglo-Norman escluse (“sluice, floodgate”), from Late Latin exclusa (“extrusion, gate”), from Latin exclūsus, form of exclūdō (“I shut out, I exclude”) (English exclude). Cognate to Dutch sluis. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|sluse}} Middle English sluse, {{der|en|xno|escluse||sluice, floodgate}} Anglo-Norman escluse (“sluice, floodgate”), {{der|en|LL.|exclusa||extrusion, gate}} Late Latin exclusa (“extrusion, gate”), {{der|en|la|exclūsus}} Latin exclūsus, {{cog|nl|sluis}} Dutch sluis Head templates: {{en-verb}} sluice (third-person singular simple present sluices, present participle sluicing, simple past and past participle sluiced)
  1. (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates. Tags: rare, transitive Categories (place): Bodies of water Translations (to emit by flood gates): juoksuttaa tulvaluukkujen kautta (Finnish), embalsar (Spanish)
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  2. (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice Tags: transitive Categories (place): Bodies of water Translations (to wet copiously): обливам (oblivam) (Bulgarian), tulvittaa (Finnish), allagare (Italian), inondare (Italian), intridere (Italian), bagnare (Italian)
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  3. (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice. Tags: transitive Categories (place): Bodies of water Coordinate_terms (washing in mining): pan Translations (to wash in water running through a sluice): промивам (promivam) (Bulgarian), rännittää [especially] (Finnish), lavare (Italian), horoi tuakirikiri (Maori), lavar en agua corriente (Spanish)
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  4. (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out). Tags: broadly, transitive
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  5. (intransitive) To flow, pour. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-sluice-en-verb-YZn2-la5
  6. (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing. Categories (topical): Linguistics
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sluice one's bolt, sluice out

Inflected forms

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          "text": "In the trough behind the white wave / Helen shook her dark head, the water sluiced from her shoulders / And rose-tipped breasts.",
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          "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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      "word": "àbac"
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      "word": "水閘"
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      "sense": "passage for water",
      "word": "水闸"
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      "sense": "passage for water",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "passage for water",
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      "code": "eo",
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      "word": "kluzo"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "passage for water",
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      "sense": "passage for water",
      "word": "sulku"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "passage for water",
      "word": "portti"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "word": "ränni"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "passage for water",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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      "code": "de",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "Schleuse"
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      "code": "de",
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      "word": "Siel"
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "passage for water",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "υδατοφράκτης"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "passage for water",
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      "code": "is",
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      "sense": "passage for water",
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
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      "word": "sluis"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "passage for water",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "passage for water",
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      "word": "scolmatore"
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      "code": "it",
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      "code": "it",
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      "code": "it",
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      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "saracinesca"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "passage for water",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "canale artificiale"
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      "code": "enm",
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      "code": "no",
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      "code": "pl",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "sh",
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      "word": "jaz"
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      "english": "lock",
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      "sense": "passage for water",
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      "code": "es",
      "english": "barrier",
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      "code": "es",
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      "word": "compuerta (sluicegate)"
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      "code": "es",
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      "word": "aguatocho"
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      "code": "uk",
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      "sense": "passage for water",
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      "code": "vi",
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      "sense": "passage for water",
      "word": "cống"
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    "Terms with Japanese translations",
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    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
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          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 700–704:",
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        "To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene 1]:",
          "text": "[…] he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death, / Suggest his soon-believing adversaries, / And consequently, like a traitor coward, / Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To wash (down or out)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wash",
          "wash"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To flow, pour."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flow",
          "flow"
        ],
        [
          "pour",
          "pour"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To flow, pour."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "wh-question",
          "wh-question"
        ],
        [
          "sluicing",
          "sluicing#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/sluːs/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈslʉs/",
      "tags": [
        "Northern-Ireland",
        "Scotland"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/sljuːs/",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːs"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "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"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "raw_tags": [
        "of gold washing"
      ],
      "sense": "to wash in water running through a sluice",
      "tags": [
        "especially"
      ],
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "sluice"
  ],
  "word": "sluice"
}

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