sluice.
/sloos/US // slus //UK // (sluːs) //
闸门,闸口,水闸,闸阀
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›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.verb · 有主动词
- 1.
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.
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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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