sluice

sluice

1. laskukanava

2. sulku, sulkuportti

Liittyvät sanat: sluice gate

Synonyymisanakirja

sluice

putki, sähköputki, kouru, laskukanava, ränni, kanava, laskuoja, tulokanava, kastella läpimäräksi, valella, kastella, kastaa, huuhtoa, laskea, huuhdella, huuhtoutua, nostaa, sataa kaatamalla, sataa kuin saavista kaatamalla, sataa kuin esterin perseestä, sataa äkäisiä ämmiä äkeet selässä.

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Englannin sanakirja

sluice (englanti > suomi)

1. sulku

2. juoksuttaa tulvaluukkujen kautta">juoksuttaa tulvaluukkujen kautta

3. tulvittaa

4. rännittää esp. of gold washing

sluice englanniksi

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

2. A water gate or floodgate

3. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.

4. (rfdate) (MW1913Abbr)

Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.

This home familiarity (..) opens the sluices of sensibility.

5. The stream flowing through a flood gate.

6. puhekieltä A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.

7. puhekieltä An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

8. puhekieltä To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

9. (RQ:Milton Lost), lines 700-704,

Nigh on the plain, in many cells prepared, / That underneath had veins of liquid fire / Sluiced from the lake, a second multitude / With wondrous art founded the massy ore, / Severing each kind, and scummed the bullion-dross.

10. puhekieltä To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice

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11. 1861, (w), (w), London: Macmillan & Co., Chapter XIII, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26851/pg26851-images.html

(..) he dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.

12. 1993, (w), (w), p. 61,

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.

13. 2000, Laurel E. Fay, Shostakovich: A Life, Oxford University Press, Chapter 7, p. 120,

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."

14. puhekieltä To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.

to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining

15. puhekieltä (more generally) To wash (down or out).

16. 1597, (w), w:Richard II (play)|Richard II, Act I, Scene 1, http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=richard2&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl

(..) 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

17. 1910, w:Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany|Lord Dunsany, "Bethmoora" in (w), London: George Allen & Sons, p. 68, https://archive.org/details/dreamerstales00dunsuoft

And now men with a hose have come and are sluicing out the streets.

18. 1977, (w), (w), Penguin Canada, 1985, p. 60,

He also organized a bucket brigade for sluicing down the decks.

19. puhekieltä To flow, pour.

20. 1932, (w), "Thurso's Landing" in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, p. 311, https://archive.org/details/selectedpoetryof009002mbp

In the trough behind the white wave / Helen shook her dark head, the water sluiced from her shoulders / And rose-tipped breasts.

21. 1934, (w), (w), Chapter 23, http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200051h.html

Out of sight of the houses he took off his clothes and let the rain sluice down on his bare body.

22. 1980, (w), Consenting Adults, or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Penguin, Chapter Twelve, pp. 185-6,

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.

23. 1986, (w), (w), New York: Daw Books, Book Two, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 240,

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.

24. puhekieltä To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See (m).

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