sluice

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — At leaſt, I'm ſure I can fiſh it out of her. She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets;—'Tis but ſetting her Mill agoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.
  4. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
  5. A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
  6. An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
动词 v.
  1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates. rare,transitive
    — 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.
  2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice transitive
    — Nine - mile Creek has been dug out again and again , and has been sluiced three times
  3. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice. transitive
    — to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining
  4. To wash (down or out). broadly,transitive
    — […] 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
  5. To flow, pour. intransitive
    — In the trough behind the white wave / Helen shook her dark head, the water sluiced from her shoulders / And rose-tipped breasts.
  6. To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

词形变化

sluices plural sluices present,singular,third-person sluicing participle,present sluiced participle,past sluiced past

词汇关系

衍生词
Seaton Sluice sluice gate sluiceless sluicelike sluicery sluice valve sluiceway sluicy sluiceable sluice one's bolt sluice out sluicer unsluice
并列词
dam lock weir

词源

词源 1
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 (“to shut out, to exclude”) (English exclude). Cognate to Dutch sluis.
词源 2
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 (“to shut out, to exclude”) (English exclude). Cognate to Dutch sluis.
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