sluice in English

noun
1
a sliding gate or other device for controlling the flow of water, especially one in a lock gate.
The sluice gate regulates the volume of water that strikes the wheel, and has to be judged with some care to prevent the mill stones from spinning too fast and vibrating too much.
2
an act of rinsing or showering with water.
a sluice with cold water
verb
1
wash or rinse freely with a stream or shower of water.
she sluiced her face in cold water
synonyms:wash (down)rinsecleancleanse
noun
verb

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1. Culvert and sluice block and sluice water.

2. McGill, take the sluice.

3. We opened the sluice and water poured in.

4. At last the sluice gates were lowered.

5. They sluice the streets down every morning.

6. City sweepers sluice down Telegraph Street every morning.

7. A filled-in marsh is a sluice for sediment.

8. We opened the sluice and the water poured in.

9. Out of the sluice springs an exhaustible supply of water.

10. Convenience sluice gate rapidly, energy, fluid resistance small, you can always operate.

11. The sanitation worker has to sluice the steps down every day.

12. A major practice is to sluice through pipelines to settling pond.

13. New sluice gates hold out the sea water at high tides.

14. The sluice gates are lifted by chains on old fashioned rollers.

15. 9 The sluice gates are lifted by chains on old fashioned rollers.

16. Then it washes down into the bed and travels through the sluice.

17. The defeat opened the sluice gates and venom flowed through in raging torrents.

18. Analyze load behavior of sluice with method of - dimension - linearity finite - element method.

19. The moment the prison doors closed behind Gandhi the sluice gates of violence opened.

20. It is only responsible for the reservoir itself and for the sluice gates, says Maxwell.

21. We had to sluice out the garage to get rid of the smell of petrol.

22. Sure enough, they've got half a dozen cradles and a big sluice box down in the canyon.

23. To make the switch from the lower to upper sluice, the outlet of Sand Lake was blocked off.

24. Water was conducted into the meadow via artificially constructed channels and elaborate sluice gates and allowed to flow across the grass.

25. The sluice receives the product in a charged manner via the charging door and allows it to pass into the oven.

26. Just opposite the point where the brook which runs past Lawrence's old home joins the Erewash itself stands a mill sluice.

27. One of their largest mines was at Las Medulas in León, where seven long aqueducts enabled them to sluice most of a large alluvial deposit.

28. Today, many valves Actuation application such as sluice gates and quarter turn valves, demand more from hydraulic and pneumatic actuators than ever before

29. He smiled without humour when Frankie sucked at the soap-filled cloth in order to sluice the taste of rancid beck-water from his mouth.

30. Inspect manage is perforative project whole process: Action, bid, coordinate schedule, budgetary final accounts, optimize a design, reduce excavate and concrete backfill, cancelled scouring sluice.

31. The air rings with water music as snowmelt and spring rains sluice down the Rize Valley, tumbling in broad cataracts from one brimful lake to another.

32. The average annual temperature is 16o C. Battir has a unique irrigation system that utilizes man-made terraces and a system of manually diverting water via sluice gates.

33. Nguyen Ngoc Cong, director of HCM City's Flood Prevention Centre, said this year the city would build six big sluice gates in Tan Thuan, Ben Nghe, Phu Xuan, Muong Chuoi, Cay Kho and Phu Dinh.

34. Dark! Dark! & this Atrophous fatigue, even as I slope for Sleep's quicker sluice, what or who sees a pen rebel w/ abject Lines late seen? (now comes the violent show, sour and foul Pentathalons grazing, dream raping me with executions / beefcake nightmare fraud - cavalry huntdown, extremism's last party

35. * Accordingly, India's design of sluice spillway at Baglihar with five outlets is regarded as appropriate and permissible under the Treaty for sediment control of the reservoir and evacuation of a large part of the design flood and being in conformity with the international practice and the state of the art.

36. This decision will help India to deal more effectively with the problems of sedimentation in its future projects as the NE has confirmed India's design of large bottom outlets (sluice spillway) as the most important technique to be employed in managing the high volumes of sediment which characterise the Himalayan Rivers.

37. * The NE after a detailed analysis of a data base of about 13000 dams from the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD)'s World Register of Dams to analyse the type of spillway, gated or ungated, and a historical review of construction of large orifice outlets as well as a consideration of ICOLD guidelines, held that the site conditions at Baglihar require a gated spillway, and also held that in view of the high flood discharges and heavy silt loads, India's design of gated spillways – both chute (surface) spillway and sluice spillways, as well as the number, size and location of their gates for the Baglihar dam complies with the design criteria set out in Annexure D of the Indus Waters Treaty.