sluice
Mane
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- 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.
- A water gate or floodgate.
- Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
- The stream flowing through a floodgate.
- A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
- An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
Pircarînî
Wekî (IPA) tê gotin
/sluːs/
Etîmolojî
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.
Bilêvkirina xwe baştir bikin
Dest bi hînbûna îngilîzî bi learnfeliz .
Axaftin û ezberkirina " sluice "û gelek peyv û hevokên din di îngilîzî de pratîk bikin.
Biçe rûpela qursa me ya îngilîzî
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