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Yritit hakea fraasilla, joka sisältää useita sanoja. Parempien hakutulosten saamiseksi kokeile hakea sanoja erikseen: sluice, gate

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Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. A portal which may be opened or closed to allow or prevent the passage of water through a man-made channel.
  2. (figuratively) Something which restrains or releases a substantial volume—a flood—of activity, emotion, etc.

Esimerkit

  • "Has the miller a strong high dam to his pond, and a good stout sluice-gate at the end?"
  • He also built two dams and a sluice gate that frees dammed water to operate a 14-foot undershot waterwheel.
  • Golam Kibria was found floating through a sluice gate in a nearby sewer Monday morning, bringing the death toll to 74.
  • [A]nd then when the fountain of her love was opened, and the sluice gate of her displeasure removed, she told him how she would pray for him till he came back safe from the wars.
  • I could see her brave spirit quelling the riot of her emotions, shutting down the sluice-gate of tears.
  • Mr. Betancourt is the sluice gate for communism in Venezuela.
  • I must have opened up some sluice gate inside her and everything that had been dammed up came spilling out.
  • The Village Voice put its sassiest junior movie critic (me) on the Meyer beat, opening the sluice gate to torrents of mannered enthusiasm.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkosluice gates

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