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Floodgate

//ˈflʌdˌɡeɪt// name, noun

Proper Noun

1
A series of allegations of corruption, mismanagement, and irregularities in flood control projects in the Philippines during and before the administration of President Bongbong Marcos. Philippine, neologism

Noun

1
An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.
"At the start of the Second World War floodgates would be installed at the ends of the under-Thames sections of the Bakerloo and Northern lines to save them from inundation should bombs damage the riverbed."
2
regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice wordnet
3
Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion, etc. figuratively
"“The floodgates for advertising on cable are down,” says Michael Dann, a leading consultant on cable television."
4
something that restrains a flood or outpouring wordnet
5
A stream that passes through a floodgate; a torrent. obsolete
"Out of her gored wound the cruell ſteel / He lightly ſnatcht, and did the floodgate ſtop / VVith his faire garment: then gan ſoftly feel her feeble pulſe, to proue if any drop / Of liuing blood yet in her veynes did hop"

Etymology 1

From Middle English flodegate, flodgate, flodeyate, floodȝate, flodȝete, equivalent to flood + gate.

Etymology 2

From floodgate.

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