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.
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Floodgate
//ˈflʌdˌɡeɪt//
Synonyms for "floodgate" (52 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (26)
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28 translations across 12 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- بوابة ايقاف الفيضان noun (gate or valve)
Bulgarian
2 entries- шибър noun (gate or valve)
- шлюз noun (gate or valve)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 防洪閘 /防洪闸 noun (gate or valve)
Esperanto
1 entries- kluzo noun (gate or valve)
Finnish
2 entries- portti noun (anything that controls or limits an outpouring)
- tulvaluukku noun (gate or valve)
French
1 entries- vanne noun (gate or valve)
German
4 entries- Schieber noun (gate or valve)
- Schleuse noun (gate or valve)
- Schleusentor noun (gate or valve)
- Tür und Tor noun (anything that controls or limits an outpouring)
Hungarian
1 entries- zsilip noun (gate or valve)
Irish
4 entries- bualchomhla noun (gate or valve)
- comhla loic noun (gate or valve)
- comhla uisce noun (gate or valve)
- haiste noun (gate or valve)
Italian
4 entries- canale di scarico noun (gate or valve)
- chiusa noun (gate or valve)
- chiusa noun (anything that controls or limits an outpouring)
- paratoia noun (gate or valve)
Middle English
2 entries- flodegate noun (gate or valve)
- flodegate noun (anything that controls or limits an outpouring)
Polish
2 entries- śluza noun (gate or valve)
- śluza noun (anything that controls or limits an outpouring)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
“The floodgates for advertising on cable are down,” says Michael Dann, a leading consultant on cable television.
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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
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The accuſation conſiſting of thoſe three articles, was moſt true: your doctrine was ſcādalous, it offred much offence, being generally diſtaſted; and was erroneous, being detected to be the floodgate of Traitors ſtaiers, looſing in ſome ſuppoſititious doctrines, and many blaſphemous arrogating much to man, derogating much from God.
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