The dam's sluice gate broke and the water flooded several nearby towns.
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Sluice
//sluːs//
Synonyms for "sluice" (170 found)
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4 entriesTranslations
77 translations across 32 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- ջրարգելակ noun (passage for water)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- suvacaq noun (passage for water)
Belarusian
1 entries- шлюз noun (passage for water)
Bulgarian
3 entries- шлюз noun (passage for water)
- обливам verb (to wet copiously)
- промивам verb (to wash in water running through a sluice)
Catalan
1 entries- àbac noun (passage for water)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 水閘 /水闸 noun (passage for water)
Czech
2 entries- propust noun (passage for water)
- šlajsna noun (passage for water)
Dutch
1 entries- sluis noun (passage for water)
Esperanto
2 entries- kluzo noun (passage for water)
- kluzopordo noun (passage for water)
Finnish
4 entries- portti noun (passage for water)
- ränni noun (passage for water)
- sulku noun (passage for water)
- juoksuttaa tulvaluukkujen kautta verb (to emit by flood gates)
French
1 entries- écluse noun (passage for water)
German
3 entries- Schleuse noun (passage for water)
- Schleusentor noun (passage for water)
- Siel noun (passage for water)
Greek
1 entries- υδατοφράκτης noun (passage for water)
Hungarian
1 entries- zsilip noun (passage for water)
Icelandic
1 entries- gáttarstífla noun (passage for water)
Indonesian
1 entries- sluis noun (passage for water)
Italian
4 entries- canale artificiale noun (passage for water)
- canale di scarico noun (passage for water)
- cataratta noun (passage for water)
- cateratta noun (passage for water)
Japanese
1 entries- 水門 noun (passage for water)
Macedonian
1 entries- засун noun (passage for water)
Middle English
1 entries- scluse noun (passage for water)
Māori
1 entries- horoi tuakirikiri verb (to wash in water running through a sluice)
Norwegian
1 entries- sluse noun (passage for water)
Polish
4 entries- śluza noun (passage for water)
- przemywać verb (to wash in water running through a sluice)
- przemyć verb (to wash in water running through a sluice)
- płukać verb (to wash in water running through a sluice)
Portuguese
1 entries- eclusa noun (passage for water)
Romanian
2 entries- deschizatura noun (passage for water)
- ecluza noun (passage for water)
Russian
1 entries- шлюз noun (passage for water)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- brana noun (passage for water)
- jaz noun (passage for water)
- splavnica noun (passage for water)
- ustava noun (passage for water)
Spanish
4 entries- aguatocho noun (passage for water)
- compuerta (sluicegate) noun (passage for water)
- esclusa noun (passage for water)
- presa noun (passage for water)
Swedish
1 entries- sluss noun (passage for water)
Ukrainian
1 entries- шлюз noun (passage for water)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cống noun (passage for water)
Volapük
1 entries- klut noun (passage for water)
Sample sentences
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Many of the world's largest sluice gates are in the Netherlands.
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With a sluice you can control the water.
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Many of the world's largest sluice gates are located in the Netherlands.
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