SLUICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sluice mean? 

• SLUICE (noun)
  The noun SLUICE has 1 sense:

1. conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate

  Familiarity information: SLUICE used as a noun is very rare.

• SLUICE (verb)
  The verb SLUICE has 4 senses:

1. pour as if from a sluice

2. irrigate with water from a sluice

3. transport in or send down a sluice

4. draw through a sluice

  Familiarity information: SLUICE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLUICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

penstock; sluice; sluiceway

Hypernyms ("sluice" is a kind of...):

conduit (a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass)

Meronyms (parts of "sluice"):

floodgate; head gate; penstock; sluice valve; sluicegate; water gate (regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice)

Derivation:

sluice (irrigate with water from a sluice)

sluice (draw through a sluice)

sluice (transport in or send down a sluice)

sluice (pour as if from a sluice)

• SLUICE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sluice    ... he / she / it sluices   
Past simple: sluiced   
Past participle: sluiced   
-ing form: sluicing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pour as if from a sluice

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

sluice; sluice down

Context example:

An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef

Hypernyms (to "sluice" is one way to...):

pelt; pour; rain buckets; rain cats and dogs; stream (rain heavily)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sentence example:

It was sluiceing all day long

Derivation:

sluice (conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Irrigate with water from a sluice

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

flush; sluice

Context example:

sluice the earth

Hypernyms (to "sluice" is one way to...):

douse; dowse; drench; soak; sop; souse (cover with liquid; pour liquid onto)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sluice (conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Transport in or send down a sluice

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

sluice logs

Hypernyms (to "sluice" is one way to...):

transport (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sluice (conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Draw through a sluice

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

sluice water

Hypernyms (to "sluice" is one way to...):

draw; take out (take liquid out of a container or well)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sluice (conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate)

 Context examples 

He drank enormous quantities of water, but so great was the heat of the day and of his exertions, that the water sluiced through the interstices of his flesh and out at all his pores.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A sailor, from time to time and quite methodically, as a matter of routine, dropped a canvas bucket into the ocean at the end of a rope, hauled it in hand under hand, and sluiced its contents over the prostrate man.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The pool itself, muddy and discolored from the sluice boxes, effectually hid what it contained, and it contained John Thornton; for Buck followed his trace into the water, from which no trace led away.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)