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Definition: FLOOD GATE |
FLOOD GATE1. A gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A swinging gate provided on open ditches, when fences must cross them to serve as a passage for livestock. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conduit | Noun: conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge; vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe. (tube); funnel; tunnel. (passage); water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FLOOD GATE |
| English words defined with "FLOOD GATE": Reigle. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. Flood gate for rice trunk. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flood gate | 6 |
flood gate new orleans | 5 |
control flood gate | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLOOD GATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bevaegelig barriere tvaers over en groeft (water gate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sluisdeur (gate, hydraulic gate), landhek (water gate), deurconstructie (gate, hydraulic gate), deur (door). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sulkuportti (lockgate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vanne (floodgate), barrière mobile en travers d'un fossé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wasserschranke (water gate), Schuetze (gate, hydraulic gate, marksman, shooter, sluice), bewegliches Gatter (water gate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κινητή εγκαρσία εσχάρα εντός τάφρου (water gate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zsilip (penstock, sluice, sluice gate, sluice valve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | saracinesca (persian blind, portcullis, rolling shutter), paratoia (gate, hydraulic gate), chiusa (closing, closure, end, lock, paddle, penstock, sluice, Weir). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 水門 (sluice gate, water gate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | すいも" (sluice gate, water gate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | giat thooillee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oodflay ategay corrediça de saída (water gate), comporta (bibb, clow, floodgate, hatch, lock, lock-gate, penstock, sluice, sluicegate, stopper, tide-gate, water-gate). (various references) zãgaz (bank, barrier, breakwater, dam, dike, embankment, groin, levee, pier, Weir), stãvilar (dam, lock, penstock, pier, sluice, Weir), poartã de ecluzã (lock gate, paddle), ecluzã (lock, sluice, sluice gate). (various references) compuerta (floodgate, gate, penstock, sluice, sluicegate, watergate), barrera de zanja (water gate). (various references) svängbar grind över dike (water gate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: floodgate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-g-l-o-o-t" | |
-1 letter: gatefold. | |
-2 letters: fagoted, floated, flotage, footage, footled, gloated. | |
-3 letters: dotage, foaled, fodgel, foetal, folate, fooled, footed, footle, galoot, gaoled, gelato, goaled, golfed, goofed, legato, loafed, lofted, looted, togaed, toledo, tooled. | |
-4 letters: afoot, aglet, aloft, aloof, dealt, defat, defog, delft, delta, dotal, fadge, fagot, fated, fetal, float, flood, flota, gated, glade, gloat, godet, lated, lodge. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-g-l-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: floodgates. | |
+4 letters: waterflooding. | |
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