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Definition: SLUICE GATE |
SLUICE GATE1. The sliding gate of a sluice. |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A gate which can be raised or lowered by sliding in vertical guides. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The sliding gate of a sluice. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SLUICE GATE |
| English words defined with "SLUICE GATE": Batardeau. (references) |
| 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 |
sluice gate | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SLUICE GATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | portë shluze. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шлюзна врата, пропускателен отвор. (various references) | |
Czech | vrata splavu (sluice). (various references) | |
Danish | stigbord (discharge sluice, penstock, slide gate, sluice, tide lock), murventil (penstock). (various references) | |
Dutch | schuifafsluiter (penstock), verticale schuif met spindel (penstock, slide gate). (various references) | |
Finnish | tasoluukku (penstock, slide gate), liukuluukku (penstock, slide gate). (various references) | |
French | vanne murale, vanne glissante (slide gate), vanne glissières (slide gate). (various references) | |
German | schleusentor (floodgate, lock gate), Zugschieber (penstock), Gleitschuetz (penstock, slide gate), Absperrschieber (penstock, valve). (various references) | |
Greek | ολισθαίνων θυρόφραγμα (penstock, slide gate), δικλίδα υδατοφράκτη. (various references) | |
Hebrew | סכר (barrage, dam, floodgate, lock, sluice). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsilip (flood gate, penstock, sluice, sluice valve). (various references) | |
Italian | paratoia di chiusura (penstock), paratoia a scorrimento (penstock, slide gate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 水門 (flood gate, water gate). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいも" (flood gate, water gate). (various references) | |
Manx | cooylley (drop, hatch, leaf of table, shutter, stopcock, valve, wing, wing of door), beeal-yiat. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uiceslay ategay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | comporta de corrediça (penstock, slide gate), comporta basculante (bascule gate, penstock, slide gate). (various references) | |
Romanian | ecluzã (flood gate, lock, sluice). (various references) | |
Russian | шлюзные ворота (clow, gate, lock gate, lock-gate, sluice-gate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrata brane (lock gate). (various references) | |
Spanish | compuerta deslizante (penstock, slide gate), compuerta de esclusa (penstock). (various references) | |
Swedish | slussport (clow, lock gate, penstock, sluice-gate, water gate), glidlucka (penstock, slide gate). (various references) | |
Turkish | bent kapağı (floodgate, sluice). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-l-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: egalites, elegiacs, gestical, legacies, leucites. | |
-3 letters: aiglets, augites, cagiest, celesta, cutesie, eaglets, egalite, elastic, elegiac, elegist, elegits, eluates, escuage, euclase, gelates, gluiest, laciest, latices, leagues, legates, leucite, ligates, luetics, scutage, sectile, segetal, sulcate, telegas, ugliest. | |
-4 letters: aculei, acutes, ageist, aglets, aiglet, atelic, augite, castle, caules, caulis, clause, cleats, cuesta, culets, cuties, cutlas, eagles. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-l-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: gesticulate. | |
+2 letters: autecologies, gesticulated, gesticulates. | |
+3 letters: gesticulative, subcollegiate. | |
+5 letters: electrosurgical, overspeculating. | |
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