SLUICED

Definition: SLUICED

SLUICED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Sluice

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SLUICED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Crosswords: SLUICED

English words defined with "SLUICED": sluice, sluice down. (references)

Specialty definitions using "SLUICED": drum separator ♦ ground sluice. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. During the night the wind has blown the logs in the boom up Long Pond, away from the dam through which they must be sluiced. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"SLUICED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 85.00% of the time. "SLUICED" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)	85%	17	85,106
Lexical Verb (past participle)	15%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	20	N/A

Language		Translations for "SLUICED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		灌溉 (irrigate, Irrigated, Irrigating, Irrigation, sluicing). (various references)

French		enrochements arrosés sous pression (sluiced rock fill). (various references)

German		strömte aus (emanated). (various references)

Italian		scogliera lavata con lancia durante il getto del pietrame (sluiced rock fill). (various references)

Pig Latin		uicedslay

Portuguese		enrocamentos regados sob pressão (sluiced rock fill). (various references)

Russian		выпускать через шлюз. (various references)

Spanish		escollera lavada con agua a presión (sluiced rock fill). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"SLUICED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sleuice, slucied, sluicer, squice, suicde, sulice. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-l-s-u"
	-1 letter: sliced, sluice.
	-2 letters: cedis, ceils, clued, clues, deils, delis, dices, duces, duels, dulse, idles, ileus, isled, leuds, lieus, luces, lucid, ludes, ludic, scudi, sidle, slice, slide, slued, sulci.
	-3 letters: cedi, ceil, cels, clue, cuds, cued, cues, deil, deli, dels, dice, diel, dies, disc, duce, duci, duel, dues, ecus, elds, iced, ices, ides, idle.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-l-s-u"
	+1 letter: clupeids, includes, nuclides, unsliced.
	+2 letters: cloudiest, clupeoids, cuddliest, delicious, dulcifies, dulcimers, dulcineas, glucoside, insculped, lodicules, lucidness, nucleoids, pulicides, ridicules, secluding.
	+3 letters: acidulates, capsulized, celluloids, cloudiness, deliquesce, disclosure, dulcimores, duplicates, elucidates, glucosides, lucidities, luminesced, nucleoside, outslicked, pediculous, publicised, ridiculers, scheduling, solicitude, subdialect, unlicensed, vulcanised.
	+4 letters: colatitudes, copublished, credulities, cuckoldries, declivitous, deductibles, deliciously, deliquesced, deliquesces, disclosures, discussable, discussible, disgraceful, divulgences, ductilities, duodecimals, duplicities, elucidators, feudalistic, glucosidase, incredulous, indulgences, inosculated, leucocidins, lucidnesses, musicalised, musicalized, nucleosides, nucleotides, pediculates, pediculoses, pediculosis, secularised, secularized, seductively, simulcasted, solicitudes, subdialects, sublicensed, supercoiled, supplicated, undisclosed, unsolicited, vesiculated.
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