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Definition: Floodgate |
FloodgateNoun1. Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "floodgate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. A gate for shutting out, admitting, releasing, or otherwise regulating a body of water, such as excess water in times of flood; specif. the lower gate of a lock. See also:sluiceb. A stream stopped by or allowed to pass by a floodgate. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FloodgateSynonyms: head gate (n), penstock (n), sluice valve (n), sluicegate (n), water gate (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Egress | Outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory, outgate, sally port; way out; mouth, door; (opening); path; (way); conduit; airpipe. |
Limit | Ircumvallation; pillars of Hercules; Rubicon, turning point; ne plus ultra; sluice, floodgate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Floodgate |
| Specialty definitions using "floodgate": HYDROELECTRIC-MACHINERY MECHANIC ♦ plant machinist. (references) |
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Floodgate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Floodgate" is used about 7 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
floodgate | 34 |
floodgate record | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "floodgate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | سد (bar, barrage, block, bung, clog, close, close up, congest, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fill, foul, lock, mure, obturate, obturation, occlude, occlusion, pack, plug, seal, shut, stem, stop, stop up, stuff, tamp, wad, weir), بوابة السد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | савак, шлюз (coffer, cofferdam, gate, hatch, lock, penstock, sluice), шибър (register, shutter, slide, target), задръжки (trammels). (various references) | |
Chinese | 水闸 (sluice). (various references) | |
Czech | stavidlo (sluice, water gate). (various references) | |
French | vanne (flood gate), porte d'écluse. (various references) | |
German | schleusentor (lock gate, sluice gate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | סכר (barrage, dam, lock, sluice, sluice gate). (various references) | |
Italian | porta della chiusura. (various references) | |
Manx | cooylley ushtey (lock gate, water gate, water valve). (various references) | |
Norwegian | sluseport (lock gate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodgateflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | comporta (bibb, clow, hatch, lock, lock-gate, penstock, sluice, sluicegate, stopper, tide-gate, water-gate). (various references) | |
Russian | шлюз (penstock). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ustava (lock, sluice, weir). (various references) | |
Spanish | esclusa (lock, sluice), compuerta (gate, sluice). (various references) | |
Swedish | dammlucka (sluice, water gate). (various references) | |
Thai | ประตูระบายน้ำ. (various references) | |
Turkish | set (bank, barrage, barrier, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, groyne, obstruction, rampart, seawall, set, setting, studio, wall, Weir), bent kapağı (sluice, sluice gate). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шлюз (canal lock, coffer, lock, overflow-dike, penstock, sluice). (various references) | |
Welsh | fflodiad, llifddor. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "floodgate": floodgates. (additional references) | |
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"Floodgate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fosgate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "floodgate" (pronounced flu"dgā't) |
| 3 | -g ā' t | arrogate, abrogate, castigate, congregate, corrugate, delegate, desegregate, fumigate, instigate, interrogate, investigate, irrigate, litigate, mitigate, navigate, obligate, profligate, propagate, relegate, segregate, subjugate, tailgate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| 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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