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Definition: Penstock |
PenstockNoun1. Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice. 2. Conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Penstock \Pen"stock\, noun. [Etymology uncertain; perhaps from pen an inclosure stock.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A gate which can be raised or lowered by sliding in vertical guides. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A channel to bring water under pressure to the turbine. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | A component of a hydropower plant; a pipe that delivers water to the turbine. (references) |
Mining | A. A sluice or gate for restraining, deviating, or otherwise regulating the flow of water, sewage, etc.; a floodgate b. The barrel of a wooden pump. c. A closed conduit for supplying water under pressure to a water wheel orturbine. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PenstockSynonyms: floodgate (n), head gate (n), sluice (n), sluice valve (n), sluicegate (n), sluiceway (n), water gate (n). (additional references) |
| 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: Penstock |
| English words defined with "penstock": Penchute, Pentrough. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "penstock": forebay ♦ terminal anchors. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Old penstock, Turner's spring, Mt. Agassiz, Bethlehem, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Penstock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Penstock" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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 |
penstock | 5 |
penstock software | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "penstock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | portë uji, vijë mulliri, qyngj uji. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | улей (furrow, gutter, headrace, lead, quirk, rabbet, run, runway, spout), шлюз (coffer, cofferdam, floodgate, gate, hatch, lock, sluice), напорен тръбопровод. (various references) | |
Chinese | "杆. (various references) | |
Czech | koryto stavidla. (various references) | |
Danish | turbinerør, trykrør, stigbord (discharge sluice, slide gate, sluice, sluice gate, tide lock), murventil (sluice gate). (various references) | |
Dutch | verticale schuif met spindel (slide gate, sluice gate), schuifafsluiter (sluice gate), drukleiding. (various references) | |
Finnish | paineputki, tuloputki, tasoluukku (slide gate, sluice gate), liukuluukku (slide gate, sluice gate). (various references) | |
French | vanne murale, vanne glissante, vanne glissières, conduite forcée, canal d'amenée (pentrough, pentstock). (various references) | |
German | Zugschieber (sluice gate), Gleitschuetz (slide gate, sluice gate), Druckrohr, Druckleitung, Dammplattenverschluss, Absperrschieber (sluice gate, valve). (various references) | |
Greek | υδατοφράκτησ (bay), αγωγός πτώσης, ολισθαίνων θυρόφραγμα (slide gate, sluice gate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsilip (flood gate, sluice, sluice gate, sluice valve). (various references) | |
Italian | paratoia di chiusura (sluice gate), paratoia a scorrimento (slide gate, sluice gate), condotta forzata, chiusa (closing, closure, end, lock, paddle, sluice, Weir). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enstockpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | represa (catchment, clow, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, lock-gate, mill-pond, reservoir, sluice, sluicegate, weir), conduta forçada, comporta de corrediça (slide gate, sluice gate), comporta basculante (bascule gate, slide gate, sluice gate), comporta (bibb, clow, floodgate, gate, hatch, lock, lock-gate, sluice, sluicegate, stopper, tide-gate, water-gate), adufa (lattice, shutter), açude (dam, dike, dyke, mill-dam, water reservoir). (various references) | |
Romanian | vanã (tub), stãvilar (dam, flood gate, lock, pier, sluice, Weir). (various references) | |
Russian | шлюз (bridge, floodgate, gate, gateway, lock, sluice). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hidrant (hydrant, stand-pipe), cev šmrka, brana (barrage, dam, groyne, jetty, lock, pike, preserve, water gate, weir). (various references) | |
Spanish | tubería forzada, tubería de presión, conducto forzado, conducción forzada, compuerta deslizante (slide gate, sluice gate), compuerta de esclusa (sluice gate), compuerta (floodgate, gate, sluice, sluicegate, watergate), caz (millrace). (various references) | |
Swedish | tilloppstub. (various references) | |
Turkish | savak (sluice, sluiceway), baraj kapağı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шлюз (canal lock, coffer, floodgate, lock, overflow-dike, sluice), жолоб (apron, canal, chamfer, channel, chute, flume, fuller, gutter, outfall, rut). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ống dẫn nước có áp. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "penstock": penstocks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "penstock": alpenstock. (additional references) | |
Words containing "penstock": alpenstocks. (additional references) | |
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"Penstock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beenstock, Benstock, Binstock, Binsztok, Pensato, Pincock, Sengstock, Sexstock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "penstock" (pronounced 'Pen"stock'): Bedstock, Bergstock, Bitstock, gunstock, headstock, Linstock, rootstock, tailstock, Whipstock, Woolstock. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-k-n-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: pockets. | |
-2 letters: centos, contes, copens, netops, pocket, ponces, pontes, socket, spoken, tokens. | |
-3 letters: cento, cents, cokes, cones, conks, conte, copen, copes, copse, coset, cotes, escot, estop, kenos, knops, knosp, knots, necks, netop, nocks, notes, onces, onset, opens, pecks, peons, pesto, pocks, poets, pokes, ponce, pones, scent, scone, scope, seton, sneck, speck, spent, spoke. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-n-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: penstocks. | |
+2 letters: alpenstock. | |
+3 letters: alpenstocks, checkpoints, kinetoscope. | |
+4 letters: computerniks, kinetoscopes, pocketknives. | |
+5 letters: kleptomaniacs, psychokinetic. | |
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