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Sluice Valve

Definition: Sluice Valve

Sluice Valve

Noun

1. 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.
 


Synonyms: Sluice Valve

Synonyms: floodgate (n), head gate (n), penstock (n), sluicegate (n), water gate (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sluice Valve

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gate and sluice valve

4

sluice valve

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Sluice Valve

Language Translations for "sluice valve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

vanne (sluicegate). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υδροφράχτησ (dam, lock, sluice). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zsilip (flood gate, penstock, sluice, sluice gate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uiceslay alvevay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sluice Valve

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-l-s-u-v-v"

-2 letters: vesiculae.

-3 letters: allusive, valvules, vesicula.

-4 letters: cleaves, cullies, elusive, eluvial, euclase, evasive, valvule, vesicae, vesical, vesicle, vivaces.

-5 letters: aculei, allees, allies, avulse, callus, calves, caules, caulis, cavies, cavils, cellae, clause, claves, clavus, cleave, clevis, cullis, eluvia, leaves, levels, levies, lilacs, scilla, silvae, sleave, sluice, sulcal, valise, values, valves, vesica, villae, villas, villus, visual, vivace.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sluice Valve


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6C 75 69 63 65      56 61 6C 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101100 01110101 01101001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01010110 01100001 01101100 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#117 &#105 &#99 &#101 &#32 &#86 &#97 &#108 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0075 0069 0063 0065      0056 0061 006C 0076 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53788775697125667788871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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