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Sluicegate

Definition: Sluicegate

Sluicegate

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: Sluicegate

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

Crosswords: Sluicegate

English words defined with "sluicegate": penstock ♦ sluice, sluiceway. (references)

Modern Translation: Sluicegate

Language		Translations for "sluicegate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		plads til reservesluseporte (sluicegate storage). (various references)

Dutch		deurenbergplaats (sluicegate storage). (various references)

French		vanne (sluice valve). (various references)

German		Lager-und Wartungshalle fuer die Wehrverschluesse (sluicegate storage). (various references)

Italian		magazzino per la custodia di ricambi delle parti mobili delle chiuse (sluicegate storage). (various references)

Pig Latin		uicegateslay

Portuguese		represa (catchment, clow, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, lock-gate, mill-pond, penstock, reservoir, sluice, weir), comporta (bibb, clow, floodgate, hatch, lock, lock-gate, penstock, sluice, stopper, tide-gate, water-gate). (various references)

Spanish		compuerta (floodgate, gate, penstock, sluice, watergate). (various references)

Ukrainian		шлюзні ворота. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Sluicegate

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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Alternative Orthography: Sluicegate

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

53 6C 75 69 63 65 67 61 74 65

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01101100 01110101 01101001 01100011 01100101 01100111 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#117 &#105 &#99 &#101 &#103 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0075 0069 0063 0065 0067 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

53788775697173678671

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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