🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯
檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
- Brussels sprout 98
- Wish 202
- ambrosial 56
- Help 164
- enter 513
- uphold 328
- Tactical 148
- quadruped 67
- ballsy 126
- sand 526
- Lastly 50
- commemoration 119
- respect 561
- tentacle 102
- elasticized 106
- gauge 526
- canned 115
- vigil 278
- bifocal 112
- Shed 199
- flycatcher 128
- Topical 99
- favorable 548
- club 545
- Diabetic 140
- greatly 438
- Toll 132
- Unbecoming 10
- lithuania 47
- disembodied 111
- dated 218
- bearish 124
- grievous 107
- removeable 31
- Festschrift 56
- fridge 524
- page 273
- unitary 65
- propeller 154
- coffin 235
- Intergalactic 44
- butterfly 508
- Opacity 52
- crossroad 131
- psychodrama 40
- Nurse 222
- Blip 162
- apparently 185
- toll free 99
- Preheat 105
- modulate 83
- at random 103
- simulate 187
- Abode 152
- Beamer 73
- PREMIUM 128
- degree 614
- aeronautics 154
- Always 63
- illegality 86
- couturier 104
- defect 566
- pump 502
- scarce 439
- Boycott 197
- lift off 47
- premier 566
- assisted living 107
- same 334
- fair 478
- polygamy 148
- hut 456
- far and away 55
- blotch 116
- acquisition 652
- cognate 95
- convulsion 179
- Mattress 77
- neurosis 72
- disrupt 278
- Cicada 57
- Swap 86
- Hinder 201
- fume 339
- Dedicate 172
- vital 678
- floe 103
- Snowflake 143
- Feast 211
- enchantment 110
- unlike 459
- Pony 124
- loathing 85
- Esteem 129
- Fluency 165
- nominal 106
- effectual 123
- Eloquent 231
- throat 496
- alive and kicking 27
- Er 115
- scrap 339
- theater 265
- Compensation 223
- acidity 117
- edible 121
- wasp 421
- stitch 516
- rate 547
- tissue 534
- avast 43
- confess 461
- faculty 526
- unaffordable 110
- limpet 50
- Keeping 92
- dialectic 130
- ideological 181
- turn in 52
- Interstate 135
- Chamber 200
- marshy 87
- heaving 18
- rubber 402
- Analysis 173
- Rift 112
- harden 511
- denunciation 175
- pheromone 152
- Stamina 161
- manly 444
- Board 218
- liquefy 136
- OBSERVE 98
- gritrock 60
- fusty 234
- Biology 59
- innovate 186
- funky 144
- grandad 72
- mohair 63
- finesse 106
- belle 105
- tranny 76
- limousine 136
- sacrificial 74
- naked 488
- Cajole 36
- positivism 55
- Rebuke 213
- Apocalyptic 209
- pond 509
- athleticism 190
- bologna 90
- rg 79
- fantastically 122
- hardtop 70
- bother 314
- bipartite 83
- MOIST 142
- profession 478
- sylvan 63
- Grasp 204
- selvage 56
- arrayed 81
- productive 482
- Intercourse 123
- boy 301
- relaxing 143
- wallop 81
- Treatment 251
- goose-step 78
- Discipline 212
- rationalism 68
- bellies 57
- Ambassador 237
- dominate 588
- Mismatch 80
- digital 442
- program 555
- prospect 607
- civilised 62
- Imprison 208
- scrip 77
- racegoer 54
- Habituate 89
- indulgent 118
- arrester 48
- Slacken 38
- cathode 118
- Muḥammad 50
- wop 67
- Practice 228
- Recoup 32
- disorienting 122
- sunblock 99
- daily 479
- fractious 109
- creed 133
- earlobe 142
- buggery 102
- she 126
- Wreckage 225
- vestige 111
- undeniable 175
- what's up 33
- adult 536
- disinclined 116
- combat 323
- concentric 101
- Bloc 213
- mass 551
- infest 182
- Formulation 96
- black tie 95
- starved 21
- ropable 47
- kidnap 133
- Promiscuous 79
- boule 73
- wheezy 68
- gratis 181
- misery 147
- resourced 35
- Album 202
- fertilization 113
- aerodynamic 79
- scary 121
- pharmacology 95
- aright 108
- threepence 65
- favoritism 190
- statistic 233
- mal- 79
- anemone 114
- heresy 79
- barge 274
- blunt 243
- Condemn 283
- trawl 107
- useful 487
- compulsion 256
- voile 62
- wiener 57
- Avenue 205
- Secrecy 140
- robes 31
- interpretation 501
- knock out 92
- guitar 179
- user-friendly 206
- Clinician 38
- Prevail 261
- multicolored 73
- intellectual 483
- Bilateral 168
- No-no 71
- factoring 65
- carat 112
- Audience 236
- Atlas 72
- polarization 161
- Besides 122
- ramekin 61
- parlourmaid 40
- coupled 59
- lush 153
- monogamy 65
- unconstrained 36
- nonsense 504
- staff 525
- stopgap 64
- Adultery 115
- suffer 570
- radically 86
- Add 185
- Wildfire 30
- presuppose 66
- brinkmanship 101
- nippy 131
- rerun 91
- forty 135
- Downfall 30
- aesthetic 226
- get over 120
- wide-eyed 59
- phoney 48
- navel 181
- nanny 217
- groundless 133
- liquidate 98
- Personalize 52
- grandee 145
- putter 198
- Superintendent 143
- condonation 59
- cap 472
- playroom 69
- survives 104
- sickle 214
- Decline 274
- up close 49
- could've 99
- Somersault 92
- fidelity 261
- Commemoration 154
- mobilize 286
- myocardium 49
- soil 511
- arctics 37
- sombrero 63
- paw 520
- pervade 116
- idolatry 139
- Swear 225
- fluff 210
- nothing 275
- acetate 72
- Blessing 124
- invigilator 67
- Tiring 37
- ivory 152
- Invasive 153
- Eatable 32
- bang 531
- fanzine 110
- lib 71
- ease off 134
- nozzle 79
- broody 130
- postman 502
- underbake 40
- espouse 123
- parallel 490
- Mercy 123
- kitchen 282
- Unseemly 73
- puppet 541
- serious 533
- slug it out 58
- knock 296
- vitriol 62
- crusade 152
- Cost-effective 96
- Shorten 212
- dormitory 424
- mullion 50
- receipt 156
- guarantor 175
- Liking 69
- For 200
- qualifier 83
- backhand 118
- remaining 83
- the Far East 55
- subscription 229
- confounded 117
- Eyeliner 40
- dying 432
- worldly 152
- angularity 102
- wearer 57
- gel 225
- smokeless 56
- rancorous 69
- render 474
- Vogue 77
- progenitor 179
- chatter 167
- Continuing 176
- represented 40
- coquette 118
- prejudiced 84
- give over to 81
- remind 466
- churchgoer 112
- sweat 526
- Overdue 131
- retail 486
- discover 478
- fireman 449
- km 100
- Bahrain 86
- rebuild 105
- BEARABLE 148
- thematic 103
- chiasmi 31
- chronometer 104
- sometime 433
- laboratory 494
- splay 83
- Memory 203
- Testify 61
- sequential 60
- individualist 76
- Loch 87
- sallow 110
- enlist 204
- environmentalist 129
- necked 43
- cheat 459
- at worst 31
- explosion 489
- negative 510
- feel 270
- Expansion 242
- brainstorming 129
- Finish 51
- incentivize 152
- Part 277
- occlude 44
- maudlin 66
- popinjay 47
- temerity 112
- au pair 111
- history 581
- ambit 112
- appendage 114
- heater 77
- weary 521
- dentist 110
- dead weight 90
- life 286
- Sunk 72
- Inferior 174
- Haystack 85
- guerrilla 141
- phonograph 70
- potpie 63
- Limited 178
- Shipping 79
- Broad 136
- synoptic 97
- crooked 123
- dust 516
- mediation 226
- softener 44
- garibaldi 38
- cull 215
- chunk 241
- actuate 132
- replete 113
- spooky 97
- contretemps 96
- Tempt 129
- Frank 175
- childminder 98
- sexy 85
- fez 142
- defend 503
- snout 84
- flight 213
- fleece 178
- contentious 141
- luncheon 221
- maroon 73
- adman 106
- grieve 501
- creepy 163
- penitentiary 145
- notepad 52
- driving 179
- exhortation 88
- eyelash 122
- 's 114
- indecision 68
- pattern 506
- gobbet 174
- HIGHLIGHT 78
- distillate 82
- supremacist 114
- Frighten 90
- mix up 166
- Squash 183
- Con 204
- primarily 443
- Validity 193
- generalized 100
- defy 321
- upper 482
- thermometer 479
- weekend 260
- spacious 249
- plug 573
- Adulthood 177
- Vague 109
- gnat 126
- bonbon 110
- softly 391
- Garter 94
- yell 546
- network 501
- Eyebrow 23
- Budding 56
- Sea 106
- Sabre 44
- wage earner 47
- boatswain 111
- Cuisine 124
- foundling 113
sluice
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural sluices
plural sluices
Learner's definition of SLUICE
[count]
1
: an artificial passage for water to flow through with a gate for controlling the flow闸沟
2
: a device (such as a floodgate) used for controlling the flow of water水闸
2 sluice /ˈsluːs/ verb
sluices; sluiced; sluicing
2 sluice
/ˈsluːs/
verb
sluices; sluiced; sluicing
Learner's definition of SLUICE
1
[+ object] : to wash or spray (something or someone) with a stream of water用水冲洗
- He sluiced (down) the floor.他用水冲洗了地面。
2
always followed by an adverb or preposition, [no object] : to flow or pour down heavily倾泻；喷涌
- Rain came sluicing down.大雨倾盆而下。
sluiced; sluicing
2
a
: to wash with or in water running through or from a sluice
b
: to drench with a sudden flow : flush
: to pour as if from a sluice
Example Sentences
Verb he sluiced the gutters with lots of water in order to make sure they were clear
Recent Examples on the Web
New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022 An emergent mining technique involved shovelling gravel and dirt into an open-ended trough, called a sluice box, then running water over it. David Owen, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022 To protect the historic structure until work can resume, INAH will cover the tunnel’s artworks, which appear on a sluice gate used by the city’s early colonial government, with soil, reports Isaac Schultz for Gizmodo. Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2021 To tunnel under walkways, attach a pointed sluice nozzle to a length of PVC pipe. Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2021 Seven Springs Gem Mining, featuring geology and nature lessons where amethyst, rose quartz, emerald and other crystals can be found using a sifting tray in the sluice. Megan Swift, USA TODAY, 12 June 2021 That date, a watershed of life, not just of hers, the sluice gate of a dam on the river that blocks the waters’ flow. Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021 Or, slice the leeks lengthwise and hold the cut sides under a tap, letting the cascade of water sluice away the dirt. New York Times, 17 May 2021 Save the Vaal Environment believes that the opening of sluice gates at the Vaal Dam in February has facilitated the rapid spread of water lettuce downstream, damaging aquatic life along the way. Tawanda Karombo, Quartz Africa, 28 Feb. 2021 M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2020 Markets are often watery because they are sluiced down, or because of the melting of the ice used to stop food from spoiling. The Economist, 26 May 2020 The water sluicing down the rocks is glitter and mist. Seija Rankin, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020 The precious metal is washed out of the dirt with which it is mixed by a panning, sluicing or washing process in the river below. Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2019 Even in an era when industrial-scale mining has been introduced in the region, independent gold miners are still digging and sluicing in the nearby Klondike Valley, using excavators and diesel pumps, as well as shovels and gold pans. Smithsonian, 24 Oct. 2019 Or simply girls like herself raised to womanhood in the Midwest, beside a steel mill, in a small house obsessively painted and sluiced with Fels-Naptha as though at any moment they might be forced to leave. The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019 Needing to catch fire Friday, despite teeing off in sluicing rain, the four-time major champion hunkered down to the task. Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 19 July 2019 Here is the birria de res of my life: juicy but slightly crisped, decorated only with diced, raw white onion, and sluiced in a furious salsa de guajillo. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2019 See More
Noun
It is thought that water was once carried through this sluice in terra-cotta pipes. New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022 An emergent mining technique involved shovelling gravel and dirt into an open-ended trough, called a sluice box, then running water over it. David Owen, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022 To protect the historic structure until work can resume, INAH will cover the tunnel’s artworks, which appear on a sluice gate used by the city’s early colonial government, with soil, reports Isaac Schultz for Gizmodo. Isis Davis-marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2021 To tunnel under walkways, attach a pointed sluice nozzle to a length of PVC pipe. Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2021 Seven Springs Gem Mining, featuring geology and nature lessons where amethyst, rose quartz, emerald and other crystals can be found using a sifting tray in the sluice. Megan Swift, USA TODAY, 12 June 2021 That date, a watershed of life, not just of hers, the sluice gate of a dam on the river that blocks the waters’ flow. Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021 Or, slice the leeks lengthwise and hold the cut sides under a tap, letting the cascade of water sluice away the dirt. New York Times, 17 May 2021 Save the Vaal Environment believes that the opening of sluice gates at the Vaal Dam in February has facilitated the rapid spread of water lettuce downstream, damaging aquatic life along the way. Tawanda Karombo, Quartz Africa, 28 Feb. 2021 Verb
The public became aware of the matter after U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced last week that Smith concocted a kick-back scheme to sluice $70,000 from his re-election account between 2012 and 2019. M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2020 Markets are often watery because they are sluiced down, or because of the melting of the ice used to stop food from spoiling. The Economist, 26 May 2020 The water sluicing down the rocks is glitter and mist. Seija Rankin, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2020 The precious metal is washed out of the dirt with which it is mixed by a panning, sluicing or washing process in the river below. Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2019 Even in an era when industrial-scale mining has been introduced in the region, independent gold miners are still digging and sluicing in the nearby Klondike Valley, using excavators and diesel pumps, as well as shovels and gold pans. Smithsonian, 24 Oct. 2019 Or simply girls like herself raised to womanhood in the Midwest, beside a steel mill, in a small house obsessively painted and sluiced with Fels-Naptha as though at any moment they might be forced to leave. The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019 Needing to catch fire Friday, despite teeing off in sluicing rain, the four-time major champion hunkered down to the task. Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 19 July 2019 Here is the birria de res of my life: juicy but slightly crisped, decorated only with diced, raw white onion, and sluiced in a furious salsa de guajillo. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from Anglo-French escluse, from Late Latin exclusa, from Latin, feminine of exclusus, past participle of excludere to exclude
First Known Use
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
1596, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of sluice was in the 15th century 👨🏻🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文