sluice
🇺🇸
/sluːs/
🇬🇧
/sluːs/
noun
R
A sluice is a gate or device that controls the flow of water in a canal or river.
We opened the sluices, allowing water to flow from the river into the irrigation system.
スリューズを開けて、川の水を農業用水路システムに流し込みました。
verb
R
To sluice something means to wash it with a strong flow of water.
The workers sluiced the mud off the equipment using high-pressure hoses.
作業員は高圧ノズルを使って機械から泥を洗い落としました。
R
When water sluices somewhere, it flows there very quickly and in large amounts.
The rain sluiced through the gutters, causing them to overflow.
雨が落とし穴を流れ、それらを溢れさせました。
translation
水門
洗う, 流れ込む
語形変化
3rd Present
sluices
Past
sluiced
Perfect
sluiced
Progressive
sluicing
Plural
sluices