sluice gate

collocation in English

meaningsofsluiceandgate

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sluice
noun[C]
uk
/sluːs/us
/sluːs/
an artificial channel for carrying water, with an opening at one end to control the flow of ...
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gate
noun[C]
uk
/ɡeɪt/us
/ɡeɪt/
a part of a fence or outside wall that is fixed at one side and opens and closes like a door, usually made of metal or ...
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(Definition ofsluiceandgatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The critical flows describe the flow under asluicegate.
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It also models the free surface flow under asluicegateor past a 'surfboard'.
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Examples include the flow due to a moving ship and the flow under asluicegate.
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In the next section we consider critical flow past an inclinedsluicegate.
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Asluicegateprice aleady operates, intended to prevent imports below the cost of production.
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He took us over the threshold, through thesluicegateand out of the dam on the other side.
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The purported liberation of the pharmacists by removing thesluicegatecurrently operated by the local primary care trusts is not deregulation at all.
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It operates as asluicegate.
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In fact, asluicegatewould be put there and whether the tide was in or out there would be water in the indentation at all times.
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Clauses 29 to 33 provide for the manner in which the barrier, pumping station andsluicegatemay be operated, and provide penalties for interference with them.
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Now water is controlled from asluicegatelocated at the downstream mouth of the oxbow lake.
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The energy required to pass through thesluicegateat the flow conditions described will not be sufficient.
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A possible reconstruction of thesluicegatewas commissioned in 1914 with the canal opening.
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Excess water from the canal was released through asluicegate.
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At the moment the sea came into the pond and fishes of every kind entered thesluicegate.
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