0 an artificial channel for carrying water, with an opening at one end to control the flow of the water
1 If water sluices out from somewhere, it flows in large amounts:
Water sluiced out from the pipes.
Their role in improving ditches, sluices and drainage is especially important in a flat, low-lying, peat area such as mine.
The structures have included intakes, sluices, spillways and stilling basins.
He also said this was opening the sluices, and that bad developments might occur.
There is another and quite a different value—the value resulting to the land from the fact that the sea wall and sea sluices are there.
The sea portion of it might be fitted with sluices for temporary flooding.
Instead of upgrading the equipment, it was replaced with a macerator which minced to pieces the aborted babies and sluiced them down the local sewer.
The old operating theatre has no anaesthetic room, no recovery ward, no ventilation system and is adjacent to the ward's sluices and toilets.
I was also interested in the threats by local farmers to close sluices.
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水門, 水閘, 排水道…
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有闸水道, 泄水道, (水)大量溢出,泄出…
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canal de desagüe, correr a raudales, esclusa…
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canal, fluir…
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écluse, canal…
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výpustný otvor, kanál…
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sluse(-port), sluse…
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pintu air, saluran…
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