英语词汇“sluice”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

noun | verb

sluicesluice1 /slus/ noun [countable]

ETYMOLOGYsluice¹

Origin: 1300-1400 Old French escluse, from Late Latin exclusa, from Latin excludere; ➔ EXCLUDE

a passage for water to flow through, with a special gate that can be opened or closed to control the flow

noun | verb

sluicesluice2 verb

VERB TABLE

sluice

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	sluice
	he, she, it	sluices
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	sluiced
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have sluiced
	he, she, it	has sluiced
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had sluiced
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will sluice
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have sluiced

Continuous Form
Present	I	am sluicing
	he, she, it	is sluicing
	you, we, they	are sluicing
Past	I, he, she, it	was sluicing
	you, we, they	were sluicing
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been sluicing
	he, she, it	has been sluicing
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been sluicing
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be sluicing
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been sluicing

1[transitive] to wash something with a lot of water2[intransitive always + adv./prep.] if water sluices somewhere, a large amount of it suddenly flows there