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Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice
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floodgate
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Floodgates , also called stop gates , are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers , reservoir , river , stream , or levee systems. They may be designed to set spillway crest heights in dams , to adjust flow rates in sluices and canals ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. something that restrains a flood or outpouring; "suspension of surveillance opened the floodgates to illegal immigrants" regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice [syn: sluicegate , sluice valve , penstock ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB open ▪ Its authors say the motorway has opened the floodgates for development on a scale planners hadn't envisaged. ▪ A move like this will open the floodgates . ▪ The case could open the floodgates for thousands of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice. 2 (context by extension English) Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion etc.
Usage examples of floodgate.
It is your task to hold the floodgate until I can slip through into the Plane of Water.
Below roared the cold clear torrent from the floodgate, three hundred feet wide, dark and deep.
It was as if the floodgate had opened when those first two had arrived for, in the space of a few minutes, four more families arrived.
Savanake clambered up out of the water on the far side of the floodgates where the bottom of the pool sloped up sharply to the bank.
She knew Campion too well to interfere, and had lent a hand by opening the floodgates only when the situation had seemed desperate enough to warrant her assistance.
As additional equipment was loaded, floodgates were opened and water rushed into the drydock that housed the underwater craft.
His near electrocution opened up the floodgates and made him, truly, my mother.
Now the floodgates were wide open, and all she could think about was touching him.
Chainer had opened the floodgates of his mind, and the Mirari was keeping them open.
Fuquois and wishing to please his temporal father, Pierro del Ponte, Sylvester meant to redeem the name of Simon Magus and elevate the Simonites to legitimacy in order to open a floodgate of treasure into the Vatican vaults.
Embankment, the next station along, Paul Suter and a team of engineers are attempting to close a floodgate on the Bakerloo Line that shuts off the track running south under the river.
Embankment Paul Suter and his team have repaired the shift mechanism on the Bakerloo floodgate, but the gate itself is still locked solid and refusing to move.
All day, as they descended the mountain, the rain came down in torrents, a real Formosan rain that is like the floodgates opening.
Their ravishing high notes launch a pathetic prayer at the clerestory, a help message holding at bay, for one more hemiola, the floodgate crossing.
Sarge started to bellow a reply, but it was as if a floodgate had opened somewhere, as a new wave of the obscene, podlike creatures rolled out of the darkness to overwhelm the humans.