Crossword clues for floodgate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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, head gate, water gate]
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, or they may be designed to stop water flow entirely as part of a levee or storm surge system. Since most of these devices operate by controlling the water surface elevation being stored or routed, they are also known as crest gates. In the case of flood bypass systems, floodgates sometimes are also used to lower the water levels in a main river or canal channels by allowing more water to flow into a flood bypass or detention basin when the main river or canal is approaching a flood stage.
Floodgate is a novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, first published in 1983. It is a rare example of inter-novel continuity in MacLean's writing, as one of the characters in his previous novel Puppet on a Chain makes a re-appearance.
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.