Crossword clues for sluicing
sluicing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sluice \Sluice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sluiced; p. pr. & vb. n. Sluicing.]
To emit by, or as by, flood gates. [R.]
--Milton.-
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
--Howitt.He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.
--De Quincey. To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching. 2 (context linguistics English) A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why". vb. (present participle of sluice English)
WordNet
adj. pouring from or as if from a sluice; "the sluicing rain"
Wikipedia
In syntax, sluicing is a type of ellipsis that occurs in both direct and indirect interrogative clauses. The ellipsis is introduced by a wh-expression, whereby in most cases, everything except the wh-expression is elided from the clause. Sluicing has been studied in detail in recent years and is therefore a relatively well understood type of ellipsis. Sluicing occurs in many languages.
Usage examples of "sluicing".
Water trickled over rocks, sluicing down from highlands glimpsed beyond the sparse forest cover.
Jerna whispered above the prince, sluicing down on the breeze to curl protectively around his shoulders.
He looked around, to see a flood spiraling down on him, white water sluicing through an invisible pipe, a snake made of water.
That was one of the funny changes that the climate shift had brought: most of the world was hot as hell, now, but there was this cold current sluicing up from Antarctica into the middle of the Pacific, sending icebergs floating toward the tropics.
The sound of rain striking the rounded roof and sluicing along the curved metal skin of our cocoon was wonderfully soothing.
He and Blade scrambled for their shelter as the first drops started falling, but as was her custom, she stayed outside long enough to get a good sluicing down by the rain before coming in.