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Meanings of water gate in anglès
portuguès
descarregador de cheia català
comporta Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice.
Sinònims
Examples for "floodgate"
Examples for "floodgate"
1
The words came into her blank, resistant mind like a floodgate opening.
2
The addition of her air magick had opened some kind of floodgate.
3
Cornelia saw his emotion; the great floodgate of her heart seemed suddenly lifted.
4
Meeting his gaze, she unbarred a floodgate of happy tenderness in her eyes.
5
He raised the floodgate, and there at last was a way of escape.
1
But the guest grabbed the penstock while it was still vibrating.
2
I'm going to run a penstock up those falls, and put in a turbine, driving a high-tension alternator.
3
Everything ready for the test, Stevens took off his frayed and torn leather coveralls and moccasins and climbed nimbly up the penstock.
4
The next day I told Miss Penstock.
5
Penstock, a wooden tube for conducting water.
1
A Double-faced Wedge-shaped Sluice -Valve for Main Street Water-pipes.
1
A concrete head gate was installed at a feasible take-out point on the Crazy Loop.
2
Two men had dismounted by the head gate.
3
The water was gradually raised till it ran almost flush with the top of the head gate.
4
One man knelt near the head gate, then mounted and jumped his horse off after the rest.
5
Hey, what if I shut all the head gates while they're digging?
Usage of water gate in anglès
1
The man who keeps the water gate there is called Jehan Werbecque.
2
He made for the east and the water gate of the Inner Round.
3
There is a boat with armed men at the water gate to the abbey.
4
A blackbird picked up the note, and sang from a bush by the water gate.
5
Evidently they were hurrying down to the water gate.
6
The Templar compound was on the edge of the sea but had only a small water gate.
7
We got in through the water gate, and then across the first lane before they even saw us.
8
They stopped at the water gate, close to the Bridge of Sighs, and Francis and his conductor entered.
9
Thou and the rest shall wait at the water gate, and there deliver the provisions and receive the reward.
10
The gondola lay at the marble steps of the water gate, held against the stones by two of its crew.
11
When he came to the surface inside the water gate, the sentry was at the extreme end of his beat.
12
It is high tide, and Elizabeth goes down to the water gate and says the water is rising over the steps.
13
An hour later he returned, the prisoners were landed and received by a strong guard of spearmen at the water gate.
14
It was held to the last, and proved an invaluable acquisition, because commanding the water gate through which the relief column entered.
15
Thus saying, Simon led the way towards the water gate, turning out the guard and bidding them accompany him as he went.
16
And the Nathinites dwelt in Ophel, as far as over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stood out.