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Meanings of floodgate in inglês
português
descarregador de cheia catalão
comporta Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice.
Synonyms
Examples for "penstock"
Examples for "penstock"
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?
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.
Usage of floodgate in inglês
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.
6
They dug an outlet for the pond and rigged a floodgate for it.
7
That opened the floodgate of offers to work on other dancehall and reggae projects.
8
If he loses the ruling it could open a floodgate of charges against him.
9
His comment was treated like something of a floodgate-opening event.
10
I opened a floodgate, and the tide has drowned me.
11
Isabelle opened the floodgate to her fears, allowing all her terror to come pouring forth.
12
He could only mean along to Byron's Pool, to the floodgate that crosses the river.
13
A floodgate of memories from his youth burst open.
14
This opened a floodgate of accusation and crocodillian remorse.
15
The marks suddenly opened between us like a floodgate.
16
I rolled from the floodgate among the ducks, and cried, "Snake!"
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Frequent collocations
Floodgate through the time