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floodgate

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1 floodgate

Something that restrains a flood or outpouring.

Roget 233: limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation; termination, terminus; ... meer laten zien

Roget 295: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; ... meer laten zien

2 floodgate

Regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice.

synoniemen: head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate.

Nederlands: schutdeur, sluisdeur


Moby betekeniswoordenboek: aboideau, air lock, avenue, blowhole, channel, chute, debouch, dock gate, door, egress, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, flood-hatch, flume, gate, head gate, lock ... meer laten zien.

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