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An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
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The stream flowing through a flood gate.
(mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
(linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
(rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
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To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun sluice
is an artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.As a verb sluice
is (rare) to emit by, or as by, flood gates.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.sluice
English
(wikipedia sluice)Noun
(en noun)- Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.
- This home familiarity opens the sluices of sensibility.
Derived terms
* sluiceway * sluice gateCoordinate terms
* dam * lock * weirVerb
(en-verb)- (Milton)
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- He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.
- to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining
Coordinate terms
* (washing in mining) panQuotations
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Adjective
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