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sluices:
- écluses; déversement; dégorgement; vidange; écoulement; évacuation
sluice:
- écluse; sas; pertuis; écluse à sas; écluse d'admission
Wiktionary:
- sluice → écluse, sas
- sluice → écluse

English

Detailed Translations for sluices from English to French

sluices:

sluices [the ~] noun

the sluices (locks)
l'écluses
- écluses [la ~] noun
the sluices (draining off; discharging; desisting)
le déversement; le dégorgement; la vidange; l'écoulement; l'évacuation
- déversement [le ~] noun
- dégorgement [le ~] noun
- vidange [la ~] noun
- écoulement [le ~] noun
- évacuation [la ~] noun

Translation Matrix for sluices:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
dégorgement	desisting; discharging; draining off; sluices
déversement	desisting; discharging; draining off; sluices	crash down; drainage; draining; emptying
vidange	desisting; discharging; draining off; sluices	discharge; discharge point; drainage; draining; emptying; outlet; sewer; water outlet
écluses	locks; sluices	lock; lockages
écoulement	desisting; discharging; draining off; sluices	bleeding; discharge; discharge point; drain; drainage; draining; elapsing; emptying; evacuation; exhaust; exhaust pipe; expiration; flow-control agent; flowing; flux; haemorrhage; hemorrhage; lapsing; menorrhagia; outflow; outlet; passing; release; rivers; sewer; streams; water outlet
évacuation	desisting; discharging; draining off; sluices	clearing; discharge; discharge point; drainage; draining; emptying; evacuation; outlet; sewer; water outlet

Related Words for "sluices":

sluice

sluice:

sluice [the ~] noun

the sluice (lock; lock chamber; scupper; drain; small lock)
l'écluse; le sas; le pertuis; l'écluse à sas
- écluse [la ~] noun
- sas [le ~] noun
- pertuis [le ~] noun
- écluse à sas [le ~] noun
the sluice (lock)
l'écluse
- écluse [la ~] noun
the sluice (inlet)
l'écluse d'admission
- écluse d'admission [la ~] noun

Translation Matrix for sluice:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
pertuis	drain; lock; lock chamber; scupper; sluice; small lock
sas	drain; lock; lock chamber; scupper; sluice; small lock
écluse	drain; lock; lock chamber; scupper; sluice; small lock	lock; lockages
écluse d'admission	inlet; sluice
écluse à sas	drain; lock; lock chamber; scupper; sluice; small lock	lift-lock
-	penstock; sluiceway
Verb	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	flush; sluice down
Other	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	flood-gate; sluice-gate

Related Words for "sluice":

sluices

Synonyms for "sluice":

sluiceway; penstock; conduit
sluice down; pour; pelt; stream; rain cats and dogs; rain buckets
flush; drench; douse; dowse; soak; sop; souse
transport
draw; take out

Related Definitions for "sluice":

conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate¹
irrigate with water from a sluice¹
- sluice the earth¹
draw through a sluice¹
- sluice water¹
transport in or send down a sluice¹
- sluice logs¹
pour as if from a sluice¹
- An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef¹

Wiktionary Translations for sluice:

sluice

noun

passage for water
- sluice → écluse

sluice

noun

Partie d’un canal comprise entre les deux portes d’une écluse et permettant aux péniches de passer d’un niveau d’eau à l’autre.
- sas → lock; sluice; airlock
clôture en forme de bassin, faite de terre, de pierre, de bois ou de toute autre matière dans un port, sur une rivière, sur un canal, etc., ayant une ou plusieurs portes qui se lever et se baisser ou qui s’ouvrent et se fermer, pou
- écluse → lock; sluice; sluice-gate

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• sluice	→ écluse	↔ Schleuse — verschließbares Tor zur Regulierung verschieden hoher Wasserstände

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