Synonyms of the word

sluice

• n. An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream,…
• n. A water gate or floodgate.
• n. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
• n. The stream flowing through a flood gate.
• n. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
• n. (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
• v. (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
• v. (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice.
• v. (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
• v. (transitive) (more generally) To wash (down or out).
• v. (intransitive) To flow, pour.
• v. (linguistics) To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

conduit

• n. A pipe or channel for conveying water etc.
• n. A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled; a type of raceway.
• n. A means by which something is transmitted.
• n. (finance) An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off-balance…

douse

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
• v. (intransitive) To fall suddenly into water.
• v. (transitive) To put out; to extinguish.
• v. (transitive) To strike.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly.
• n. A blow; stroke.

dowse

• n. A blow on the face.
• v. To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.
• v. To beat or thrash.
• v. To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc.

draw

• v. (heading) To move or develop something.
• v. (heading) To exert or experience force.
• v. (heading, fluidic) To remove or separate or displace.
• v. (heading) To change in size or shape.
• v. (heading) To attract or be attracted.
• v. (Usually as draw on or draw upon): to rely on; utilize as a source.
• v. To disembowel.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
• v. A random selection process.
• v. (curling) To make a shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• v. (cricket) To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect…
• v. (golf) To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
• v. (billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes…
• n. The result of a contest in which neither side has won; a tie.
• n. The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
• n. Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
• n. (cricket) The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings…
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice,…
• n. (curling) A shot that lands in the house without hitting another stone.
• n. (geography) A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
• n. (colloquial) Cannabis.
• n. In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
• n. (poker) A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary…
• n. (archery) The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
• n. (sports) The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.

drench

• n. A draught administered to an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also,…
• v. To soak, to make very wet.
• v. To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.
• n. (obsolete, Britain) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.

flush

• n. A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees etc.
• v. (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
• v. (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
• adj. Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
• adj. Wealthy or well off.
• adj. (typography) Short for flush left and right; a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
• adj. Full of vigour; fresh; glowing; bright.
• adj. Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
• n. A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
• n. Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
• n. A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind;…
• n. Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
• n. A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
• v. (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
• v. (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
• v. (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or…
• v. (transitive) To cause to blush.
• v. To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
• v. (transitive) To excite, inflame.
• v. (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
• v. (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer) of its contents.
• v. To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
• v. To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
• v. (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
• v. (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient,…
• v. (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which,…
• n. (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.

pelt

• n. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly…
• n. The body of any quarry killed by a hawk.
• n. (humorous) Human skin.
• v. (transitive) To bombard, as with missiles.
• v. (transitive) To throw; to use as a missile.
• v. (intransitive) To rain or hail heavily.
• v. (intransitive) To throw out words.
• v. (transitive) To beat or hit, especially repeatedly.
• v. To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance.
• n. A blow or stroke from something thrown.

penstock

• n. A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to…
• n. The barrel of a wooden pump.

pour

• v. (transitive) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of…
• v. (transitive) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
• v. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
• v. (intransitive) To flow, pass or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
• v. (intransitive) to move in a throng, as a crowd.
• n. The act of pouring.
• n. Something, or an amount, poured.
• n. (colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.
• v. Misspelling of pore.

sluiceway

• n. a man-made channel designed to redirect excess water.

soak

• v. (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
• v. (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
• v. (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
• v. (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up).
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To take money from.
• v. (slang, dated) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
• v. (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
• v. (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
• n. An immersion in water etc.
• n. (slang, Britain) A drunkard.
• n. (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.

sop

• n. Something entirely soaked.
• n. A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
• n. Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
• n. A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop.
• n. Gravy. (Appalachia).
• n. (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
• v. To steep or dip in any liquid.

souse

• n. Something kept or steeped in brine.
• n. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
• n. A person suffering from alcoholism.
• v. To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench.
• n. The act of sousing, or swooping.
• n. A heavy blow.
• v. (now dialectal, transitive) to strike, beat.
• v. (now dialectal, intransitive) to fall heavily.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) to pounce upon.
• n. (obsolete) sou (the French coin).
• n. (dated) A small amount.

stream

• n. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
• n. A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
• n. Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
• n. (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
• n. (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
• n. (figuratively) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
• n. (Britain, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
• v. (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
• v. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
• v. (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used…

transport

• v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
• v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
• v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
• n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
• n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
• n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
• n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
• n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
• n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
• n. (historical) A deported convict.