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Culvert vs Sluice - What's the difference?

culvert | sluice |

As nouns the difference between culvert and sluice

is that culvert is a transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water while 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 verbs the difference between culvert and sluice

is that culvert is to channel (a stream of water) through a culvert while sluice is to emit by, or as by, flood gates.

culvert

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A transverse channel under a road or railway for the draining of water.
  • * 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 91
    • A raft of twigs stayed upon a stone, suddenly detached itself, and floated towards the culvert .
  • * 1996 , , Virago Press, paperback edition, page 167
    • After she left, I ran away for a day, and hid myself, solitary, in a culvert under the railway lines.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To channel (a stream of water) through a .

    • sluice

    English

    (wikipedia sluice)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars)
    • Each sluice of affluent fortune opened soon.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars)
    • This home familiarity opens the sluices of sensibility.
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * sluiceway * sluice gate

    Coordinate terms

    * dam * lock * weir

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
    • (Milton)
  • To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
    • (Howitt)
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars)
    • He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.
  • To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
    • to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining
  • To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (washing in mining) pan

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "sluice")

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