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Sluice vs Pond - What's the difference?

sluice | pond |

As nouns the difference between sluice and pond

is that 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 while pond is an inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

As verbs the difference between sluice and pond

is that sluice is to emit by, or as by, flood gates while pond is to block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.

As a proper noun Pond is

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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")

    References

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    Anagrams

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    pond

    English

    (wikipedia pond)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.
  • *
  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds , and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
  • (lb) The Atlantic Ocean. Especially in across the pond.
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    • Derived terms

    * across the pond * ducks on the pond * Leftpondia * pondian * Rightpondia

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam.
  • * 2004 , Calvin W. Rose, An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds [http://books.google.com/books?id=TxCQ-DaSIwUC], ISBN 0521536790, page 201:
    • The rate of fall of the surface of water ponded over the soil within the ring gives a measure of the infiltration rate for the particular enclosed area.
  • To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
  • (obsolete) To ponder.
  • * Spenser
    • Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.

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