Sluice vs Slice - What's the difference?
sluice | slice |
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.
That which is thin and broad.
A thin, broad piece cut off.
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A piece of pizza.
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(British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
A broad, thin piece of plaster.
A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
A salver, platter, or tray.
A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
(printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
(golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
(Australia, NZ) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
(medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
(falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
To cut into slices.
To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
(golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
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To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
In lang=en terms the difference between sluice and slice
is that sluice is to emit by, or as by, flood gates while slice is to hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).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)
- (Howitt)
- 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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English
Noun
(en noun)- a slice''' of bacon''; ''a '''slice''' of cheese''; ''a '''slice of bread
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- For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
- I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
Derived terms
* hypersliceVerb
(slic)- Slice the cheese thinly.
- The knife left sliced his arm.
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