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Sluicing vs Spilling - What's the difference?

sluicing | spilling |

As verbs the difference between sluicing and spilling

is that sluicing is while spilling is .

As nouns the difference between sluicing and spilling

is that sluicing is the act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching while spilling is the act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles.

sluicing

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia sluicing)
  • The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
  • (linguistics) A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why".

    • spilling

    English

    Noun

  • The act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles.
  • * 2005 , Margaret E. Owens, Stages of Dismemberment (page 58)
    • Such a notion identified woman with breaches in boundaries, with lack of shape or definition, with openings and exudings and spillings forth.
  • (figuratively) The action of spreading out in the manner of a fluid.

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