how to pronounce sluice

/sluːs/

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sluice is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of sluice in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… have to open this sluice to fill the …”

meanings of sluice

noun:

The stream flowing through a floodgate.
A water gate or floodgate.
An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

verb:

To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice.
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.
To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
To wash (down or out).
To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.
To flow, pour.

sluice frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word sluice occurs in english on average 0.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics sluice can be related to

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1) business and work;

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3) life, nature, and living environment;