sluicing

Thân thiện

The heavy rain was sluicing down the windowpane.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Flowing rapidly and in large quantities, as if from a sluice or channel: Describes a heavy, pouring, and often forceful flow of liquid, most commonly water or rain.

Usage

The adjective "sluicing" is used to describe the manner in which a liquid falls or flows. It emphasizes volume, force, and a continuous, channeled quality. It is most frequently applied to weather conditions involving heavy rain.

Examples

• Adjective:
  • We had to wait inside because of the sluicing rain.
  • The sluicing water from the broken main flooded the street.
  • After the storm, sluicing runoff poured down the hillside.

Advanced Usage

• Figurative Use: Can be used metaphorically to describe anything that flows in a similarly heavy, relentless stream.
  • The report contained a sluicing torrent of criticism.
  • Sluicing data from the new sensor overwhelmed the network.

Variants and Related Words

• Sluice (verb): To wash or pour water over or through something, or to flow out rapidly.
  • They sluiced the deck with hoses.
• Sluice (noun): An artificial channel for carrying water, often fitted with a gate to control the flow.
  • They opened the sluice to drain the reservoir.

Synonyms

• Pouring
• Torrential
• Cascading
• Gushing

Related Phrases

• Sluicing down: A phrasal verb describing rain falling very heavily.
  • It's been sluicing down all afternoon.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. pouring from or as if from a sluice
   • the sluicing rain