sluicing
Definition
- 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.
Adjective
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pouring from or as if from a sluice
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the sluicing rain
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