floodgate
nounEtymology
From Middle English flodegate, flodgate, flodeyate, floodȝate, flodȝete, equivalent to flood + gate.
- inherited from flodegate
Definitions
An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.
- At the start of the Second World War floodgates would be installed at the ends of the under-Thames sections of the Bakerloo and Northern lines to save them from inundation should bombs damage the riverbed.
Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion, etc.
- “The floodgates for advertising on cable are down,” says Michael Dann, a leading consultant on cable television.
A stream that passes through a floodgate
A stream that passes through a floodgate; a torrent.
- Out of her gored wound the cruell ſteel / He lightly ſnatcht, and did the floodgate ſtop / VVith his faire garment: then gan ſoftly feel her feeble pulſe, to proue if any drop / Of liuing blood yet in her veynes did hop
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A series of allegations of corruption, mismanagement, and irregularities in flood control…
A series of allegations of corruption, mismanagement, and irregularities in flood control projects in the Philippines during and before the administration of President Bongbong Marcos.
The neighborhood
- neighborsluice gate
- neighborwater gate
- neighborwatergate
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for floodgate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA