different between sluice vs gote

English

Etymology

From Middle English sluse, alteration of scluse, from Anglo-Norman escluse (“sluice, floodgate”), from Late Latin exclusa (“extrusion, gate”), from Latin excl?sus, form of excl?d? (“I shut out, I exclude”) (English exclude). Cognate to Dutch sluis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slu?s/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /slju?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

sluice (plural sluices)

1. 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.
2. A water gate or floodgate.
3. Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
   • 1767, Walter Harte, Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason

     Each sluice of affluent fortune open'd soon.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     This home familiarity […] opens the sluices of sensibility.

4. The stream flowing through a floodgate.
5. (mining) A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
6. (linguistics) An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.

Derived terms

• sluiceway
• sluice gate

Coordinate terms

• dam
• lock
• weir

Translations

Verb

sluice (third-person singular simple present sluices, present participle sluicing, simple past and past participle sluiced)

1. (transitive, rare) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
2. (transitive) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
   • 1855, William Howitt, Land, Labour and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria

     Nine - mile Creek has been dug out again and again , and has been sluiced three times

   • 1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan & Co., Chapter XIII, [1]

     […] he dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water.

   • 1993, Paul Theroux, Millroy the Magician, p. 61,

     Millroy often described his kidneys—how he flushed them out. His lungs—the way he hyperventilated them. His heart—how he got it pumping, sluicing its gates and chambers.

   • 2000, Laurel E. Fay, Shostakovich: A Life, Oxford University Press, Chapter 7, p. 120,

     Many years later, in 1953, Shostakovich summarized his dissatisfactions with the competition more bluntly: "Rimsky-Korsakov groomed, waved, and sluiced Musorgsky with eau de cologne. My orchestration is crude, in keeping with Musorgsky."

3. (transitive) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice.

   to sluice earth or gold dust in a sluice box in placer mining

4. (transitive, more generally) To wash (down or out).
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 1, [2]

     […] he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death, / Suggest his soon-believing adversaries, / And consequently, like a traitor coward, / Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood

   • 1910, Lord Dunsany, "Bethmoora" in A Dreamer's Tales, London: George Allen & Sons, p. 68, [3]

     And now men with a hose have come and are sluicing out the streets.

   • 1977, Timothy Findley, The Wars, Penguin Canada, 1985, p. 60,

     He also organized a bucket brigade for sluicing down the decks.

5. (intransitive) To flow, pour.
   • 1932, Robinson Jeffers, "Thurso's Landing" in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, p. 311, [4]

     In the trough behind the white wave / Helen shook her dark head, the water sluiced from her shoulders / And rose-tipped breasts.

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 23, [5]

     Out of sight of the houses he took off his clothes and let the rain sluice down on his bare body.

   • 1980, Peter De Vries, Consenting Adults, or The Duchess Will Be Furious, Penguin, Chapter Twelve, pp. 185-6,

     these are often my thoughts as my partner or my vis-a-vis spoons a berry into her mouth and I imagine it—see and hear it being chewed, the red juice running from its bursting pulp over her tongue, mingling with her saliva, slipping through the crevices between her teeth before sluicing down her throat and into her bloodstream.

   • 1986, Tanith Lee, Delirium's Mistress, New York: Daw Books, Book Two, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 240,

     The huge things which had already careered into flight, they were enormous slothful sacks of billowing skin, and where the light sluiced over their bodies, they glimmered acid-blue and bronze.

6. (linguistics) To elide the complement in a coordinated wh-question. See sluicing.

Coordinate terms

• (washing in mining): pan

Translations

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sluice.

References

• sluice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• lucies

English

Alternative forms

• gout

Etymology

From Middle English gote (“a drain”), from Old English *gote (“drain, gutter”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *gut? (“gutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ewd- (“to pour”).

Cognate with Dutch goot (“a gutter, drain, gully”), German Gosse (“a gutter”). Related to Old English gutt (“gut, entrails”), Old English ??otan (“to pour, pour forth, shed, gush, flow, flood, overwhelm, found, cast”). More at gut, yote.

Noun

gote (plural gotes)

1. A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
2. (Britain dialectal) A drainage pipe.
3. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A deep miry place.

Related terms

• gotch
• ingot

Anagrams

• EGOT, toge

Dutch

Verb

gote

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of gieten

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Noun

gote f (plural gutis)

1. drop

Italian

Noun

gote f

1. plural of gota

Adjective

gote

1. feminine plural of goto

Middle English

Noun

gote

1. Alternative form of goot

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²?o?t?/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: gåte

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gata f, from Proto-Germanic *gatw? (“street, passage”). Doublet of gate. Akin to Faroese gøta.

Alternative forms

• gutu
• gota (non-standard since 2012)
• gòtu (Midlandsnormalen)

Noun

gote f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter, definite plural gotene)

2. a path, trail
4. a passage with a fence or gate on either side

   Synonyms: geil, allé

Etymology 2

A kind of blend of gote f (“path”) and gatt n (“hole”), and gjot. The verb is derived from the noun.

Alternative forms

• (verb): gota (a- and split infinitives)

Noun

gote f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter, definite plural gotene)

1. a hole

Verb

gote (present tense gotar, past tense gota, past participle gota, passive infinitive gotast, present participle gotande, imperative got)

1. (transitive) to make a hole (in)

Etymology 3

From the noun got n (“spawn”).

Alternative forms

• gota (a- and split infinitives)

Verb

gote (present tense gotar, past tense gota, past participle gota, passive infinitive gotast, present participle gotande, imperative got)

1. (transitive, zoology) to spawn

   Synonym: gyte

Etymology 4

From Old Norse goti, from Proto-Germanic *gutô.

Noun

gote m (definite singular goten, indefinite plural gotar, definite plural gotane)

1. form removed by a 2016 spelling decision; superseded by gotar

References

• “gote” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• toge

Old French

Alternative forms

• goute
• goutte (chiefly late Old French)
• gute

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u.t?/

Noun

gote f (oblique plural gotes, nominative singular gote, nominative plural gotes)

1. drop (of liquid)

Related terms

• gotiere

Descendants

• English: gout, goutte
• Middle French: goutte
  • French: goutte
• Norman: goute