floodgate

floodgate englannista suomeksi

1. patoluukku, portti

2. sulku, sulkuportti

0. Substantiivi

1. tulvaluukku

2. portti

floodgate englanniksi

1. An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.

2. (quote-book)|page=31|text=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.

3. Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion etc.

4. {{quote-journal|en|date=1981-07-26|work=New York Times|author=Sandra Salmans|title=Will cable TV be invaded by commercials?|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-invaded-by-commercials.html

5. A stream that passes through a floodgate; a torrent.

6. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

7. (quote-book)|author=Daniell Price|location=Oxford|section=Lib. 2 Cap. 3|page=237|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Defence_of_Truth_Against_a_Booke_Fal/M7JkAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0|pageurl=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Defence_of_Truth_Against_a_Booke_Fal/M7JkAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA237&printsec=frontcover|passage=The accuſation conſiſting of thoſe three articles, was moſt true: your ''doctrine'' was ſcādalous, it offred much offence, being generally diſtaſted; and was erroneous, being detected to be the floodgate of ''Traitors ſtaiers'', looſing in ſome ''ſuppoſititious'' doctrines, and many ''blaſphemous'' arrogating much to man, derogating much from God.