sluicing

English

Verb

sluicing

1. present participle and gerund of sluice

Noun

sluicing (plural sluicings)

1. The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
2. (linguistics) A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why".

Translations

act of sluicing

• Finnish: kastelu (fi); (mining) rännitys