English Explanatory Dictionary

sluicing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. present participle and gerund of sluice
noun
  1. The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
  2. A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause.

Word forms

sluicing sluicings

Etymology

(linguistics): Coined by American linguist John R. Ross.

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