(a.) In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Oklahoma City Thunder, like most of the pre-postseason favorites, actually seemed to right themselves in Game 7 of their tougher-than-expected-series with the Memphis Grizzlies.
(2) • Oh, and a lot of this micromanaging was due to the fact that Pera was upset because Joerger and others called off a proposed one-on-one basketball game between the owner and Grizzlies guard Tony Allen .
(3) His defense was a big reason that the Grizzlies' offense was often stymied during the conference finals, so much so that he would probably be a person of interest if basketball investigators looked into the mysterious May disappearance of Grizzles forward Zach Randolph.
(4) The federal government also indicated it would move ahead to remove protections for grizzlies in the Yellowstone area.
(5) And it's that grizzly commitment to glaring and bone-crunching that's made him so internationally bankable.
(6) Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) attacks resulting in human injury and known to have occurred in the national parks of North America were examined.
(7) Meanwhile, in the NBA on Sunday, the Sacramento Kings guard Ben McLemore – a St Louis native – played with “RIP Mike Brown” written on one of his shoes during the team’s 97-85 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.
(8) His reasoning: not “potential grizzlies”, but the constitution.
(9) Swab specimens were obtained from nasal, rectal, and preputial or vaginal areas of 37 grizzly and 17 black bears, captured during May to June of 1981 to 1983, to determine the types and frequency of predominant aerobic microflora.
(10) Gasol was also expected to have an MRI on Saturday after leaving the Grizzlies' 102-86 loss to San Antonio early in the second quarter.
(11) The Buk missile, codenamed "Grizzly" by Nato, was developed by the USSR in the 1970s to shoot down cruise and other missiles.
(12) Disneynature's next big feature also happens to be about grizzly bears; one suspects Herzog won't be getting the call.
(13) In my state, I don’t believe we have grizzly bears,” he said.
(14) After Game 5, the Grizzlies had a 3-2 series lead over the Thunder and were a victory away from handing Oklahoma City an utterly unexpected and confounding opening round loss.
(15) Comparative anatomic studies of the bony labyrinths of humans and those of a full grown pony, zebra, grizzly bear, seal and domestic cow were performed.
(16) The provisional 2012 USA squad for the Games is : LaMarcus Aldridge (Portland Trail Blazers); Carmelo Anthony (New York Knicks); Chauncey Billups (Los Angeles Clippers); Chris Bosh (Miami Heat); Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers); Tyson Chandler (New York Knicks); Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder); Rudy Gay (Memphis Grizzlies); Eric Gordon (New Orleans Hornets); Blake Griffin (Los Angeles Clippers); Dwight Howard (Orlando Magic); Andre Iguodala (Philadelphia 76ers); LeBron James (Miami Heat); Kevin Love (Minnesota Timberwolves); Lamar Odom (Dallas Mavericks); Chris Paul (Los Angeles Clippers); Derrick Rose (Chicago Bulls); Dwyane Wade (Miami Heat); Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City Thunder); and Deron Williams (New Jersey Nets).
(17) That leaves three spots available for four very worthwhile teams: the Golden State Warriors (48-29), Dallas Mavericks (48-31), Phoenix Suns (46-31) and Memphis Grizzlies (45-32).
(18) Western Conference LaMarcus Aldridge, Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers); DeMarcus Cousins (Sacramento Kings); James Harden, Dwight Howard (Houston Rockets); Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks), Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs); Mike Conley (Memphis Grizzlies); Anthony Davis (New Orleans Pelicans): Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors).
(19) Fifty to 60% of the larvae in grizzly bear meat were alive after storage for 27 months at -6.5 to -20 C, and 30% to 50% were still alive at 34 months.
(20) While the Nets did actually end up winning a game, Saturday's 97-88 win over the Memphis Grizzlies, head coach Kidd ended up losing his Hall of Fame forward (Paul Pierce), his assistant coach ( Lawrence Frank, who has been "reassigned" ) and $50,000.
Sluice
Definition:
(n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
(n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
(n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
(n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
(v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
(v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
(v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
Example Sentences:
(1) 20 July 2006: The Tamil Tigers close the sluice gates of an eastern reservoir, cutting water to more than 60,000 people, prompting the government to launch its first major offensive on Tiger territory since the 2002 ceasefire.
(2) The pulmonary vascular resistance increase evoked by nerve stimulation (a) occurred in the absence of tidal air changes; (b) did not consistently differ during predominantly ;sluice' and ;non-sluice' conditions of pulmonary circulation perfusion; (c) was approximately one and a half times greater during constant pressure than during constant volume inflow perfusion of the pulmonary circulation; and (d) was greater during reverse than during forward perfusion.3.
(3) Once neither painfully elitist nor patronisingly populist, Edinburgh in August now threatens to become an oligarchy, a Chipping Norton of the arts, its sluices greased by Foster's lager, rather than by country suppers and police horses.
(4) These data do not support the presence of a "sluice" or "waterfall" effect in the umbilical-placental circulation of the sheep fetus in utero.
(5) So while Sir Gideon was – we are told – browsing and sluicing at a Downing Street dinner, poor Ms Smith was put up against Paxman for some political cage wrestling.
(6) The pulmonary arteries accounted for approximately 50% of vascular resistance upstream from the sluice point when alveolar pressure exceeded venous pressure.
(7) Photos of the boiler room, operating theatre and sluice room spoke of my great-grandfather's practicality and attention to detail; the beautiful Indian flowered bedspreads and carved wooden furniture spoke of my great-grandmother's flamboyant taste.
(8) In the original theory of sheet flow the effect of the tension in the interalveolar septa on the flow through the sluicing gate was ignored.
(9) The Ouse Washes reserve, part of the flood relief system for the Great Ouse river, was hit by flooding after the Environment Agency was forced to open sluices on to the washes to prevent floods elsewhere on the 150-mile river catchment.
(10) Another option being considered was a sluice near Bridgwater to keep the sea tides out of the river network on the Levels.
(11) Meanwhile, back at the car lot, both teams were getting it in the neck for their sloppy sluicing.
(12) The gleaming taps in the sluice rooms, wash rooms and scrubbing-up room are dry and always have been.
(13) It is inferred that these muscle activities and sluice channels facilitate the erection of the penis.
(14) The miners were unable to source the power needed to sluice and dredge or crush the ore.
(15) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
(16) Out of the stadium's sluices flowed hordes of the new classes created by the industrial revolution: workers in overalls, bosses in top hats, arriving to dismantle the rural scene piece by piece, the meadows and the tilled fields making way for an array of vast chimneys emerging from the once fertile earth to reach the height of the stadium rim, their infernal belching smoke replacing the homely cottage hearth and ushering in a world of steam engines and spinning jennys.
(17) But they show as well that a satisfying hygienic standard cannot be arrived without sluice-systems and appropriate air conditioning.
(18) First on its list was dredging the rivers Parrett and Tone, but it also included a tidal sluice barrier on the Parrett.
(19) We assessed the strength of attachment of cultured human vascular endothelial cells to tissue culture plastic by controlled sluicing of cells, grown on multiwell plates, with isotonic saline using a specially designed nozzle attached to a reciprocating pump.
(20) The British had seen no economic value in them and proposed on the 1950s a series of sluices, embankments and canals.