sluicing (English, noun)
expansion: sluicing (plural sluicings)
Senses:
glosses: The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: 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".
Forms:
form: sluicings
tags: plural