floodgates in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for floodgates in the English»Spanish Dictionary

floodgate [Am ˈflədˌɡeɪt, Brit ˈflʌdɡeɪt] N

floodgate

compuerta f

floodgate

esclusa f

to open the floodgates to sth

abrirle las puertas a algo

Translations for floodgates in the Spanish»English Dictionary

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floodgates in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for floodgates in the English»Spanish Dictionary

floodgate [ˈflʌdgeɪt] N fig

to open the floodgates to sth

abrir las puertas a algo

floodgates Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to open the floodgates to sth

abrir las puertas a algo

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

In the fifth, the floodgates opened.

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It also opened the floodgates of other businesses to go public with tales of being hassled by language inspectors.

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The floodgates were raised as a precaution.

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The new dam also had eight floodgates, and a pedestrian walkaway with railing was along the dam's crest to give maintenance workers access to the flashboards and dam.

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During the monsoon the dam opens its floodgates to control the water and one can witness the power of water when many floodgates of the dam are opened.

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But in the second-half the floodgates opened.

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He showed pace, power and vision to run, swivel and crash over the line with his try then signalling the way for the floodgates to open.

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Fifty-seven floodgates surround the entire complex.

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Primarily farmers and fishers, settlers organized in the mid-1990s to eliminate disastrous flooding, aggravated when floodgates upstream were opened without warning to the settlers along the river delta below.

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The dam's spillway contains eight floodgates each with a maximum discharge capacity of for a total of.

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