Difference between Floodgate and Penstock
What is the difference between Floodgate and Penstock?
Floodgate as a noun is an adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice. while Penstock as a noun is a sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.
Floodgate
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.
Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion etc.
Penstock
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A sluice or pipe which allows the controlled flow of water from behind a dam, typically routing it to a turbine of a power plant.
We hope you now know whether to use Floodgate or Penstock in your sentence.
