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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun floodgate has 2 senses

• floodgate(n = noun.cognition) - something that restrains a flood or outpouring; "suspension of surveillance opened the floodgates to illegal immigrants"
is a kind of restraint

• floodgate(n = noun.artifact) head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate - regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice;
is a kind of regulator
is a part of penstock, sluice, sluiceway

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

floodgate

aboideau, air lock, avenue, blowhole, channel, chute, debouch, dock gate, door, egress, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, flood-hatch, flume, gate, head gate, lock, lock gate, loophole, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, penstock, pore, port, sally port, sluice, sluice gate, spiracle, spout, tap, tide gate, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, water gate, way out, weir

ROGET THESAURUS

floodgate

Limit

N limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation, termination, terminus, stint, frontier, precinct, marches, backwoods, boundary line, landmark, line of demarcation, line of circumvallation, pillars of Hercules, Rubicon, turning point, ne plus ultra, sluice, floodgate, definite, conterminate, conterminable, terminal, frontier, bordering, thus far, thus far and no further, stick to the reservation, go beyond the pale, Special.

Egress

N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.