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• n  something that restrains a flood or outpouring
  suspension of surveillance opened the floodgates to illegal immigrants
• n  regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice

• But he had done something else as well: he had raised an emotional floodgate for a piece of vital legislation that has been dammed too long by Senate rules and procedure.
• If the court rules this way, it could open the floodgate to a wave of challenges to many of the moderate regulations that most Americans support.
• He contends that almost every young child has a "built-in rage for learning" and that parents have "a sacred duty to open the floodgate of all basic knowledge to him.

• sluicegate
• sluice valve
• penstock
• head gate
• water gate

News & Articles

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• Corps closing floodgate as rivers rise
  MISSISSIPPI DELTA — A Mississippi floodgate is closing again because water levels are rising on the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.
  June 9, 2013 - Mississippi Business Journal
• Officials again close Steele Bayou floodgate - WXVT-TV Delta News - More Local News and Weather WXVT.com |
  VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi floodgate is closing again because water levels are rising on the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.
  June 8, 2013 - WXVT 15 Greenville
• Officials again close Steele Bayou floodgate
  A Mississippi floodgate is closing again because water levels are rising on the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.
  June 8, 2013 - KPLC Lake Charles

Quotes

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• Al Gore in MTV.com
  The Internet opened a floodgate for young people whose passions are finally being heard, but TV hasn't followed suit,said Gore, who also serves as the network's chairman. "Young adults have a powerful voice, but you can't hear that voice...
• Atiku Abubakar in Vanguard
  Atiku noted that ever since the visit, there had been an "incredible floodgate of reactions from my friends, political associates, newspaper columnists and other concerned Nigerians."
• AJ McLean in California Chronicle
  That opened this huge floodgate of pop music,McLean says. "That's happening all over again. It seems to happen every 10 years. Pop has changed where it's [artists like] Chris Brown and Rihanna, and that's still pop. It's definitely huge...