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Definition of 'Flood'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) flood
a great flowing or overflowing of water, esp. over land not usu. submerged.

2.  flood
any great outpouring or stream:
a flood of tears.

3.  flood
the Flood, a universal deluge mentioned in various ancient religions, esp. the deluge recorded in the Bible as having occurred in the time of Noah (Gen. 7).

4.  flood
the rise or flowing in of the tide

5.  flood
a floodlight.

6.  flood
Archaic. a large body of water.

7. (v.t.) flood
to cover with a flood; fill to overflowing.

8.  flood
to cover or fill as if with a flood:
roads flooded with cars.

9.  flood
to overwhelm with an abundance of something:
to be flooded with mail.

10.  flood
to supply too much fuel to (the carburetor), so that the engine fails to start.

11.  flood
to floodlight.

12. (v.i.) flood
to flow or pour in or as if in a flood.

13.  flood
to rise in a flood; overflow.

14.  flood
to become flooded.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME flod (n.), OE flōd; c. OFris, OS flōd, OHG fluot)

Definition of 'Flood'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion
the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
"plains fertilized by annual inundations"

2. (noun) flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
an overwhelming number or amount
"a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"

3. (noun) flood, floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood
light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography

4. (noun) flood, overflow, outpouring
a large flow

5. (noun) flood, flowage
the act of flooding; filling to overflowing

6. (verb) flood tide, flood, rising tide
the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
"a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare

7. (verb) deluge, flood, inundate, swamp
fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
"the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"

8. (verb) flood
cover with liquid, usually water
"The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"

9. (verb) flood, oversupply, glut
supply with an excess of
"flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"

10. (verb) flood
become filled to overflowing
"Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"

Definition of 'Flood'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) flood
when an area of land is completely covered by water
houses that were destroyed in the floods; natural disasters such as flood and fire

2. flood
a large number of people or things coming at the same time
a flood of bills in the mail; a flood of emotion

3. (verb) flood
to cover or become covered with water
The path had been flooded by the river.; The building was flooded.

4. flood
to fill a place or arrive in large numbers
Sunlight flooded the bedroom.; refugees flooding into the camps; The school has been flooded with complaints.

Definition of 'Flood'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) Flood
a great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation

2. (verb) Flood
the flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood

3. (verb) Flood
a great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency

4. (verb) Flood
menstrual disharge; menses

5. (verb) Flood
to overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley

6. (verb) Flood
to cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency

Definitions of 'Flood'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. Flood
[common]

1. To overwhelm a network channel with mechanically-generated traffic; especially used of IP, TCP/IP, UDP, or ICMP denial-of-service attacks.

2. To dump large amounts of text onto an IRC channel. This is especially rude when the text is uninteresting and the other users are trying to carry on a serious conversation. Also used in a similar sense on Usenet.

3. [Usenet] To post an unusually large number or volume of files on a related topic.

Translation of 'Flood'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a great overflow of water If it continues to rain like this, we shall have floods.
Afrikaans: vloed; oorstromings	Arabic: طوفان، فَيَضان	Bulgarian: потоп
Brazilian: inundação	Czech: povodeň	German: dieÜberschwemmung
Danish: oversvømmelse	Greek: πλημύρα	Spanish: inundación
Estonian: (vee)uputus	Farsi: سیل	Finnish: tulva
French: inondation	Hebrew: שִיטָפוֹן	Hindi: बाढ़, पानी भर जाना
Croatian: poplava	Hungarian: ár(víz)	Indonesian: air bah
Icelandic: flóð	Italian: inondazione, allagamento	Japanese: 洪水
Korean: 홍수	Lithuanian: potvynis	Latvian: plūdi
Malay: banjir	Dutch: overstroming	Norwegian: flom, oversvømmelse, høyv
Polish: powódź	Persian: سیل	Pashto: سيلاب، نيز، مد
Portuguese: inundação	Romanian: inundaţie	Russian: наводнение
Slovak: povodeň	Slovenian: poplava	Serbian: poplava
Swedish: översvämning	Thai: น้ำท่วม	Turkish: sel
Taiwanese: 水災，洪水	Ukrainian: повінь	Urdu: سیلاب
Vietnamese: cơn lũ lụt	Chinese: 水灾，洪水
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