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flood 
[fluhd] Pronunciation Key
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[fluhd] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | a great flowing or overflowing of water, esp. over land not usually submerged. |
| 2. | any great outpouring or stream: a flood of tears. |
| 3. | the Flood, the universal deluge recorded as having occurred in the days of Noah. Gen. 7. |
| 4. | the rise or flowing in of the tide (opposed to ebb). |
| 5. | a floodlight. |
| 6. | Archaic. a large body of water. |
| 7. | to overflow in or cover with a flood; fill to overflowing: Don't flood the bathtub. |
| 8. | to cover or fill, as if with a flood: The road was flooded with cars. |
| 9. | to overwhelm with an abundance of something: to be flooded with mail. |
| 10. | Automotive. to supply too much fuel to (the carburetor), so that the engine fails to start. |
| 11. | to floodlight. |
| 12. | to flow or pour in or as if in a flood. |
| 13. | to rise in a flood; overflow. |
| 14. | Pathology.
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[Origin: bef. 900; ME flod (n.), OE flōd; c. Goth flōdus, OHG fluot (G Flut)]
] —Related forms
flood·a·ble, adjective
flooder, noun
floodless, adjective
floodlike, adjective
—Synonyms 1. Flood, flash flood, deluge, freshet, inundation refer to the overflowing of normally dry areas, often after heavy rains. Flood is usually applied to the overflow of a great body of water, as, for example, a river, although it may refer to any water that overflows an area: a flood along the river; a flood in a basement. A flash flood is one that comes so suddenly that no preparation can be made against it; it is usually destructive, but begins almost at once to subside: a flash flood caused by a downpour. Deluge suggests a great downpouring of water, sometimes with destruction: The rain came down in a deluge. Freshet suggests a small, quick overflow such as that caused by heavy rains: a freshet in an abandoned watercourse. Inundation, a literary word, suggests the covering of a great area of land by water: the inundation of thousands of acres. 8, 9. inundate, deluge.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| flood
(flŭd) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. flood·ed, flood·ing, floods v. tr.
v. intr.
[Middle English flod, from Old English flōd; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
flood (n.)
flood (n.)
O.E. flod "a flowing of water, river, sea, flood," from P.Gmc. *flothuz (cf. O.Fris. flod, O.N. floð, M.Du. vloet, Ger. Flut, Goth. fiodus), from PIE verbal stem *plo-/*pleu- "flow, float" (cf. Gk. ploein "to float, swim," plotos "floating, navigable"). The verb is first attested 1663. Floodgate (c.1225) is earlier recorded in the fig. sense (especially with reference to tears or rain) than in the literal sense (1440).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| flood | |
noun | |
| 1. | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" |
| 2. | an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" |
| 3. | light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography |
| 4. | a large flow |
| 5. | the act of flooding; filling to overflowing |
| 6. | 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 [syn: flood tide] [ant: ebbtide] |
verb | |
| 1. | fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind" [syn: deluge] |
| 2. | cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes" |
| 3. | supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" |
| 4. | become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains" |
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The American Heritage Science Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| flood
(flŭd) Pronunciation Key
A temporary rise of the water level, as in a river or lake or along a seacoast, resulting in its spilling over and out of its natural or artificial confines onto land that is normally dry. Floods are usually caused by excessive runoff from precipitation or snowmelt, or by coastal storm surges or other tidal phenomena. Floods are sometimes described according to their statistical occurrence. A fifty-year flood is a flood having a magnitude that is reached in a particular location on average once every fifty years. In any given year there is a two percent statistical chance of the occurrence of a fifty-year flood and a one percent chance of a hundred-year flood.
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Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This
flood chat
On a real-time network (whether at the level of TCP/IP, or at the level of, say, IRC), to send a huge amount of data to another user (or a group of users, in a channel) in an attempt to annoy him, lock his terminal, or to overflow his network buffer and thus lose his network connection.
The basic principles of flooding are that you should have better network bandwidth than the person you're trying to flood, and that what you do to flood them (e.g., generate ping requests) should be *less* resource-expensive for your machine to produce than for the victim's machine to deal with. There is also the corrolary that you should avoid being caught.
Failure to follow these principles regularly produces hilarious results, e.g., an IRC user flooding himself off the network while his intended victim is unharmed, the attacker's flood attempt being detected, and him being banned from the network in semi-perpetuity.
See also pingflood, clonebot and botwar.
[The Jargon File]
(1997-04-07)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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flood
v. [common; IRC] 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.
Jargon File 4.2.0
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Flood
Flood\, n. [OE. flod a flowing, stream, flood, AS. fl[=o]d; akin to D. vloed, OS. fl[=o]d, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. fl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. fl[=o]dus; from the root of E. flow. [root]80. See Flow, v. i.]1. 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. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. --Milton. 2. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak. 3. 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. Menstrual disharge; menses. --Harvey. Flood anchor (Naut.), the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising. Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood. Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate. Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark. Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide. The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Flood
Flood\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Flooding.]1. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley. 2. 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Flood
an event recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. (See DELUGE.) In Josh. 24:2, 3, 14, 15, the word "flood" (R.V., "river") means the river Euphrates. In Ps. 66:6, this word refers to the river Jordan.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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