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English Dictionary: flood by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flood
n
  1. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
    Synonym(s): flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion
  2. an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
    Synonym(s): flood, inundation, deluge, torrent
  3. light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
    Synonym(s): flood, floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood
  4. a large flow
    Synonym(s): flood, overflow, outpouring
  5. the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
    Synonym(s): flood, flowage
  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
    Synonym(s): flood tide, flood, rising tide
    Antonym(s): ebbtide
v
  1. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
    Synonym(s): deluge, flood, inundate, swamp
  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"
    Synonym(s): flood, oversupply, glut
  4. become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Flood \Flood\, n. [OE. flod a flowing, stream, flood, AS.
      fl[omac]d; akin to D. vloed, OS. fl[omac]d, OHG. fluot, G.
      flut, Icel. fl[omac][edh], Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth.
      fl[omac]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.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   flood
  
      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}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
      (1997-04-07)
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   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.
     
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