[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
flooded flooding 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

flood \flood\ flu^d, n. oe. flod a flowing, stream, flood,
   as. fl=od; akin to d. vloed, os. fl=od, ohg. fluot, g.
   flut, icel. fl=oeth, sw.  dan. flod, goth. fl=odus;
   from the root of e. flow. root80. 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.
      1913 webster

            a covenant never to destroy
            the earth again by flood.             --milton.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            there is a tide in the affairs of men,
            which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   4. menstrual disharge; menses. --harvey.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
flow ebb flood anchor flood fence flood gate flood mark 
flood tide ebb tide the flood 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

flood
     n 1: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto
          normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual
          inundations" syn: inundation, deluge, alluvion
     2: an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a
        torrent of abuse" syn: inundation, deluge, torrent
     3: light that is a source of artificial illumination having a
        broad beam; used in photography syn: floodlight, flood
        lamp, photoflood
     4: a large flow syn: overflow, outpouring
     5: the act of flooding; filling to overflowing syn: flowage
     6: the inward flow of the tide; "a tide in the affairs of men
        which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"
        -shakespeare
     v 1: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the
          basement was inundated after the storm"; "the images
          flooded his mind" syn: deluge, 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" syn: oversupply, glut
     4: become filled to overflowing; "our basement flooded during
        the heavy rains"
see also:
inundation deluge alluvion torrent floodlight flood lamp 
photoflood overflow outpouring flowage inundate 
swamp oversupply glut 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

352 moby thesaurus words for "flood":
   niagara, abundance, access, accession, accretion, accrual,
   accruement, accumulation, acres, addition, advance, affluence,
   aggrandizement, alluvion, alluvium, ample sufficiency, ampleness,
   amplification, amplitude, appreciation, arc, arc light, army,
   ascent, augmentation, avalanche, bags, ballooning, barrels,
   be prodigal with, bloating, bonanza, boom, boost, bountifulness,
   bountiousness, brash, broadening, buildup, bumper crop,
   burst of rain, bushel, cascade, cataclysm, cataract, choke,
   cloudburst, cluster, cohue, color filter, copiousness,
   countlessness, course, cover, crescendo, crowd, crush, current,
   debacle, deluge, development, dimmer, dip, direct tide, downfall,
   downflow, downpour, drencher, drift, drown, duck, dunk, ebb,
   ebb and flow, ebb tide, edema, elevation, embarras de richesses,
   engulf, engulfment, enlargement, enough, excess, expansion,
   extension, extravagance, extravagancy, exuberance, fertility, fill,
   float, floats, flock, flood the market, flood tide, flooding,
   floodlight, flow, flow back, flow in, flow on, flow out, flush,
   flux, flux and reflux, foison, footlights, foots, fresh, freshet,
   full measure, full tide, fullness, gain, galaxy, gelatin,
   generosity, generousness, glut, great abundance, great plenty,
   greatening, growth, gush, gushing rain, heap, heavy rain,
   high tide, high water, hike, horde, host, immerse, increase,
   increment, inflation, inundate, inundation, issue, jam, jump,
   klieg light, know no bounds, landslide, lavishness, leap, legion,
   liberality, liberalness, light plot, lights, limelight, load, lots,
   low tide, low water, lunar tide, luxuriance, luxuriate, make,
   marquee, mass, maximum, medium, mob, money to burn,
   more than enough, mountain, mounting, much, multiplication,
   multitude, myriad, myriads, neap, neap tide, nimiety, numerousness,
   ocean, oceans, opposite tide, opulence, opulency, outpouring,
   overabound, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness,
   overbrim, overcopiousness, overdose, overequip, overflow,
   overflowing, overfurnish, overgrow, overlavish, overlavishness,
   overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness,
   overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion,
   overprovender, overprovide, overprovision, overrun, overrunning,
   oversell, overspill, overspread, overstock, oversufficiency,
   oversupply, overswarm, overwhelm, panoply, peck, permeate, plash,
   plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, pour,
   pour on, pour out, pour over, press, prevalence, prodigality,
   productiveness, profuseness, profusion, proliferation, pullulate,
   quantities, quantity, rabble, rain, rainburst, rainspout,
   rainstorm, raise, redundancy, refluence, reflux, regurgitate,
   repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot,
   riotousness, rip, riptide, rise, river, rout, ruck, run, run over,
   run riot, rush, satiety, saturate, scads, scud, sea, set, shower,
   slop, slosh, sluice, snowballing, soaker, soaking rain, solar tide,
   spate, spill, spill out, spill over, spillage, spot, spotlight,
   spout, spread, spring tide, stream, submerge, submersion,
   substantiality, substantialness, superabound, superabundance,
   superfluity, superflux, surfeit, surge, surge back, surplus, swamp,
   swarm, sweep, swelling, teem, teemingness, thalassometer,
   the deluge, the flood, throng, tidal amplitude, tidal current,
   tidal current chart, tidal flow, tidal range, tidal wave, tide,
   tide chart, tide gate, tide gauge, tide race, tide rip, tidewater,
   tideway, tons, torrent, torrent of rain, trend, tumescence, up,
   upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, volume, washout,
   waterflood, waterspout, waxing, wealth, whelm, whelming, widening,
   world, worlds

[5] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

flood v. 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.


see also:
irc 

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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
     
     
see also:
tcp/ip irc bandwidth pingflood clonebot botwar 
jargon file 

[7] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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.
   
see also:
deluge 

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