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

surge \surge\, v. i.
   1. to swell; to rise hifg and roll.
      1913 webster

            the surging waters like a mountain rise. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. naut. to slip along a windlass.
      1913 webster

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

surge \surge\, n. l. surgere, surrectum, to raise, to rise; sub
   under + regere to direct: cf. of. surgeon, sourgeon,
   fountain. see regent, and cf. insurrection, sortie,
   source.
   1. a spring; a fountain. obs. "divers surges and springs of
      water." --ld. berners.
      1913 webster

   2. a large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water,
      produced generally by a high wind.
      1913 webster

            he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven
            by the wind and tossed.               --james i. 6
                                                  rev. ver.
      1913 webster

            he flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar,
            pursues the foaming surges to the shore. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. the motion of, or produced by, a great wave.
      1913 webster

   4. the tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon
      which the cable surges, or slips.
      1913 webster
see also:
regent insurrection sortie source 

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

surge \surge\, v. t. imp.  p. p. surged; p. pr.  vb. n.
   surging. cf. f. surgir to cast anchor, to land. cf.
   surge, n. naut.
   to let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a
   hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about a
   capstan.
   1913 webster
see also:
surged surging surge 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

surge
     n 1: a sudden forceful flow syn: rush, spate, upsurge
     2: a sudden or abrupt strong increase; "stimulated a surge of
        speculation"; "an upsurge of emotion"; "an upsurge in
        violent crime" syn: upsurge
     3: a large sea wave syn: billow
     v 1: rise and move, as in waves or billows; "the army surged
          forward" syn: billow, heave
     2: rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yes" syn: soar,
         soar up, soar upwards, zoom
     3: rise or move foward; "surging waves" syn: tide ant: ebb
     4: rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force
        such as a wave; "the boats surged" syn: scend
     5: see one's performance improve; "he levelled the score and
        then surged ahead"
see also:
rush spate upsurge billow heave soar 
soar up soar upwards zoom tide ebb 
scend 

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

330 moby thesaurus words for "surge":
   charybdis, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement,
   accumulation, addition, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion,
   aggrandizement, amplification, anabasis, appreciation, arise,
   ascend, ascension, ascent, assemble, augmentation, awake the dead,
   ballooning, be poised, billow, blast, blast the ear, bloating,
   blow out, boom, boost, bore, break, breaker, breakers, broadening,
   buildup, bulge, bunch, bunch up, centrifugate, centrifuge, chop,
   choppiness, chopping sea, clamber, climb, climbing, clot, cluster,
   collect, comb, comber, come together, come up, concourse,
   confluence, conflux, congregate, converge, copulate, couple,
   course, crash, crescendo, crosscurrent, crowd, curl upwards,
   current, dash, date, deafen, defluxion, development, din,
   dirty water, dizzy round, downflow, downpour, drain, drain out,
   drift, driftage, eagre, ebb, ebb and flow, eddy, edema, elevation,
   empty, enlargement, escalade, exhaust, expansion, extension,
   fill the air, find vent, flock together, flood, flow, flow back,
   flow in, flow out, flow together, flowing, fluency, flush, flux,
   forgather, fountain, fullness, fuse, gain, gang around, gang up,
   gather, gather around, go up, gravity wave, greatening,
   ground swell, grow up, growth, gurge, gush, gush out, gyre,
   gyring up, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, herd together, hike,
   hive, horde, huddle, increase, increment, inflation, inflow,
   intensity, issue, jet, jump, league, leap, levitate, levitation,
   lift, link, loom, lop, loudishness, loudness, maelstrom, make,
   mass, meet, merge, mill, mill run, millrace, mount, mounting,
   multiplication, muster, onrush, onward course, outflow, outpour,
   peak, peal, pirouette, play, popple, pour, pour out,
   productiveness, proliferation, pulsate, race, raise, rally,
   rally around, rat race, rattle the windows, rear, rear up, reel,
   regurgitate, rend the air, rend the ears, rendezvous, resound,
   riffle, ring, ripple, rise, rise and fall, rise up, rising,
   rock the sky, rocketing up, roll, roller, rough water, round, run,
   run out, rush, saltation, scend, sea, seethe, send, set,
   shooting up, sluice, sluice out, smash, snowballing, soaring,
   sonority, sonorousness, spate, spew, spew out, spin, spiral, spire,
   spit, split the eardrums, split the ears, spout, spout out, spray,
   spread, spring, spritz, spurt, spurtle, squirt, stand up,
   startle the echoes, stream, stun, surf, surge back, surge of sound,
   swarm, swarm up, sweep up, swell, swelling, swirl, takeoff,
   taking off, throng, thunder, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide,
   tide wave, toss, tower, trend, trough, tsunami, tumescence, turn,
   twirl, undercurrent, undertow, undulate, undulation, unite, up,
   upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrow,
   upgrowth, upheave, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise,
   uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspin, upstream, upsurge,
   upsurgence, upswarm, upsweep, upswing, uptrend, upturn, upwind,
   vault, volume, vomit, vomit forth, vomit out, vortex, water flow,
   water wave, wave, wavelet, waxing, well, well out, wheel, whirl,
   whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, white horses, whitecaps, widening,
   zooming

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

surge
     
        sorter, updater, report generator, etc.  ibm 704, 1959.
        sammet 1969, p.8.
     
     

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