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F0191300 (flŭd)n.1. An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry.2. A flood tide.3. A large amount or number, especially when moving from one place to another: received a flood of applications. See Synonyms at flow.4. A floodlight, specifically a unit that produces a beam of intense light.5. Flood In the Bible, the covering of the earth with water that occurred during the time of Noah. v. flood·ed, flood·ing, floods v.tr.1. To cover or submerge with water; inundate: The town was flooded when the dam burst.2. To move into or fill in large numbers or amounts: People flooded the square. His inbox was flooded with mail.3. To overwhelm in large numbers: The theater was flooded with ticket requests.4. To put too much fuel into the carburetor of (an engine), resulting in unsuccessful ignition.v.intr.1. To become inundated or submerged: The underpass floods after a heavy rain.2. To pour forth; overflow: The river floods nearly every spring.

[Middle English flod, from Old English flōd; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]

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(flʌd) n1. (Physical Geography) a. the inundation of land that is normally dry through the overflowing of a body of water, esp a riverb. the state of a river that is at an abnormally high level (esp in the phrase in flood). diluvial2. a great outpouring or flow: a flood of words. 3. (Physical Geography) a. the rising of the tide from low to high waterb. (as modifier): the flood tide. Compare ebb³4. (Theatre) theatre short for floodlight5. archaic a large body of water, as the sea or a rivervb6. (Physical Geography) (of water) to inundate or submerge (land) or (of land) to be inundated or submerged7. to fill or be filled to overflowing, as with a flood: the children's home was flooded with gifts. 8. (intr) to flow; surge: relief flooded through him. 9. (Automotive Engineering) to supply an excessive quantity of petrol to (a carburettor or petrol engine) or (of a carburettor, etc) to be supplied with such an excess10. (Physical Geography) (intr) to rise to a flood; overflow11. (Pathology) (intr) a. to bleed profusely from the uterus, as following childbirthb. to have an abnormally heavy flow of blood during a menstrual period[Old English flōd; related to Old Norse flōth, Gothic flōdus, Old High German fluot flood, Greek plōtos navigable; see flow, float] ˈfloodable adj ˈflooder n ˈfloodless adj

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(flʌd) n (Bible) the Flood Old Testament the flood extending over all the earth from which Noah and his family and livestock were saved in the ark. (Genesis 7–8); the Deluge

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(flʌd) n (Biography) Henry. 1732–91, Anglo-Irish politician: leader of the parliamentary opposition to English rule

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n. 1. a great flowing or overflowing of water, esp. over land not usu. submerged. 2. any great outpouring or stream: a flood of tears. 3. 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. the rise or flowing in of the tide (opposed to ebb). 5. a floodlight. 6. Archaic. a large body of water. v.t. 7. to cover with a flood; fill to overflowing. 8. to cover or fill as if with a flood: roads flooded with cars. 9. to overwhelm with an abundance of something: to be flooded with mail. 10. to supply too much fuel to (the carburetor), so that the engine fails to start. 11. to floodlight. v.i. 12. to flow or pour in or as if in a flood. 13. to rise in a flood; overflow. 14. to become flooded. [before 900; Middle English flod (n.), Old English flōd; c. Old Frisian, Old Saxon flōd, Old High German fluot] flood′a•ble, adj. flood′er, n.

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a large body of water; a great flow or stream of any fluid; any great overwhelming quantity.Examples: flood of banknotes; of eloquence, 1599; of fire, 1711; of joy, 1719; of laughter, 1611; of lava; of golden light, 1680; of mutiny, 1710; of silver, 1894; of tears, 1589; of unbelief and carelessness, 1833; of visitors, 1607; of water; of fiery words, 1877.

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Past participle: flooded
Gerund: flooding

Imperative
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Present
I flood
you flood
he/she/it floods
we flood
you flood
they flood

Preterite
I flooded
you flooded
he/she/it flooded
we flooded
you flooded
they flooded

Present Continuous
I am flooding
you are flooding
he/she/it is flooding
we are flooding
you are flooding
they are flooding

Present Perfect
I have flooded
you have flooded
he/she/it has flooded
we have flooded
you have flooded
they have flooded

Past Continuous
I was flooding
you were flooding
he/she/it was flooding
we were flooding
you were flooding
they were flooding

Past Perfect
I had flooded
you had flooded
he/she/it had flooded
we had flooded
you had flooded
they had flooded

Future
I will flood
you will flood
he/she/it will flood
we will flood
you will flood
they will flood

Future Perfect
I will have flooded
you will have flooded
he/she/it will have flooded
we will have flooded
you will have flooded
they will have flooded

Future Continuous
I will be flooding
you will be flooding
he/she/it will be flooding
we will be flooding
you will be flooding
they will be flooding

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been flooding
you have been flooding
he/she/it has been flooding
we have been flooding
you have been flooding
they have been flooding

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been flooding
you will have been flooding
he/she/it will have been flooding
we will have been flooding
you will have been flooding
they will have been flooding

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been flooding
you had been flooding
he/she/it had been flooding
we had been flooding
you had been flooding
they had been flooding

Conditional
I would flood
you would flood
he/she/it would flood
we would flood
you would flood
they would flood

Past Conditional
I would have flooded
you would have flooded
he/she/it would have flooded
we would have flooded
you would have flooded
they would have flooded

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A lamp that gives a broad spread of light but is not focusable.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	flood - the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"inundation, alluvion, delugegeological phenomenon - a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earthdebacle - flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summerflash flood, flashflood - a sudden local flood of great volume and short durationNoachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, Noah's flood, the Flood - (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings
	2.	flood - an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"deluge, inundation, torrentgood deal, great deal, hatful, lot, muckle, passel, peck, mickle, mint, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad, stack, raft, mountain, pile, plenty, mass, batch, heap, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
	3.	flood - light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photographyflood lamp, floodlight, photofloodlight source, light - any device serving as a source of illumination; "he stopped the car and turned off the lights"photographic equipment - equipment used by a photographer
	4.	flood - a large flow overflow, outpouringflow, stream - the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progressioneffusion - flow under pressure
	5.	flood - the act of flooding; filling to overflowingflowagefilling - the act of filling something
	6.	flood - 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" -Shakespearerising tide, flood tidetide - the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
Verb	1.	flood - fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"deluge, inundate, swampfill, fill up, make full - make full, also in a metaphorical sense; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride"flood in - arrive in great numbers
	2.	flood - cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"flow - cover or swamp with waterinundate, deluge, submerge - fill or cover completely, usually with waterspread over, cover - form a cover over; "The grass covered the grave"drench, swamp - drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; "The tsunami swamped every boat in the harbor"flood out, overwhelm, deluge - charge someone with too many tasks
	3.	flood - supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"oversupply, glutfurnish, provide, supply, render - give something useful or necessary to; "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
	4.	flood - become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"fill, fill up - become full; "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly"

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noun1. deluge, downpour, flash flood, inundation, tide, overflow, torrent, spate, freshet This is the sort of flood dreaded by cavers.2. torrent, flow, rush, stream, tide, abundance, multitude, glut, outpouring, profusion The administration is trying to stem the flood of refugees.3. series, stream, avalanche, barrage, spate, torrent He received a flood of complaints.4. outpouring, rush, stream, surge, torrent She broke into a flood of tears.verb1. immerse, swamp, submerge, inundate, deluge, drown, cover with water The river flooded its banks2. pour over, swamp, run over, overflow, inundate, brim over Many streams have flooded their banks.3. engulf, flow into, rush into, sweep into, overwhelm, surge into, swarm into, pour into, gush into Large numbers of immigrants flooded the area.4. saturate, fill, choke, swamp, glut, oversupply, overfill a policy aimed at flooding Europe with exports5. stream, flow, rush, pour, surge Enquiries flooded in from all over the world.Related words
adjective fluvial, diluvial
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noun1. An abundant, usually overwhelming flow or fall, as of a river or rain:alluvion, cataclysm, cataract, deluge, downpour, freshet, inundation, Niagara, overflow, torrent.Chiefly British: spate.2. Something suggestive of running water:current, drift, flow, flux, rush, spate, stream, surge, tide.verb1. To flow over completely:deluge, drown, engulf, flush, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, submerge, whelm.2. To affect as if by an outpouring of water:deluge, inundate, overwhelm, swamp, whelm.3. To come or go in large numbers:pour, swarm, throng, troop.

Translations

洪水淹没大量水灾

flood

(flad) noun1. a great overflow of water. If it continues to rain like this, we shall have floods. 水灾，洪水 2. any great quantity. a flood of fan mail.大量 verb to (cause something to) overflow with water. She left the water running and flooded the kitchen.淹没ˈfloodlight noun a kind of very strong light often used to light up the outside of buildings etc. There were floodlights in the sports stadium.泛光灯 verb – past tense, past participle ˈfloodlit (-lit) – to light with floodlights. 用泛光灯照明ˈfloodlighting noun泛光照明ˈfloodlit adjective用泛光照明的ˌflood-ˈtide noun the rising tide. 涨潮

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in the Bible: see DelugeDeluge
, in the Bible, the overwhelming flood that covered the earth and destroyed every living thing except the family of Noah and the creatures in his ark. Archaeology has yielded little trace of the biblical flood, but some oceanographers and geophysicists have speculated
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inundation of land by the rise and overflow of a body of water. Floods occur most commonly when water from heavy rainfall, from melting ice and snow, or from a combination of these exceeds the carrying capacity of the river system, lake, or the like into which it runs. Usually the combined flow of several water-swollen tributaries causes flooding along a river bank or shoreline. Accounts of floods that destroyed nearly all life are found in the mythology of many peoples (see DelugeDeluge
, in the Bible, the overwhelming flood that covered the earth and destroyed every living thing except the family of Noah and the creatures in his ark. Archaeology has yielded little trace of the biblical flood, but some oceanographers and geophysicists have speculated
..... Click the link for more information. ). Not all floods are destructive, however. The annual floodwaters of the Nile and some other larger rivers historically deposited fertile soil along the surrounding floodplainfloodplain,
level land along the course of a river formed by the deposition of sediment during periodic floods. Floodplains contain such features as levees, backswamps, delta plains, and oxbow lakes.
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Flood Characteristics and Control

The rise and fall of the water level in a river is called the flood wave. Its highest point, or crest, travels progressively downstream. In the upstream portions of a river the flood crest passes quickly. Further downstream the greater volume of water causes slower passage of the flood crest, resulting in floods of longer duration. In many regions, annual floods follow the thaws and rains of spring; flooding also may occur because of thawing ice jamming narrower and shallower parts of a river. In the Arctic regions, especially in the basins of northward flowing rivers, the floods are caused by the thawing of the southern portion of the basin before the ice blocking the lower course of the river melts. Less predictable are floods resulting from ocean waves, called storm surges, pushed onshore by an advancing hurricane, and from sudden torrential flows, called flash floods, following a brief, intense rainstorm or the bursting of a natural or constructed dam or levee. In addition to the duration and quantity of rainfall, the nature of the soil (permeability; state of saturation) of an area affects the frequency of floods.

Generally, flood control measures along a river are attempted at both its headwaters and its low-lying floodplains. Runoff can be detained in the headwaters by planting ground cover on the slopes, building terraces to increase soil infiltration and prevent soil erosion, and building small check dams or retaining ponds to reduce the flow of water. Flood control on the lower floodplains involves building levees to contain the flow and straightening or dredging the channel to improve flow characteristics. Concern over the affects of channelization on rivers in floodplains has led to the development of flood-control approaches that attempt to combine the way floodplains naturally handle floodwaters with traditional methods that restrict those waters greater spread. Such an approach might involve increasing the distance of levees from a river's channel along with the creation of wetlands to absorb floodwaters. Among the chief flood-control projects in the United States are the flood control works along the Mississippi River, the installations of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Glen Canyon and Hoover dams on the Colorado River, and the systems of dams in the Columbia River basin (including Grand Coulee Dam) and in the Missouri River basin.

Notable Floods

A flood of the Tiber was recorded in 413 B.C. Records of floods on the Danube date from A.D. 1000. In China some of the world's most disastrous floods have been caused by the unstable Huang He (Yellow River). The river, which flows at or above the level of the bordering land, is contained in part by levees; however, because its channel has gradually become filled with deposited sediment, any appreciable increase in its volume causes the river to overflow and flood the surrounding area. The Netherlands, dependent on its dikes for protection from inundation, has suffered many disastrous floods from the sea and the Rhine and Meuse rivers. In 1970, 1985, and 1991, hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh were killed when the combination of high tidestide,
alternate and regular rise and fall of sea level in oceans and other large bodies of water. These changes are caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and, to a lesser extent, of the sun on the earth.
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tropical cyclone in which winds attain speeds greater than 74 mi (119 km) per hr. Wind speeds gust over 200 mi (320 km) per hr in some hurricanes. The term is often restricted to those storms occurring over the N Atlantic Ocean; the identical phenomenon occurring over
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[from triangular shape of the Nile delta, like the Greek letter delta], a deposit of clay, silt, and sand formed at the mouth of a river where the stream loses velocity and drops part of its sediment load.
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In the United States the Johnstown, Pa., flood of 1889, in which thousands of lives were lost, was caused by the breaking of an earth dam above the city. Even greater loss of life occurred (1900) in Galveston, Tex., when tide and storm surges engulfed the city after a hurricane. The hurricanes of 1938 on the New England and Long Island coasts and Hurricane Donna in 1960 along the Atlantic coast from Florida to the Long Island Sound were also followed by storm surges. In June, 1972, extremely heavy rainfall associated with a tropical storm inundated the basins of the Chemung and Susquehanna rivers of New York and Pennsylvania, causing severely damaging floods in Corning and Elmira, N.Y., and Wilkes-Barre and Harrisburg, Pa. In July, 1979, Hurricane Claudette deposited a U.S. record of 43 in. (109 cm) of rain in Alvin, Tex., in 24 hours. Hurricane Katrina in Aug., 2005, led to extensive and devastating storm-surge flooding along the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts, and the failure of several levees in the New Orleans area resulted in hundreds of deaths. The worst floods in the United States from river overflow were in 1913 on the Miami River (a tributary of the Ohio), in 1927, 1937, 1973, and 2011 on the Mississippi River and some of its tributaries, in 1935–36 on several New England rivers, and in 1993 on the Missouri, Mississippi, and some of their tributaries.

Bibliography

See P. Briggs, Rampage (1973); C. Clark, Flood (1982).

Flood

the inundation of an area by water as a result of a rise in the water level of a river, lake, or sea owing to various factors.

A river may flood because of a sharp increase in the amount of water as a result of the melting of snow and glaciers in its basin or as a result of heavy precipitation. Many floods are caused by a rise in the water level when the river channel is jammed with ice owing to an ice drift (ice jam) or when the channel beneath an immobile sheet of ice is blocked by ice that accumulates under the sheet, forming a barrier.

Floods are often caused by winds that drive water inland from the sea, raising the level of a river by backing up the water at the mouth. This type of flood has occurred in Leningrad (1824 and 1924) and the Netherlands (1952). Along seashores and on islands floods may result from the inundation of the coastal zone by a wave formed during earthquakes or volcanic eruptions in the ocean (tsunamis). Floods of this type occur frequently on the shores of Japan and other Pacific islands. Breaks in dams or protective dikes may cause floods.

Floods occur on many rivers in Western Europe, including the Danube, the Seine, the Rhone, and the Po; on the Yangtze and Huang Ho in China; and on the Mississippi and Ohio in the USA. In the USSR there have been heavy floods on the Dnieper (1931) and the Volga (1908 and 1926). The most effective method of combating floods is the construction of reservoirs to regulate the flow of rivers.

What does it mean when you dream about a flood?

Because water is a universal symbol for the unconscious, a flood dream can indicate being overwhelmed by unconscious material, such as repressed emotions. It can also represent a feeling of being overwhelmed by circumstances in one’s life. Floods are related to initiation, in the sense that they can symbolize the destruction or washing away of the old in preparation for something new. Finally, a flood, as the bursting forth of fluids, can be a sexual symbol.

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[fləd] (electronics) To direct a large-area flow of electrons toward a storage assembly in a charge storage tube. (engineering) To cover or fill with fluid. (hydrology) The condition that occurs when water overflows the natural or artificial confines of a stream or other body of water, or accumulates by drainage over low-lying areas. (mechanical engineering) To supply an excess of fuel to a carburetor so that the level rises above the nozzle. (oceanography) The highest point of a tide.

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for his evilness, man perishes by inundation. [O.T.: Genesis 6: 5–8; 7:4]See: Punishment

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1. a. the inundation of land that is normally dry through the overflowing of a body of water, esp a river b. the state of a river that is at an abnormally high level (esp in the phrase in flood) 2. a. the rising of the tide from low to high water b. (as modifier): the flood tide 3. Theatre short for floodlight (sense 1)

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¹ Henry. 1732--91, Anglo-Irish politician: leader of the parliamentary opposition to English rule

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² Old Testament the. the flood extending over all the earth from which Noah and his family and livestock were saved in the ark. (Genesis 7--8); the Deluge

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(dreams)Heavy rain and the melting of snow usually cause floods. Water in any form, including rain and snow, symbolizes emotions. Dreaming about being in a flood is an indication that the dreamer is currently experiencing powerful emotions that may be overwhelming. The flood in your dream could represent a very powerful, or even violent, emotionally cleansing experience. But don’t worry, just like in an actual flood, waters recede and so do emotions. Water at times represents the flow of life and this dream may point to your feelings of being overwhelmed by it. Depending on the content of the dream and your emotional experience in it, the flood could also represent sexuality and be a sexual dream symbol.

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Notable Floods

Bibliography

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noun deluge

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noun torrent

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noun series

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noun outpouring

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verb immerse

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verb pour over

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verb engulf

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verb saturate

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verb stream

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noun an abundant, usually overwhelming flow or fall, as of a river or rain

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noun something suggestive of running water

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verb to flow over completely

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verb to affect as if by an outpouring of water

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verb to come or go in large numbers

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