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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
flood
n 1: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto
normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual
inundations" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge,
alluvion]
2: an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a
torrent of abuse" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge,
torrent]
3: light that is a source of artificial illumination having a
broad beam; used in photography [syn: flood, floodlight,
flood lamp, photoflood]
4: a large flow [syn: flood, overflow, outpouring]
5: the act of flooding; filling to overflowing [syn: 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 [syn:
flood tide, flood, rising tide] [ant: ebbtide]
v 1: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the
basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images
flooded his mind" [syn: 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"
[syn: flood, oversupply, glut]
4: become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during
the heavy rains"
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Flood \Flood\ (fl[u^]d), 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.
[1913 Webster]
A covenant never to destroy
The earth again by flood. --Milton.
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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.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
--Shak.
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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.
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4. Menstrual disharge; menses. --Harvey.
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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.
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3. 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.
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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.
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4. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
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.
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5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
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)
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6. 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.
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Thesaurus Results for flood:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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