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

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

  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.
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              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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

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

  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.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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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