ALL meanings of flood
flood
F f - noun flood a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged. 1
- noun flood any great outpouring or stream: a flood of tears. 1
- noun flood the Flood, the universal deluge recorded as having occurred in the days of Noah. Gen. 7. 1
- noun flood the rise or flowing in of the tide (opposed to ebb). 1
- noun flood a floodlight. 1
- noun flood Archaic. a large body of water. 1
- verb with object flood to overflow in or cover with a flood; fill to overflowing: Don't flood the bathtub. 1
- verb with object flood to cover or fill, as if with a flood: The road was flooded with cars. 1
- verb with object flood to overwhelm with an abundance of something: to be flooded with mail. 1
- verb with object flood Automotive. to supply too much fuel to (the carburetor), so that the engine fails to start. 1
- verb with object flood to floodlight. 1
- verb without object flood to flow or pour in or as if in a flood. 1
- verb without object flood to rise in a flood; overflow. 1
- verb without object flood Pathology. to suffer uterine hemorrhage, especially in connection with childbirth. to have an excessive menstrual flow. 1
- noun flood water 1
- intransitive verb flood water, river 1
- intransitive verb flood city, house 1
- noun flood sth in large quantity 1
- noun flood Biblical disaster 1
- transitive verb flood overwhelm 1
- noun flood An overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land. 1
- noun Definition of flood in Technology (chat) 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. 1
- noun flood A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water. 0
- noun flood (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with. 0
- noun flood The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb. 0
- noun flood Menstrual discharge; menses. 0
- verb flood To overflow. 0
- verb flood To cover or partly fill as if by a flood. 0
- verb flood (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot easily be dealt with. 0
- verb flood (Internet, computing) To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation. 0
- variable noun flood If there is a flood, a large amount of water covers an area which is usually dry, for example when a river flows over its banks or a pipe bursts. 0
- verb flood If something such as a river or a burst pipe floods an area that is usually dry or if the area floods, it becomes covered with water. 0
- verb flood If a river floods, it overflows, especially after very heavy rain. 0
- countable noun flood If you say that a flood of people or things arrive somewhere, you are emphasizing that a very large number of them arrive there. 0
- verb flood If you say that people or things flood into a place, you are emphasizing that they arrive there in large numbers. 0
- verb flood If you flood a place with a particular type of thing, or if a particular type of thing floods a place, the place becomes full of so many of them that it cannot hold or deal with any more. 0
- verb flood If an emotion, feeling, or thought floods you, you suddenly feel it very intensely. If feelings or memories flood back, you suddenly remember them very clearly. 0
- verb flood If light floods a place or floods into it, it suddenly fills it. 0
- noun flood the inundation of land that is normally dry through the overflowing of a body of water, esp a river 0
- noun flood the state of a river that is at an abnormally high level (esp in the phrase in flood) 0
- noun flood a great outpouring or flow 0
- noun flood the rising of the tide from low to high water 0
- noun flood (as modifier) 0
- noun flood a large body of water, as the sea or a river 0
- verb flood (of water) to inundate or submerge (land) or (of land) to be inundated or submerged 0
- verb flood to fill or be filled to overflowing, as with a flood 0
- verb flood to flow; surge 0
- verb flood to supply an excessive quantity of petrol to (a carburettor or petrol engine) or (of a carburettor, etc) to be supplied with such an excess 0
- verb flood to rise to a flood; overflow 0
- verb flood to bleed profusely from the uterus, as following childbirth 0