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Definition: Flood |
FloodNoun1. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. 2. An overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse". 3. Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography. 4. A large flow. 5. The act of flooding; filling to overflowing. 6. The inward flow of the tide; "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare. Verb1. Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind". 2. Cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes". 3. Fill beyond capacity; "The water flooded the fields". 4. Supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient". 5. Become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "flood" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Computing | 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. Source: Jargon File. |
Bible | 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. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Biology & Biotechnology | Any flow of a stream or river that overtops the banks of the channel and spreads across the flood plain. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The actual rising of the water from low water to the next high water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Overflowing by water of the normal confines of a stream or other body of water, or accumulation of water by drainage over areas which are not normally submerged. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | A lake, stream, or other body of water that flows over its natural confining boundaries. During a flood, water flows out over land not normally covered with water. (references) |
Hydrologic | The inundation of a normally dry area caused by high flow, or overflow of water in an established watercourse, such as a river, stream, or drainage ditch ; or ponding of water at or near the point where the rain fell. This is a duration type event with a slower onset than flash flooding, normally greater than 6 hours. (references) |
| An overflow of water onto lands that are used or usable by man and not normally covered by water. Floods have two essential characteristics: The inundation of land is temporary; and the land is adjacent to and inundated by overflow from a river, stream, lake, or ocean. (references) | |
Literature | Flood The almost universal tradition of the East respecting this catastrophe is that the waters were boiling hot. (See the Talmud, the Targums, the Koran, etc.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Public Administration | Inundation of areas which normally are not under water. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The state of a stream or lake when the stage or discharge clearly exceeds the average value. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The overflowing by water of the confines of a stream or other body of water over areas which are not normally submerged. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A significant rise of the water level in a stream or lake. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Slang | Verb. Source: Probably from the English "flood," recognized as meaning to fill or overcome with something, usually water. Definition: To fill a chat room screen with meaningless or random messages, making it difficult for other users to participate in discussion. The term "flooding" can be used pretty much interchangeably with the term "flaming.". Context: Normally used to intentionally disrupt the flow of a chat room by someone who wants to just generally mess with people and make them mad. Social Source: Internet chat room users. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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For the record producer see Mark Ellis A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages, compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water," the word is applied to the inflow of the tide, as opposed to the outflow or "ebb."
(Full-sized image)''In many arid regions of the world the soil has very poor water retention characteristics, or the amount of rainfall exceeds the ground's ability to absorb water. When a rainfall does occur, it can sometimes result in a sudden flood of water filling dry streambeds known as a "flash flood."
Many rivers that flow over relatively flat land border on broad flood plains. When heavy rainfall or melting snow causes the river's depth to increase and the river to overflow its banks, a vast expanse of shallow water can rapidly cover the adjacent flood plain. Flooding deposits silt on the flood plain, improving the fertility, which has throughout history attracted agriculture and other human development. In order to preserve these farms and cities, some rivers prone to flooding have had extensive and elaborate systems of dikess constructed along their shores and surrounding nearby cities. Unfortunately, by restraining flood waters, these dikes can result in much greater flooding upstream and in locations where they break. The control of annual flooding, by dikes and by dams, also prevents the deposition of silt on the rich farmlands and can result in their eventual depletion. The annual cycle of flood and farming was of great significance to many early farming cultures, most famously to the ancient Egyptians of the Nile river and to the Mesopotamians of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Main Causes
Monsoon rainfalls can cause disastrous flooding in some equatorial countries, such as Bangladesh, due to their extended periods of rainfall.
Hurricanes have a number of different features which case flooding, and together they can be devistating. One is from the leading edge of the hurricane when it hits land causing waves of up to 8 metres high. Another is from large amounts of precipitation associated with hurricanes. The eye of hurricanes have extremely low pressure, so sea level may rise a few metres in the eye of the storm. This type of coastal flooding occurs regularly in Bangladesh.
Under some freakish events associated with heat waves, flash floods from quickly melting mountain snow has caused loss of property and life.
Flood defenses, planning and management
In western countries river flooding rarely does considerable damage, as rivers at risk of flooding are carefully managed. Defenses, such as levees, reservoirs and wiers prevent rivers from bursting their banks. In countries such as England and Holland which have high population densities there is pressure from developers to allow building on flood plains, and planning laws are used to make sure that flood plains are left usused, so flood water can do little damage. London, England is protected from the flooding of the River Thames by a huge mechanical barrier, called the Thames Barrier, which is raised when the water level reaches a certain point. Venice, Italy is also protected from flooding by a similar arrangement.
Coastal flooding has been successfully tackled in Europe with coastal defenses, such as sea walls and beach nourishment.
Bangladesh has not experienced catastrophic coastal flooding since 1995 when 8 metre coastal banks, but the country relies heavily on foreign support and technology to combat flooding. The United States have donated hurricane shelters to the country, and India provides the Bangladesh government with weather forcasting to give the country time to plan their response to hurricanes.
Great floods and global flood myths
In geological or prehistoric times, several great floods are known or suspected to have occurred with varying amounts of supporting evidence. These include:
Ancient mythology makes several references to a great flood, of which the most well known is probably the Noachian deluge of Genesis. Another very similar version is given in the Babylonian account of the Epic of Gilgamesh, which apparently derives from a similar Sumerian account. The Sumerians also referred to a great flood in other texts, such as the Sumerian king list, and another remarkably similar to the Biblical version, suggesting that the Genesis account has drawn influence from the older Sumerian depiction.
- The flooding of the Mediterranean Sea about 5 million years ago. It had previously become a desert after continental movement had closed the Strait of Gibraltar (variously placed at 8 million or 5.5 million years ago).
- The flooding of the Black Sea, caused by rising level of the Mediterranean as the Ice Age ended (circa 5600 BC)
- As the Ice Age ended in North America, there was a great flood caused by the breaking of the ice dams holding Lake Agassiz.
A large percentage of the world's cultures have stories of a "great flood". The strong likelihood is: a global climatic change in recent geological time brought about some large deluge. Another theory, although not strongly supported, suggests some of the major floods may have been caused by platology, the drifting apart of continents. Evidence is mounting from ice-cores in Greenland that the switch from a glacial to an inter-glacial period can occur over just a few months, rather than over the centuries earlier research suggested.
See also: Drought, Hydrography, Trasvasement, Meteorology
External link
- Catastrophic flood database
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flood."
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Flood is an album released in 1990 by They Might Be Giants, their third studio album and their first with a major label, Elektra Records. It contains two of their most memorable songs, Istanbul (Not Constantinople) and Particle Man, both of which were made into animated music videos on the children's television show Tiny Toon Adventures, exposing the band to a much younger audience. All of the songs except for Istanbul... were written by John Flansburgh & John Linnell. Istanbul... was written by J. Kennedy & N. Simon.Track list:
- Theme From Flood
- Birdhouse In Your Soul (vorbis sample 141K)
- Lucky Ball And Chain
- Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
- Dead
- Your Racist Friend
- Particle Man (vorbis sample 105K)
- Twisting
- We Want A Rock
- Someone Keeps Moving My Chair
- Hearing Aid
- Minimum Wage (vorbis sample 103K)
- Letterbox
- Whistling In The Dark
- Hot Cha
- Women And Men
- Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love
- They Might Be Giants
- Road Movie To Berlin
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flood (album)."
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Mark Ellis a.k.a Flood is a record producer for bands including U2, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, The Jesus & Mary Chain, and P.J. Harvey.
External links
- http://www.sibcorp.com/writehitsongs/flood1.html
- http://www.artistdirect.com/music/artist/bio/0,,431181,00.html?artist=Flood
- http://www.depechemodeitalia.com/profili1.htm (Italian)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mark Ellis."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| FLWIS | English | Flood Warnings Issued | Public Administration, Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: FloodSynonyms: alluvion (n), flood lamp (n), floodlight (n), inundation (n), outpouring (n), overflow (n), photoflood (n), torrent (n), deluge (v), glut (v), inundate (v), oversupply (v), swamp (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: high-water (public administration, geography). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host;crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness. |
Greatness | Great quan quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap; (assemblage); stock; (store); peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance; (sufficiency). |
Prosperity | Luck; good luck, run of luck; sunshine; fair weather, fair wind; palmy days, bright days, halcyon days; piping times, tide, flood, high tide. |
Redundancy | Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize. |
River | Body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre; fresh, freshet; indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation. |
Sequence | Noun: progress, progression, progressiveness; advancing; Verb: advance, advancement; ongoing; flood, tide, headway; march; rise; improvement. |
Sufficiency | Outpouring; flood;outpouring; flood; (great quantity); tide; (river); repletion; (redundancy); satiety. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They've survived flood, famine and plague (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco) Oh, and if I remember correctly, you came back for us in the forest after the flood waters receded with the Brazilian National Guard who promptly deported us for not having made the right bribes (Veritas: The Quest; writing credit: Brad Falchuk) The tunnel might flood and we can all swim there (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) Time to flood the fault (A View to a Kill; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) The resulting flood of illogic would be most entertaining (Star Trek; writing credit: Walter Black; William Hamilton) | |
Lyrics | My world is a flood (Flood; performing artist: Jars Of Clay) Of the coming of the flood (Miracle; performing artist: Jon Bon Jovi) In a flood of tears (Edge of Seventeen; performing artist: Stevie Nicks) After the flood, all the colors came out (Beautiful Day; performing artist: U2) | |
Clever | Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work (references; author: unknown) No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Johnstown Flood (2003) Iron Flood (1967) The Flood (1963) Flood Tide (1958) The Johnstown Flood (1946) | |
Song Titles | Flood (performing artist: Jars Of Clay) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Disaster Aid. Local citizens receive Typhoid vacinations from Dr. M.L. Fuller, Director, Laredo/Webb County Health Unit and other employees in a mass immunization program following the Rio Grande flood of 1954. Credit: CDC. |  | CDC spray equipment leaving the warehouse at a field office in Laredo, TX, for work in a flood area. Credit: CDC. |
 | Flooding along the Mississippi River Refugees from the flood maintain their livestock on the top of a levee. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Determining sea level - just kidding! Rodman at bench mark covered by floodwaters Mississippi River flood of 1935. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Submerged aquatic vegetation along the lower Atchafalaya. Whole trees frequently wash down the river at flood stage. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The tide gate at the mouth of Army Creek on the Delaware side of the river. The tide gate drains flood and rain water out of the creek to prevent flooding. The five circular mechanisms on the gate open and close to control water flow. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A close-up view of the tide gate from the Delaware River side shows the flat valves near low tide. The water is flowing out of Army Creek, the tide gates are open and debris that plugs the openings can be clearly seen. The restoration work will target modification of the flood gates to allow better passage for anadromous species. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. Flood gate for rice trunk. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Flood water spills from Obion River in Central Tennessee. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | A planter is almost buried by deep flood water. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
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| "Flood in Kecskemet, 2003" by Anna Takacs Commentary: "Flood in Kecskemet, 2003." | "Flood" by Balazs Raskai Commentary: "Flood on river Danube. 2002 summer. Hungary." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
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 | Swish; swirl; flush; cleanse; douche; drench; eject; expel; flood; hose; inundate; rinse; swab; wash. | | Barrage; deluge; flood; inundation; landslide; landslip; snowslide; torrent; building; intensify. |
| Swish; swirl; flush; cleanse; douche; drench; eject; expel; flood; hose; inundate; rinse; swab; wash. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
John Dryden | Theirs was the giant race, before the flood. |
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Lays of Mystery Imagination and Humour | Carroll, Lewis | All birds of evil omen there Flood with rich Notes the tainted air, The witless wanderer to snare |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The fury of the flood was imprinted upon that misshapen obstruction |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He felt some dark presence moving irresistibly upon him from the darkness, a presence subtle and murmurous as a flood filling him wholly with itself |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The edges of the flood were lined with yellow foam |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | Fear! The crack that might flood your brain with light |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If so, runoff from rain or flood water may be draining directly into your well causing contamination. (references) | |
Business | In 1997, Poland received World Bank funding for a major flood protection project. (references) | |
In recent years, the UK has witnessed a flood of new investment as operators build networks based on the most advanced technologies. (references) | ||
The inkjet market saw the complete disappearance of monochrome printers, entry of a new brand (Apollo), a fiercely competitive scenario, unprecedented aggression from almost all vendors, and a virtual flood of new models. (references) | ||
Children | Korea | A nutrition survey carried out by UNICEF and the WFP in the aftermath of flood disasters found that 16 percent of children under 7 years of age suffered from acute malnutrition and that 62 percent suffered from stunted growth. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Australia | Flood reported improper handling of a child abuse complaint at Woomera as well. (references) |
Australia | After visiting all six centers and interviewing dozens of persons, Flood concluded that the Woomera Detention Center had infrastructure and management shortcomings, and the Government had exerted inadequate oversight of the security firm hired to manage the facility. (references) | |
Economic History | Gambia, The | Terrain: Flood plain of the Gambia River flanked by low hills. (references) |
Republic of Congo | Terrain: Coastal plains, fertile valleys, central plateau, forested flood plains. (references) | |
Ecuador | Several large-scale, highly-subsidized flood control and irrigation schemes are run by regional bodies. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | For example, on August 6, police fired on demonstrators surrounding the Aurai police station in Muzaffarpur to protest police brutality against flood victims in Bihar; the shooting killed six persons and injured scores of others. (references) |
Indigenous People | Namibia | The Government plans to build a hydroelectric dam on the Kunene River that would flood ancestral graves and grazing areas of the semi-nomadic Himba people; the project was highly controversial. (references) |
Political Economy | Korea | The U.N.'s World Food Program provides assistance to children and mothers, the elderly, and persons employed in flood damage recovery efforts. (references) |
Travel | Nigeria | Roads flood in torrential rainstorms. (references) |
Worker Rights | China | However, in May 39 prisoner-miners were killed in a coal mine flood in Sichuan Province in May. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. There is a land of pure delight, Beyond the Jordan's flood, Where saints, apparelled all in white, Fling back the critic's mud. And as he legs it through the skies, His pelt a sable hue, He sorrows sore to recognize The missiles that he threw. Orrin Goof |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Work was suspended on a number of flood control and reclamation projects and on the development of our national forests and parks. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In the part that sound water resource projects play in providing irrigation, power, and flood control. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We must enforce our trade laws when imports unlawfully flood our nation. |
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| "Flood" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.70% of the time. "Flood" is used about 1,318 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 78.7% | 1,037 | 7,167 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 11.3% | 149 | 25,810 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.46% | 72 | 39,377 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.55% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,318 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "flood" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Flood | Last name | 6,000 | 1,997 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "flood". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Shibboleth | N/A | Biblical | Stream or flood |
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Expressions using "flood": a flood of tears ♦ a flood of visitors ♦ catastrophic flood ♦ causing a flood ♦ confined flood ♦ disastrous flood ♦ exceptional flood ♦ extraordinary flood ♦ extreme flood ♦ flash flood ♦ Flood anchor ♦ flood and field ♦ flood around ♦ flood bank ♦ flood bed ♦ flood control ♦ flood control levee ♦ flood control reservoir ♦ flood crest ♦ flood debris accumulation ♦ flood detention basin ♦ flood disaster ♦ flood embankment ♦ Flood fence ♦ flood forecasting ♦ Flood gate ♦ flood in ♦ flood lamp ♦ flood levee ♦ flood lighting ♦ Flood mark ♦ flood of tears ♦ flood out ♦ flood peak ♦ flood plain ♦ flood retention basin ♦ flood summit ♦ flood surcharge ♦ flood the market with ♦ flood tide ♦ flood victim ♦ glacier flood ♦ historical flood ♦ ice flood ♦ in flood ♦ jökulhaup,glacier outburst flood ♦ maximum computed flood ♦ maximum intensity of flood ♦ momentary flood peak ♦ open the flood gates ♦ peak flood ♦ protracted flood ♦ rearward flood bank ♦ sand flood ♦ snow flood ♦ spring flood ♦ the flood ♦ Tribal Flood Network. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "flood": flood-affected, flood-banks, flood-basin, flood-control, flood-damaged, flood-devastated, flood-drains, flood-gates, flood-hit, flood-land, flood-lands, flood-level, flood-light, flood-like, flood-lit, flood-mitigation, flood-murmur, flood-plain, flood-prevention, flood-prone, flood-protection, flood-retarding, flood-stories, flood-tide, flood-tides, flood-time, flood-wall, flood-water, flood-waters. | |
Ending with "flood": anti-flood, flash-flood, in-flood, jet-flood, ping-flood, post-flood, pre-flood, river-flood. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
flood | 1,359 | noah flood | 37 |
flood insurance | 598 | fema flood map zone | 37 |
flood map | 184 | fema flood | 35 |
flood zone | 167 | flood map plane | 34 |
sonic flood | 142 | flood virginia west | 33 |
flood staci | 131 | florida flood | 32 |
fema flood map | 111 | flash flood | 31 |
flood plain | 110 | flood lyrics sonic | 31 |
flood picture | 106 | 100 flood map plain year | 30 |
flood insurance rate map | 94 | the great flood | 30 |
flood map zone | 93 | curt flood | 29 |
flood damage | 93 | flood company | 29 |
johnstown flood | 91 | flood halo | 28 |
national flood insurance program | 87 | control county flood harris | 28 |
flood light | 72 | flood zone insurance | 28 |
flood plain map | 65 | control county district flood harris | 28 |
teen flood | 62 | flood protection | 28 |
national flood insurance | 58 | flood photo | 26 |
fema flood zone | 46 | flood certification | 25 |
flood control | 43 | noahs flood | 23 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "flood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | oorstroom. (various references) | |
Albanian | vërshim (flux, freshet, inrush, onrush, outflow, spate), rrëke (Beck, bourn, Bourne, burn, deluge, flow, gush, rain, runlet, runnel, stream, torrent), përmbytje (antediluvian, cataclysm, deluge, flooding, flowing, inundation, overflow, spate, submergence, swelling), përmbyt (deluge, drown, inundate, overflow, submerge, submerse, swamp, waterlog), mbytet në ujë, mbyt me, mbush plot e përplot, derdhet (Debouch, flow, flow in to, flow into, meet, overflow, pour, rain, regorge, rill, run out, run over, sluice, spill, stream). (various references) | |
Arabic | فيضان (alluvion, deluge, flow, flux, high, high tide, overflow, rise, rising, spate, stream), فيض (abundance, affluence, emanation, flooding, flow, overflow, plenty, spate, superfluity), فاض (deluge, flow, flow over, inundate, overfill, overflow, run over, spill over, stream), مد ضد جزر, غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, submerge, suffuse, swamp, wash), عباب (billows, surges, swirl, torrent), طوفان (cataclysm, cataract, deluge, downfall), أشبع (appease, assuage, charge, drench, feed, full, gratify, please, requite, sate, satiate, saturate, slake, soak, steep). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | трупам се (conglomerate, crowd round, flock, mass, mob, throng, troop), наводнявам (deluge, drown, float, flow, inundate, swamp, water), наводнение (alluvion, flooding, flowage, freshet, inundation, overflow), заливам (flash, flush, inundate, lick, overflow, overrun, perfuse, sluice, splash, swamp, whelm), причинявам прииждане, прилив (afflux, flood tide, flow, flux, inflow, inset, onrush, rush, waft), прииждам (flow, flux, rise, swell), порой (brash, debacle, downpour, flash flood, freshet, pour, spate, torrent, volley), потоп (cataclysm, deluge, inundation), имам маточен кръвоизлив, изблик (access, accession, burst, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, exuberance, flare, flash, flush, gale, gust, outbreak, outburst, outcrop, outflow, passion, riot, rush, spasm, spate, spirt, spurt, surge, wave). (various references) | |
Chinese | 洪水 (deluge). (various references) | |
Cornish | lýf. (various references) | |
Czech | zaplavit (glut, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, snow under, submerge, suffuse), záplava (barrage, flash flood, gush, gust, overflow, spate, stream), proud (current, drift, flow, flush, gush, jet, race, river, run, spout, stream, trend), povodeò (spate), příliv (flood tide, high tide). (various references) | |
Danish | flod (high tide, river). (various references) | |
Dutch | zondvloed (deluge), vloed (high tide, torrent, volley), overstroming (flooding, overflow, spill, spillover). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fluso (high tide), flusa, superŝuti (overwhelm), inundo, inundi, diluvo (deluge). (various references) | |
Faeroese | flóð (high tide), vatnflóð (deluge), syndflóð (deluge), ódnarflóð (deluge). (various references) | |
Farsi | غرق کردن (Deluge, Drown), سیل گرفتن , سیل (Deluge, Overflow, Spate, Torrent), طوفان (Cataclysm, Deluge, Gale, Hurricane), طغیان کردن (Arise, Muitiny, Overflow, Rise, Uprise), اشک (Brine, Teardrop), دریا (Channel, Main, Mare, Mere, Sea). (various references) | |
Finnish | vuoksi (because of, for, for sake of, for the sake of, high tide, high water, in behalf of, in consequence of, on account of, owing to, through), tulva (deluge, flow, influx, torrent), nousuvesi (rising tide). (various references) | |
French | inonder (float, flow), inondation (flooding, floods, flow, flux), submerger (flow), marée haute (flood tide), flux (flow, flush, flux), flot (fluid), crue (flooding), combler. (various references) | |
Frisian | floed (high tide). (various references) | |
German | flut (deluge, flood tide, flow, flux, gush, high tide, incoming tide, spate, storm, tidal, torrent, volley), überfluten (inundate, overflow, overrun, to flood, to overflow), hochwasser (high tide, high water, spate), überschwemmung (deluge, flooding, inundation, swamping), überschwemmen (deluge, drown, glut, inundate, overflow, overrun, submerge, swamp, to deluge, to flood, to inundate). (various references) | |
Greek | πλημμύρα (avalanche, inundation, spate), πλημμυρίζω (inundate, overflow, well over). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מבול (deluge, down pour, downfall, inundation, spate, torrent), לשטוף (inundate, rinse, stream, swab, swill, wash, wash away), להשטיף (wash away), להציף (deluge, glut, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, swamp), שטפון (deluge, inuandation, spate), שצף (current, flow, stream, torrent), הצפה (inundation, overflow, surfeit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | árvíz (freshet, inundation, spate). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengampuhkan (imundate), membanjiri (drown, inundate, overrun), membahkan (overflow), cacap (imundate), banjir (afloat, deluge). (various references) | |
Italian | alta marea (high, high tide, high water, tidal), alluvione (alluvion), sommergere (overrun, overwhelm, sink, submerge, swamp), piena (flash flood, high water, swell), inondazione (flooding, inundation, overflow, overflowing), inondare (floods, inundate, overflow, swamp), allagare (inundate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 浸水 (inundation), 殺到 (rush), 洪水. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すいなん (drowning, shipwreck), おおみず, しゅっすい (appearance of ears of grain, freshet, inundation), しんすい (adoration, cooking, fuel and water, inundation, launching, salary), さっとう (rush), でみず (freshet, inundation), こうずい, らんりつ (coming forth in great number, standing in disarray), はんらん (insurrection, mutiny, overflowing, rebellion, revolt, uprising). (various references) | |
Korean | 홍수. (various references) | |
Manx | thooilley (cloudburst, deluge, downfall, downpour, effusion, flow, inundation, onrush, spate, stream, water-spout), skeaylley tooilley er, lhieeney rour (overfill, overstock), baihghey, baih (drown, elide, elision, inundation, saturate, submerge, submersion). (various references) | |
Maya | bul-kabal. (various references) | |
Norwegian | flom, strøm (current, flow, flush, high tide), oversvømmelse (deluge). (various references) | |
Papago | wi'inthag. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inundação (alluvion, deluge, flooding, flow, freshet, inundation, overflow, spate), inundar (bury, deluge, drown, inundate, overflow, overrun, overspread, perfuse, run, shower, submerge, suffuse, swim, waterlog), fluxo (flow, flux, high tide, outflow, stream), enchente (flux, spate), dilúvio (deluge), alagar (deluge, overflow, waterlog). (various references) | |
Romanian | face sã se reverse, fluviu (river, stream, watercourse), fluviu mare, flux (flow, flowing, flux, high water, incoming tide, the rise of the tide, wave), nãpãdi (choke, fill, invade, overgrow, overrun), îneca (choke, deluge, drown, float, flush, inundate, overflow, smother, steep, stifle, suffocate, suffuse, swamp), şuvoi (flush, flux, Gill, gush, gushing, jet, outpour, stack, stream, torrent), bombarda (beset, besiege, blitz, bomb, bombard, cannonade, shell, strafe), copleşi (crush, heap, invade, load, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, pelt, prostrate, shower, smother, stun, whelm), cotropi (invade), diluviu, ieşi din albie, inunda (deluge, drown, float, flow, flush, glut, inundate, overflow, overrun, shower, submerge, swamp), înec (drowning), lac (lacquer, lake, Loch, Lough, mere, pond, varnish), zãpor (flow, thaw, torrent), nãpãdire, ocean (brine, ocean, sea), potop (cataclysm, cataract, cloud, debacle, deluge, destruction, flux, freshet, ravage, sea, stack, stream), potopi (flush, inundate, ravage, submerge), prãpãd (destruction, disaster, fate, havoc), puhoi (infinite, torrent), râu (river, stream, watercourse), revãrsa (effuse, overbrim, overfill, shed, spout), revãrsare (ebullition, flux, freshet, outpour, overflow, overspill), torent (drift, fireworks, fresh, gush, torrent), umple (choke, clog, comprise, contain, cram, crowd, farce, fill, fill up, heap, impregnate, inflate, inform, intersperse, Lade, pack, replenish, stain, stock, stop, store, stuff, suffuse, supply), veni în torente, inundaţie (deluge, freshet, wash). (various references) | |
Russian | наводнение (deluge, inundation, overflow, spate), затоплять наводнение, затоплять (deluge, drown, flush, inundate, overflow, scuttle, submerge, submerse, swamp, waterlog), заливать (overflow, overwhelm, suffuse, swamp, whelm), потоп (cataclysm, deluge), половодье. (various references) | |
Scottish | tuil (a flood, deluge), dìle (heavy rain). ( |
