Look up: Flood

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   Flood
   To cover a printed page with ink, varnish, or plastic coating.
   Found on http://www.printusa.com/glos.htm
   
   
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   Flood
   (1) Period when tide level is rising; often taken to mean the flood current which occurs during this period. (2) A flow above the CARRYING CAPACITY of a CHANNEL.
   Found on http://www.csc.noaa.gov/text/glossary.ht
   
   
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   Flood
   Meaning as a surname: Stream/gutter.
   Found on http://www.nameseekers.co.uk/surname.htm
   
   
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   flood
   [n] - an overwhelming number or amount 2. [n] - the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land 3. [n] - the inward flow of the tide 4. [n] - light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam 5. [n] - the act of flooding 6. [n] - a large flow 7. [v] - supply with an excess of 8. [v] - become filled to overflowing 9. [v] - cover with liquid, usually water
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   Flood
   To print a sheet completely with an ink or varnish. Also called painting the sheet.
   Found on http://www.tso.co.uk/solutions/publishin
   
   
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   flood
   1. to drive oil from a reservoir into a well by injecting water under pressure into the reservoir formation. See waterflooding. 2. to drown out a well with water.
   Found on http://www.workover.co.uk/og/f.htm
   
   
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   flood
   (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 ha...
   Found on http://foldoc.org/
   
   
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   Flood
   Flood: See: 1. Flood readiness; 2. Flood supplies kit; 3. Flood warning; 4. Flood aftermath.
   Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.
   
   
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   flood
   excessively large spaces between words that fortuitously coincide in successive lines to form rivers Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • 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. Category: The cosmos • Inundation of areas whi...
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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    Flood
    Flood noun [ Middle English flod a flowing, stream, flood, Anglo-Saxon flōd ; akin to Dutch vloed , Old Saxon flōd , Old High German fluot , German flut , Icelandic flōš , Swedish & Danish flod , Goth. flōdus ; from the root of English flow . √80. See Flow , intran ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/45
    
    
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    Flood
    Flood transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Flooded ; present participle & verbal noun Flooding .] 1. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley. 2. To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irri ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/45
    
    
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    flood
    1. To bleed profusely from the uterus, as after childbirth or in cases of menorrhagia. ... 2. Colloquialism for a profuse menstrual discharge. ... Origin: A.S. Flod ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona
    
    
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    flood
    flowage noun the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
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    flood
    floodlight noun light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
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    flood
    oversupply verb supply with an excess of; `flood the market with tennis shoes`; `Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient`
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    flood
    verb cover with liquid, usually water; `The swollen river flooded the village`; `The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes`
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    flood
    outpouring noun a large flow
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    Flood
    A `flood` is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge.MSN Encarta Dictionary. Retrieved on 2006-12-28. In the sense of `flowing water`, the word is applied to the inflow of the tide, as opposed to the outflow or `ebb`. It is usually due to the mass of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, exceeding the total capacity of the body, and as a result some of the water flows or sits outside of the normal perime...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood
    
    
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    Flood
    • (v. i.) 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. • (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley. • (v. i.) A great flo...
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    flood
    high-water stage in which water overflows its natural or artificial banks onto normally dry land, such as a river inundating its floodplain. The ... [61 related articles]
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    Flood
    A floodlight: a lantern which gives a wide-spreading, unfocused beam of light. These can be symmetric (i.e. casting the light equally in all directions) or asymmetric (casting it more in one direction than the others). The symmetric flood is probably the cheapest stage lantern - and the least useful!
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/docs/teatre.rtf
    
    
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    Flood
    Inundation of a land surface that is not normally submerged by water from quick change in the level of a water body like a lake, stream, or ocean.
    Found on http://www.physicalgeography.net/physgeo
    
    
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    Flood
    The widest beam spread on a lensed light. (Lighting)
    Found on http://www.filmland.com/glossary/Diction
    
    
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    FLOOD
    A incoming current
    Found on http://www.tcmall.com/nauticalknowhow/GL
    
    
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    FLOOD
    High water flow or an overflow of rivers or streams from their natural or artificial banks, inundating adjacent low lying areas.
    Found on http://www.weather.com/glossary/f.html