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  1. Flood
    [Herbie Hancock album] Flood is the eighteenth album by Herbie Hancock. It was originally released only in Japan in 1975 as a double LP, and features the Headhunters Band, performing their hits from the Head Hunters, Thrust and Man-Child albums. It has received a Japanese CD release, but not a US release. ==Track listing== ==Personnel== ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_(Herb

  2. Flood
    [novel] Flood is a 2002 disaster thriller novel by Richard Doyle. Set in present day London, the novel depicts a disastrous flood and fire of London, caused by a storm, and the consequential accident at an oil refinery, and failure of the Thames Barrier. ==Plot summary== In 1953 the East coa...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_(nove

  3. Flood
    [film] Screenplay: Justin Bodle Matthew Cope Nick Morley | starring = Robert Carlyle Flood is a British disaster film from 2007, directed by Tony Mitchell It features Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, David Suchet and Tom Courtenay, and is based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Richard D...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_(film

  4. 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 b...
    Found on http://foldoc.org/flood

  5. Flood
    [Boris album] Flood is the third album by Japanese band Boris. Like the previous albums, it stays lengthy and massively slow, but in addition to sludge influences such as the Melvins and Sleep, there are undertones of psychedelic rock. The back cover lists only one track, but the CD actually...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_(Bori

  6. Flood
    [mythology] Taken at Dotonbori, west of Shinsaibashi ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_(myth

  7. Flood
    To cover a printed page with ink, varnish, or plastic coating.
    Found on http://www.printusa.com/glos.htm

  8. 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.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/swces

  9. Flood
    Meaning as a surname: Stream/gutter.
    Found on http://www.nameseekers.co.uk/surname.htm

  10. 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] ...
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  11. 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

  12. 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.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  13. 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.

  14. 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 ove...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  15. 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 flōð , Swedish ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/45

  16. 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<...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/45

  17. 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

  18. flood
    flowage noun the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  19. flood
    floodlight noun light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  20. flood
    oversupply verb supply with an excess of; `flood the market with tennis shoes`; `Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  21. flood
    verb cover with liquid, usually water; `The swollen river flooded the village`; `The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  22. flood
    outpouring noun a large flow
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  23. 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 ri...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  24. 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]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/37

  25. Flood
    [video game] Flood is a 1990 computer game developed by Bullfrog Productions. It was published for the Amiga and Atari ST by Electronic Arts. The game is a Platform game where the objective is to collect all the litter and find the exit to the level. The game was not a huge commercial succes...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_(vide



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27 May 2012

This day in history: The Queen Mary made her maiden voyage, on the Southampton-Cherbourg-New York route, on 27 May 1936. The passenger accommodation emphasised the first two classes, cabin and tourist. The propulsion machinery of the ship produced a massive 160,000 SHP and gave it a speed of over 30 knots. Despite expectations that the ship would try to break speed records on its first voyage a thick fog destroyed any hope of this. The Queen Mary spent a short time in drydock during July whilst adjustments were made to the propellers and turbines. When the ship returned to service, in August, it made a record voyage from Bishop's Rock to Ambrose light and took the Blue Riband from the Normandie. read more

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