flood /ˈflʌd/
 洪水,水災;漲潮,漲水;一大陣,大量(vt.)淹沒;湧進,充滿(vi.)發大水,氾濫


 flood /ˈfləd/ 不及物動詞
 氾濫,淹沒:以均勻射線照射閃爍照相機nai晶體面上所得到的像,溢流,漲溢


 Flood n.
 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.
 A covenant never to destroy
 The earth again by flood.   --Milton.
 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.
 There is a tide in the affairs of men,
 Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.   --Shak.
 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.
 4. Menstrual disharge; menses.
 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.


 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.
 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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 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"


 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.