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flood
English
Alternative forms
- floud (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English flod, from Old English fl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *fl?du, from Proto-Germanic *fl?duz, from *plew- (“to flow”). Cognate with Scots flude, fluid, Saterland Frisian Floud, Dutch vloed, German Flut, Danish flod, Icelandic flóð, and Gothic ???????????????????????? (fl?dus).
Pronunciation
- enPR: fl?d, IPA(key): /fl?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
flood (plural floods)
- A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- A floodlight.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Harvey to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Who beheld from the safe shore their floating carcasses and broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown, abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, under amazement of their hideous change.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- deluge
- diversion
- inundation
- torrent
Verb
flood (third-person singular simple present floods, present participle flooding, simple past and past participle flooded)
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- The floor was flooded with beer.
- They flooded the room with sewage.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- (Internet, transitive, intransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- 1998, "Dr. Cat", Furry web site plug (on newsgroup alt.fan.furry)
- There's also a spam filter in the code now, so if someone attempts to flood people's screens with macros or a bot, everything after the first few lines is thrown away.
- 1998, "Dr. Cat", Furry web site plug (on newsgroup alt.fan.furry)
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
Antonyms
- (overflow): drain
Synonyms
- (overflow): overfill
- (cover): inundate
- (provide with large number): inundate, swamp, deluge
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- of old
Middle English
Noun
flood
- Alternative form of flod
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English flood.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?fl?d??/
Noun
flood m (plural floods)
- (Internet slang) a flood of superfluous text messages
Related terms
- floodar
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immerse
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin immersus, from immerg?, from in + merg?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m??(?)s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
Verb
immerse (third-person singular simple present immerses, present participle immersing, simple past and past participle immersed)
- (transitive) To place within a fluid (generally a liquid, but also a gas).
- 1883, The Electrical Journal, page 501:
- ... the two plates of platinum immersed in oxygen and hydrogen gases
- 1841, William Rhind, A history of the vegetable kingdom, page 110:
- Even after the process of germination has taken place, if the young plant be immersed in an atmosphere of either of those gases [hydrogen and nitrogen], vegetation and life will immediately cease.
- 1955, George Shortley, Dudley Williams, Elements of Physics for Students of Science and Engineering
- The buoyant force of the atmospheric air on solids and liquids immersed in it is for most purposes negligible compared to the weight of solid or liquid, ...
- Archimedes determined the volume of objects by immersing them in water.
- 1883, The Electrical Journal, page 501:
- (transitive) To involve or engage deeply.
- The sculptor immersed himself in anatomic studies.
- (transitive, mathematics) To map into an immersion.
- 2002, Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture (page 40)
- Thus, in mathematical terms a Klein bottle cannot be "embedded" but only "immersed" in three dimensions as an embedding has no self-intersections but an immersion may have them.
- 2002, Kari Jormakka, Flying Dutchmen: Motion in Architecture (page 40)
Synonyms
- submerge
Derived terms
- immersion
- immersive
Translations
Adjective
immerse (comparative more immerse, superlative most immerse)
- (obsolete) Immersed; buried; sunk.
Italian
Adjective
immerse f pl
- feminine plural of immerso
Verb
immerse
- third-person singular past historic of immergere
- feminine plural past participle of immergere
Latin
Participle
immerse
- vocative masculine singular of immersus
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