different between flood vs jade

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)

1. 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.
2. (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
3. The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
4. A floodlight.
5. Menstrual discharge; menses.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Harvey to this entry?)

6. (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.

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)

1. To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
2. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.

   The floor was flooded with beer.

   They flooded the room with sewage.

3. (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
4. (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.

5. 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

1. Alternative form of flod

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English flood.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?fl?d??/

Noun

flood m (plural floods)

1. (Internet slang) a flood of superfluous text messages

Related terms

• floodar

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”). (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side.)

Noun

jade (usually uncountable, plural jades)

2. A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

   Synonyms: jadestone, jade stone, yu

3. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.

   Synonym: jade green

4. A succulent plant, Crassula ovata.

   Synonyms: jade plant, lucky plant, money plant, money tree

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Adjective

jade (not comparable)

1. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.

Etymology 2

From Middle English [Term?], either a variant of yaud or merely influenced by it. Yaud derives from Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha ????? (el?de) or Erzya ????? (el?de). See yaud for more.

Noun

jade (plural jades)

1. A horse too old to be put to work.
   • 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Volume I, Chapter 10, p. 36,^[2]

     Let that be as it may, as my purpose is to do exact justice to every creature brought upon the stage of this dramatic work,—I could not stifle this distinction in favour of Don Quixote’s horse;—in all other points the parson’s horse, I say, was just such another,—for he was as lean, and as lank, and as sorry a jade, as HUMILITY herself could have bestrided.

   • 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 11,^[3]

     My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade’s pace.

   Synonyms: nag, yaud

2. (especially derogatory) A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene 1,^[4]

     You always end with a jade’s trick: I know you of old.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume I, Book I, Chapter 4, p. 14,^[5]

     However, what she withheld from the Infant, she bestowed with the utmost Profuseness on the poor unknown Mother, whom she called an impudent Slut, a wanton Hussy, an audacious Harlot, a wicked Jade, a vile Strumpet, with every other Appellation with which the Tongue of Virtue never fails to lash those who bring a Disgrace on the Sex.

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter III:

     ‘You shall pay me for the plague of having you eternally in my sight—do you hear, damnable jade?’

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 9:

     Sir Pitt Crawley was a philosopher with a taste for what is called low life. His first marriage with the daughter of the noble Binkie had been made under the auspices of his parents; and as he often told Lady Crawley in her lifetime she was such a confounded quarrelsome high-bred jade that when she died he was hanged if he would ever take another of her sort ...

Synonyms

• (bad-tempered woman): See Thesaurus:shrew or Thesaurus:woman

Translations

Verb

jade (third-person singular simple present jades, present participle jading, simple past and past participle jaded)

1. To tire, weary or fatigue

   • The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, […] checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.

2. (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
3. (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

Synonyms

• (to tire): See Thesaurus:tire

Derived terms

• jaded

Translations

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja?d?/, [?jæ?ð?]
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

jade c (singular definite jaden, uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) jade

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?de/, [?j?de?]
• Rhymes: -?de
• Syllabification: ja?de

Noun

jade

1. (mineralogy) jade

Declension

French

Etymology

Rebracketed from earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ad/

Noun

jade m (plural jades)

1. jade

Descendants

Further reading

• “jade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• déjà

Portuguese

Etymology

From French le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ad?i

Noun

jade m (plural jades)

1. jade (gem)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

jade (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of jad

Spanish

Etymology

From French jade, back formation from le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (literally “flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xade/, [?xa.ð?e]

Noun

jade m (plural jades)

1. (mineralogy) jade

Derived terms

• jadeíta

Anagrams

• deja