different between volley vs deluge

English

Etymology

From Middle French volée (“flight”), from Vulgar Latin volta, from Late Latin volatus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?li/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?li/
• Rhymes: -?li

Noun

volley (plural volleys)

1. The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired.
2. A burst or emission of many things at once.

   • When we do speak at volley
3. (sports) The flight of a ball just before it bounces.
4. (sports) A shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground.
5. (cricket) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.

Translations

Verb

volley (third-person singular simple present volleys, present participle volleying, simple past and past participle volleyed)

1. (transitive) To fire a volley of shots
2. (sports, transitive) To hit the ball before it touches the ground
3. (intransitive) To be fired in a volley
4. (sports, intransitive) To make a volley
5. To sound together

Translations

Derived terms

• half volley
• scorpion volley
• volleyball

Anagrams

• Lovely, lovely

French

Etymology

From English volleyball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?.l?/

Noun

volley m (uncountable)

1. (sports, colloquial) volleyball

Synonyms

• volley-ball, volleyball

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

volley m (invariable)

1. volleyball

   Synonym: pallavolo

Derived terms

• vollistico

English

Etymology

From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin d?luvium, from d?lu? (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?l.ju?d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?l.ju(d)?/, /d??lu(d)?/

Noun

deluge (plural deluges)

1. A great flood or rain.

   The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.

2. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.

   The rock concert was a deluge of sound.

   • 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal

     The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.

3. (military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
   • 2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A

     In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.

Translations

Verb

deluge (third-person singular simple present deluges, present participle deluging, simple past and past participle deluged)

1. (transitive) To flood with water.
2. (transitive) To overwhelm.

Translations

References

• 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN

See also

• inundate

Middle English

Alternative forms

• diluge

Etymology

From Old French deluge, from Latin d?luvium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??liu?d?(?)/

Noun

deluge (Late Middle English)

1. A deluge; a massive flooding or raining.
2. (rare, figuratively) Any cataclysmic or catastrophic event.

Descendants

• English: deluge

References

• “d?l??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin d?luvium.

Noun

deluge m (oblique plural deluges, nominative singular deluges, nominative plural deluge)

1. large flood

Descendants

• French: déluge
• ? Middle English: deluge
  • English: deluge