What's the difference between flood and oversupply?
Flood
Definition:
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high 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. i.) Menstrual disharge; menses.
(v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
(v. t.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(2) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
(3) During Pakistan's recent floods, Chinese aid totalled $18m; the US gave nearly $700m.
(4) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
(5) In his interview, Smith accepts that the EA's response to the flooding has not been perfect.
(6) These changes led to a flooding of the alveoli with up to 40 times normal protein levels and a greater than fivefold increase in airway antiproteinase.
(7) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
(8) It will be protected from rising sea levels by a giant flood wall that environmental experts say could damage the communities further down the coast – and social justice campaigners have called the project a form of “climate apartheid” .
(9) As a result, low-lying areas, including Bangladesh, Florida, the Maldives and the Netherlands, will undergo catastrophic flooding, while in Britain large areas of the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary could disappear.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many locals said they had never known the flooding this bad.
(11) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(12) "And secondly, there will also be help with sand bags, which could help prevent further flooding."
(13) Allen's team has used the new technique to work out whether global warming worsened the UK floods in autumn 2000, which inundated 10,000 properties, disrupted power supplies and led to train services being cancelled, motorways closed and 11,000 people evacuated from their homes - at a total cost of £1bn.
(14) Her home in nearby Burrowbridge just about escaped flooding but she spends four days a week doing volunteer work for those who were not so fortunate.
(15) The data discussed in this article were gathered through use of a retrospective cohort survey five years following a major flood in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania.
(16) The solicitor did a search, they went through the parish records and local histories, they got a sworn statement from the vendors: in the 150-plus years since it was built, the farm had never flooded.
(17) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
(18) Source: Reuters Dirty old river If the notion of an Englishman’s castle as his home is being challenged on the Levels, where scores of properties flooded, the bursting of the Thames from its banks a few hundred yards from the royal castle of Windsor has raised the issue to a new height.
(19) The malaria threat is part of a wider health emergency, with more than 20 million people affected by the floods struggling to cope as the winter approaches.
(20) The £180m a year scheme is to be paid for by a £10.50 levy on all home insurance, from homeowners who are not at elevated risk of flooding as well as those who are.
Oversupply
Definition:
(v. t.) To supply in excess.
(n.) An excessive supply.
Example Sentences:
(1) Currently, Canadian crude can be pumped only as far as the U.S. Midwest, where a crude oil oversupply is keeping regional oil prices low.
(2) In the Intermountain Region this oversupply is concentrated in the medical and surgical subspecialties, not in primary care specialties.
(3) It is concluded that 1) during isovolemic hemodilution alone, oxygen supply to the brain and myocardium is maintained at the expense of oxygen supply to less critical organs and, 2) during combined isovolemic hemodilution and adenosine-induced hypotension, oxygen is oversupplied to the myocardium but undersupplied to the brain and kidney.
(4) Farmers have blamed the fall in prices on a supermarket price war but retailers claim the drop reflects an international decline in commodity prices and an oversupply of milk partly caused by Russia’s block on western imports.
(5) Iron oversupply in patients with cancer might enhance tumor growth and adversely affect cancer therapy.
(6) Characteristics features of the foetus may be consistent with the hypothesis as follows: The foetus in diabetic pregnancy is in varying degree exposed to an oversupply of glucose, hyperinsulinaemia, imbalanced uptake and a slightly diminished supply of amino acids.
(7) The women were less concerned about the oversupply of physicians and malpractice litigation.
(8) But they remained generally cautious after being buffeted by global factors including a commodity price rout, steel oversupply and China’s economic downturn.
(9) Will this help to regenerate deprived areas, or will we end up with an oversupply of properties that cannot be sold?
(10) Under supply chain legislation, tobacco firms have a legal obligation not to aid smuggling but HMRC has not fined any UK tobacco manufacturer for oversupplying products and has issued only one letter of warning.
(11) Funding constraints and an oversupply of cardiologists mitigate against continued training of increasing numbers of cardiology fellows.
(12) In a model experiment eight adult sows were used to examine the effect of successive periods of under- and oversupply of energy (MUMU) on thermogenesis and efficiency of energy utilization in comparison to a constant maintenance supply (NNNN).
(13) With the tremendous scope of problems cared for by orthopedists, there does not appear to be an oversupply; however, we are headed in that direction.
(14) In brief, a shortage and an oversupply of medical doctors coexist in the Arab world, and concerted action is required.
(15) In the early part of this decade, a number of factors produced a verified oversupply of pedodontists together with a declining population younger than eighteen years of age.
(16) Ric Spooner, the chief market analyst at Sydney’s CMC Markets, told Reuters that the world was still oversupplied with oil, even given increased demand and supply disruptions from Canadian wildfires and violence in Libya and Nigeria .
(17) The evolution of Medical Oncology is facing its first major crisis, that of oversupply of trained oncologists.
(18) And the Hong Kong-listed CLP Group, which owns Energy Australia – the company that holds Yallourn power station – has demanded a government policy to solve the “chronic oversupply” in Australia’s wholesale electricity market.
(19) Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, said Opec’s latest ministerial meeting in Vienna on Friday had been amicable, despite fears among some cartel members that a persistent oversupply of crude could push prices even lower.
(20) The ETS, aimed at reducing emissions from Europe's entire energy and industrial sectors, has been plagued by an oversupply of permits due in part to over-generous initial allocations following lobbying by industry.