(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.
Paddy
Definition:
(a.) Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
(n.) A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.
(n.) Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paddy Crerand was interviewed on Irish radio station Newstalk this morning and was in complete denial that Ferguson was about to retire.
(2) Anopheles philippinensis, the usual vector in the paddy field habitat, was not present, but 1.4% of parous An.
(3) would have blown Paddy’s mind; he would have been shocked as well as delighted that we had created this for him.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A North Korean woman carries her belongings on her head as she walks through green rice paddies on the outskirts of Pyongyang.
(5) Digoniostoma pulchella, collected from paddy fields at Chelembra, Malappuram district of Kerala, during the monsoon months.
(6) Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat campaign manager, accused Cameron of using the Greens to duck TV debates, adding: “Not since the photos of Cameron driving huskies have green issues been so cynically harnessed to Tory interest.” The broadcasters have proposed three one-hour TV debates, the first involving the Ukip, Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative leaders, the second Lib Dem, Labour and Tory.
(7) It may also be timely to appear more serious, seeing as Paddy seems to have misplaced its sense of humour of late, Betfair never had one in the first place, and rivals trying to emulate the old Paddy-style jokes look very tired.
(8) The 16 people named in the charges are: Patricia Quinn; Sean Quinn Junior; Collete Marie Quinn; Aoife Quinn; Brenda Quinn; Ciara Quinn; Paddy McKillen; Séamus Ross; Brian O'Farrell; John McCabe; Gerard Maguire; Patrick Kearney; Gerard Conlon; Gerard Gannon; Seán Reilly and Joseph O'Reilly.
(9) Billy Power has taken on responsibilities for generations of dependents and for prisoners still in jail; Paddy Hill's have extended even further.
(10) I knew I was the image of Paddy, and I don't think he saw me.
(11) Van Gaal will again have to call on some of his young defenders, with Paddy McNair and Tyler Blackett, who have each made their debuts this season, under consideration.
(12) Should we feel ashamed about these limits of national will, as Paddy Ashdown said yesterday ?
(13) Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Jonny Evans, Tyler Blackett, Paddy McNair and Daley Blind – all of whom featured against America – along with Marcos Rojo, who is also resting after the Copa América, are in a fight for the two centre-back berths.
(14) Paddy wasn’t at all clear about who, other than those who already counted themselves as Lib Dems but were too embarrassed to admit it in public, was going to join Pademos though he seemed to be under the impression that Conservative MP Anna Soubry, would find it impossible not to join once she knew of its existence.
(15) Bookmaker Paddy Power is currently offering odds of 16-1 on The Force Awakens passing Avatar’s total by June 2016.
(16) The 53-year-old farmer grew up in Paro, surrounded by mountains and streams, but has found it increasingly difficult to work his two acres of rice paddy.
(17) Basically, if Looking was a show about women, and Paddy was female, we'd hate him.
(18) But early audience figures for Big Brother suggests viewers are missing the celebrity sparkle – such as it was – provided by the likes of Kerry Katona and the show's eventual winner, Paddy Doherty .
(19) If Moyes felt reprieved when Andros Townsend cut inside and curled a late shot wide, his afternoon was ruined when Paddy McNair needlessly conceded a free-kick, taken near the corner flag by Lee Chung-yong and, deep into stoppage time, an unmarked Benteke rose imperiously to clinch it.
(20) Paddy was thinking big with the catchy title of More United.