What's the difference between flood and stream?

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.

Stream


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
  • (v. i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
  • (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
  • (n.) A beam or ray of light.
  • (n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
  • (n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
  • (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
  • (v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
  • (v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
  • (v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
  • (v. t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
  • (v. t.) To unfurl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
  • (2) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (3) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
  • (4) Starting from the hypothesis that a new type of cooperativity, dynamic cooperativity, is present in the elementary cycles of the chemo-mechanical conversion, quantitative and consistent agreement was obtained between the theoretical and experimental data on the temperature dependences of the streaming velocity and the ATPase activity, including the presence of the phase transition.
  • (5) Animal behaviour can be viewed as a stream of elements, which, once accurately described, can be counted and timed.
  • (6) Yesterday streams of worshippers and tourists entered Sir Christopher Wren's building for Sunday services, apparently unconcerned by events outside.
  • (7) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.
  • (8) To induce thrombosis we damaged the vessel wall over a short segment by compression and exposed the damaged media to the blood stream.
  • (9) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (10) Changes to the Mac Pro desktop computer are also expected, as is a new music streaming service .
  • (11) The clash is the latest in a deadly stream of attacks since July, which officials said had already claimed the lives of at least 70 members of the security services and hundreds of PKK militants.
  • (12) Both main-stream and side-stream cigarette smoke condensates and some fractions, containing water-soluble bases, water-insoluble bases, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, were found to induce AHH activity in lung and liver, the lung being induced to the greatest extent.
  • (13) The outstanding advantages in microsurgery are as follows: (1) After moderate hemodilution had been performed, blood stickiness was so reduced that the resistance of blood stream was decreased.
  • (14) A high stability of the blood stream in the vascular constructions studied is explained as a possibility of counterstream gas exchange between the arterial and venous blood in the truncal vascular micromodule.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Taylor Swift: Shake It Off Taylor Swift – 1989 Live web streams!
  • (16) The pulmonary efflux streams by the buccal contents with minimal mixing, and relatively pure air is pumped into the lungs.
  • (17) Jay-Z has won control of a Swedish music streaming company after more than 90% of shareholders accepted the star’s $54m (£36m) offer.
  • (18) The results of the present study focused on differences in types of self-touching by patients and physicians, semantic content of utterances when self-touching was displayed, and temporal location of self-touching within the speech stream.
  • (19) These convective streaming motions combine with molecular diffusion to produce augmented diffusion which transports O2 and CO2 between the trachea and the peripheral alveoli.
  • (20) The correct diagnosis was assisted by marked leucocytosis with the release of a major number of plasmatic cells into the peripheral blood stream.