ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DELUGE
From Old French, from Latin dīluvium a washing away, flood, from dīluere to wash away, drench, from di-dis-1 + -luere, from lavere to wash.
CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DELUGE
PRESENT
Present
I deluge
you deluge
he/she/it deluges
we deluge
you deluge
they deluge
Present continuous
I am deluging
you are deluging
he/she/it is deluging
we are deluging
you are deluging
they are deluging
Present perfect
I have deluged
you have deluged
he/she/it has deluged
we have deluged
you have deluged
they have deluged
Present perfect continuous
I have been deluging
you have been deluging
he/she/it has been deluging
we have been deluging
you have been deluging
they have been deluging
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I deluged
you deluged
he/she/it deluged
we deluged
you deluged
they deluged
Past continuous
I was deluging
you were deluging
he/she/it was deluging
we were deluging
you were deluging
they were deluging
Past perfect
I had deluged
you had deluged
he/she/it had deluged
we had deluged
you had deluged
they had deluged
Past perfect continuous
I had been deluging
you had been deluging
he/she/it had been deluging
we had been deluging
you had been deluging
they had been deluging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will deluge
you will deluge
he/she/it will deluge
we will deluge
you will deluge
they will deluge
Future continuous
I will be deluging
you will be deluging
he/she/it will be deluging
we will be deluging
you will be deluging
they will be deluging
Future perfect
I will have deluged
you will have deluged
he/she/it will have deluged
we will have deluged
you will have deluged
they will have deluged
Future perfect continuous
I will have been deluging
you will have been deluging
he/she/it will have been deluging
we will have been deluging
you will have been deluging
they will have been deluging
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would deluge
you would deluge
he/she/it would deluge
we would deluge
you would deluge
they would deluge
Conditional continuous
I would be deluging
you would be deluging
he/she/it would be deluging
we would be deluging
you would be deluging
they would be deluging
Conditional perfect
I would have deluge
you would have deluge
he/she/it would have deluge
we would have deluge
you would have deluge
they would have deluge
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been deluging
you would have been deluging
he/she/it would have been deluging
we would have been deluging
you would have been deluging
they would have been deluging
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you deluge
we let´s deluge
you deluge
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
deluging
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DELUGE»
The term «deluge» is quite widely used and occupies the
39.049 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
FREQUENCY
Quite widely used
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7 QUOTES WITH «DELUGE»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
deluge.
Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.
Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing - which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out - that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DELUGE»
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deluge in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
deluge and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley finds the true heroes of this unparalleled catastrophe, and lets the survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina.
Tells the story of three generations of a Native American family and their Ojibwe teachings and legends
3
Before the
Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the ...
By doing so, the book throws new light on a neglected aspect of modern political thought and on the French Revolution.
4
Before the
Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, A
A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.
This Wesleyan edition is graced with an excellent introduction and annotations by leading science fiction scholar Brian Stableford.
Sydney Fowler Wright, Brian M. Stableford, 2003
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From Deficit to
Deluge: The Origins of the French Revolution
Seven authorities in their respective fields come together to offer a new interpretation of the French Revolution: they show how the French monarchy's clumsy efforts to solve a fiscal crisis politicized long-standing structural problems, ...
Thomas E. Kaiser, Dale Van Kley, 2011
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Deluge: Book Two of Two - Death Rode a White Horse
DELUGE is a continuation of the two part Biblical series following DEATH RODE A WHITE HORSE.
CSI: New York Stuart M. Kaminsky. DELUGE 1 SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN had
fallen in Central Park. TM.
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A.D.: New Orleans After the
Deluge
Uses graphic novel format to depict the events of Hurricane Katrina though six true stories of New Orleanians who survived the storm, including Denise, who experienced the chaos of the Superdome, and a doctor whose French Quarter home was ...
10
The Data
Deluge: Can Libraries Cope with E-science?
An essential collection of essays for librarians looking to provide E-science programs and capabilities to their institutions.
Deanna B. Marcum, Gerald George, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DELUGE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
deluge is used in the context of the following news items.
Making Sense of Data's Deluge
KW: Data is a big topic of conversation in payments specifically and yet there is so much confusion around what to do with it. When you talk to ... «PYMNTS.com, Jul 15»
Surviving the milk deluge
The challenge before India is to boost milk production and find an outlet for surplus milk in sub-regions while being linked with the global dairy ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
Aberdeen's roads worst hit by deluge chaos
A yellow “be aware” weather warning for heavy showers had been issued earlier by the Met Office but the deluge still took many by surprise. «The Courier, Jul 15»
Deluge of Bay UFO sightings
More than 20 people from around the country have reported sightings of unidentified floating orange lights after a Bay of Plenty man shared his ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
Deluge of Din over Textbook Row Spills over to Streets
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:The inordinate delay in printing school textbooks and the police lathicharge on SFI activists during the protest ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
Tyre manufacturers to go to regulator over deluge of cheap imports
SA's R30bn tyre industry has decried the flood of cheap imports, particularly from China, and will take its gripes to the International Trade ... «BDlive, Jul 15»
Deluge of Strikes to Hit State at Random in July
PALAKKAD: For a monsoon month July has seen very little rain, but expect a deluge of strikes, called by various organisations, this month in ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
Hospitals get ready for deluge of patients
With heavy showers on Monday, the Delhi government ordered hospitals to have dedicated wards to treat patients with viral fevers, including ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
Deluge tears for commuters
Barely 86mm rain in less than 24 hours was enough to drown the 40-page standard operating procedure (SOP) the Patna Municipal ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jul 15»
Flooding concerns remain after storms pummel the Kansas City area
Tweets from around the KC region show incredible clouds and a deluge of water, including at Kauffman Stadium, where tonight's game was ... «Kansas City Star, Jul 15»
