Meaning of "flood" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FLOOD

Old English flōd; related to Old Norse flōth, Gothic flōdus, Old High German fluot flood, Greek plōtos navigable.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FLOOD

flʌd

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLOOD

Flood is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb flood in English.

WHAT DOES FLOOD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Flood

A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land which is usually dry. The European Union Floods Directive defines a flood as a covering by water of land not normally covered by water. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Flooding may occur as an overflow of water from water bodies, such as a river or lake, in which the water overtops or breaks levees, resulting in some of that water escaping its usual boundaries, or it may occur due to an accumulation of rainwater on saturated ground in an areal flood. While the size of a lake or other body of water will vary with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt, these changes in size are unlikely to be considered significant unless they flood property or drown domestic animals. Floods can also occur in rivers when the flow rate exceeds the capacity of the river channel, particularly at bends or meanders in the waterway. Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if they are in the natural flood plains of rivers.

Definition of flood in the English dictionary

The first definition of flood in the dictionary is the inundation of land that is normally dry through the overflowing of a body of water, esp a river. Other definition of flood is the state of a river that is at an abnormally high level related adjective diluvial. Flood is also a great outpouring or flow.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO FLOOD

PRESENT

Present

I flood

you flood

he/she/it floods

we flood

you flood

they flood

Present continuous

I am flooding

you are flooding

he/she/it is flooding

we are flooding

you are flooding

they are flooding

Present perfect

I have flooded

you have flooded

he/she/it has flooded

we have flooded

you have flooded

they have flooded

Present perfect continuous

I have been flooding

you have been flooding

he/she/it has been flooding

we have been flooding

you have been flooding

they have been flooding

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 flooded

you flooded

he/she/it flooded

we flooded

you flooded

they flooded

Past continuous

I was flooding

you were flooding

he/she/it was flooding

we were flooding

you were flooding

they were flooding

Past perfect

I had flooded

you had flooded

he/she/it had flooded

we had flooded

you had flooded

they had flooded

Past perfect continuous

I had been flooding

you had been flooding

he/she/it had been flooding

we had been flooding

you had been flooding

they had been flooding

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will flood

you will flood

he/she/it will flood

we will flood

you will flood

they will flood

Future continuous

I will be flooding

you will be flooding

he/she/it will be flooding

we will be flooding

you will be flooding

they will be flooding

Future perfect

I will have flooded

you will have flooded

he/she/it will have flooded

we will have flooded

you will have flooded

they will have flooded

Future perfect continuous

I will have been flooding

you will have been flooding

he/she/it will have been flooding

we will have been flooding

you will have been flooding

they will have been flooding

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would flood

you would flood

he/she/it would flood

we would flood

you would flood

they would flood

Conditional continuous

I would be flooding

you would be flooding

he/she/it would be flooding

we would be flooding

you would be flooding

they would be flooding

Conditional perfect

I would have flood

you would have flood

he/she/it would have flood

we would have flood

you would have flood

they would have flood

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been flooding

you would have been flooding

he/she/it would have been flooding

we would have been flooding

you would have been flooding

they would have been flooding

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you flood
we let´s flood
you flood

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to flood

Past participle

flooded

Present Participle

flooding

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.

SYNONYMS OF «FLOOD»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «flood» and belong to the same grammatical category.

abundance · avalanche · barrage · choke · deluge · downpour · drown · engulf · fill · flash flood · flow · freshet · glut · immerse · inundate · inundation · multitude · outpouring · overfill · overflow · oversupply · overwhelm · pour · profusion · run over · rush · saturate · series · spate · stream · submerge · surge · swamp · tide · torrent

TRANSLATION OF FLOOD

Find out the translation of flood to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of flood from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flood» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 洪水
• Translator English - Spanish: inundación
• English: flood
• Translator English - Hindi: बाढ़
• Translator English - Arabic: فَيَضَان
• Translator English - Russian: потоп
• Translator English - Portuguese: enchente
• Translator English - Bengali: বন্যা
• Translator English - French: inondation
• Translator English - Malay: Banjir
• Translator English - German: Flut
• Translator English - Japanese: 洪水
• Translator English - Korean: 홍수
• Translator English - Javanese: Banjir
• Translator English - Vietnamese: lũ lụt
• Translator English - Tamil: வெள்ள
• Translator English - Marathi: पूर
• Translator English - Turkish: sel
• Translator English - Italian: inondazione
• Translator English - Polish: powódź
• Translator English - Ukrainian: повінь
• Translator English - Romanian: inundație
• Translator English - Greek: πλημμύρα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: vloed
• Translator English - Swedish: översvämning
• Translator English - Norwegian: oversvømmelse

10 QUOTES WITH «FLOOD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word flood.

1

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

2

A. R. Ammons

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

3

Emily Greene Balch

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

4

Vinoba Bhave

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

5

Earl Blumenauer

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

6

Ben Bradlee

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

7

Quentin Bryce

Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.

8

Nicolas Chamfort

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

9

Raymond Chandler

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

10

Michael Chertoff

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLOOD»

Discover the use of flood in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flood and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Flood

Four hostages are rescued from a group of religious extremists in Barcelona.

Stephen Baxter, 2009

Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event ...

Basing their research on geophysics, oral legends, and archaeology, the authors offer evidence that the flood in the book of Genesis actually occurred.

William Ryan, Walter Pitman, 2000

The Year of the Flood

In this second book of the MaddAddam trilogy, the long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life.

Margaret Atwood, 2009

Flood

A beautiful wordless picture book about the effects of a flood on a family and their home.

Mari Schuh, 2013

Flood

The Thames catches fire and the wall of fire and water thunders towards Britain’s capital. This is the story of what happens next, and the desperate attempts to save the capital from destruction.

Richard Doyle, 2003

Flood

Introduces what floods are, conditions that exist during floods, their harmful and beneficial effects, and their impact on humans, plants, and animals.

Catherine Chambers, 2007

Halo: The Flood

Its purpose: the destruction of all sentient life. For the Forerunners built the Halo to battle the universe’s most vicious enemy---a virtually unstoppable and suddenly reawakened force known as The Flood.

William C. Dietz, 2010

Flood

London, 1877. Phoebe Flood, a watch mender's daughter from Blackfriars, is hired as lady's maid to the glamorous Louisa LeClerk, a high class tart with connections to the underworld of gentlemen pornographers.

Anna Clare, 2010

An Introduction to Hinduism

This book provides a much-needed thematic and historical introduction to Hinduism, the religion of the majority of people in India.

Gavin D. Flood, 1996

Johnstown Flood

The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.

David McCullough, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLOOD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term flood is used in the context of the following news items.

Flood clean up in Linden | Local - KY3.com

On Saturday, the people in Linden, a small community where highway 125 crosses the Finley River were surveying flood damage from the day ... «KY3, Jul 15»

Flooding rekindles debate over flood plain development | www …

Despite participating in a federal program that tasks cities with managing development in flood-prone areas, the city of San Marcos regularly ... «MyStatesman.com, Jul 15»

North East flood risk areas to be better protected thanks to …

The Northumbria Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (NRFCC) has launched its spending plans for 2015/16, which will include work at ... «ChronicleLive, Jul 15»

Your tax dollars repeatedly repair flood-prone homes - KSAT.com

SAN ANTONIO - Billions of tax dollars are being spent on rebuilding and protecting expensive flood-prone homes around the country that have ... «KSAT San Antonio, Jul 15»

Severe thunderstorm watch, flood advisory includes Isle of Wight …

Southern Hampton Roads was put on alert Saturday afternoon for that could be severe thunderstorms and flooding in some areas, accoring to ... «Daily Press, Jul 15»

Family gets help from police, furniture store after flood - KSDK.com

The family needed help, but had no idea it would come from Ashley Furniture Homestore and officers from the Illinois Secretary of State Police. «KSDK, Jul 15»

Crews repairing Franklin County flood damage - TimesDaily: News

Work is underway to replace a bridge at the intersection of Benton St. and Stony Brook Drive in Russellville that was damaged by the heavy ... «Times Daily, Jul 15»

Villages inundated in Narowal, flood alert issued for Gujranwala …

More than 12 villages including Jabokay, Suhwal, Hassan Bhatian, Nadala and Budha Turg are inundated due to high-level flood in Nullah ... «Pakistan Today, Jul 15»

Flood warning issued in three districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa …

PESHAWAR (Web Desk) – A flood warning cell in Peshawar on Saturday reported that there is a medium level flood in River Kabul at Nowshera and Warsak. «DunyaNews Pakistan, Jul 15»

Texas motorist dies in flash flood in Kansas | News OK

Texas motorist dies in flash flood in Kansas. Published on NewsOK Modified: July 11, 2015 at 2:53 pm • Published: July 11, 2015. Advertisement. EMPORIA ... «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»