You can picture flood as a huge amount of water pouring in and covering a place that's normally dry. Hold that one picture: from it, anything that arrives in an , rush — people, letters, light, memories — is a 'flood'.
From the word’s history
From Old English flod 'a flowing of water, tide, river', related to 'flow' — the basic picture has always been water flowing in great quantity.
源自古英語 flod（水的流動、潮水、河流），與 flow（流）同源。最早的畫面比較像「大量的水在流動」，與現代核心的「水猛灌進來」一脈相承。
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原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
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Floodname詞源 1/flʌd/
- 1
biblicallifestylereligionThe flood referred to in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
- The result of the Dispensation of Conscience was that “all flesh had corrupted his way on the earth;” that “the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually ;” and God closed the second testing of the natural man with judgment—the Flood.[…] Out of the fearful judgment of the Flood God saved eight persons to whom, after the waters were assuaged, He gave the purified earth with ample power to govern it. This, Noah and his descendants were responsible to do.
Floodname詞源 2/flʌd/
- 1
A surname.
floodnoun/flʌd/
- 1
An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
- 2
A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- a flood of complaints
- Deregulation of financial markets laid the groundwork for the subprime crisis in the United States, while a badly designed euro contributed to the debt crisis in Greece, and the Schengen system of open borders made it difficult to control the flood of refugees in Europe.
- 3
The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
- It was ebb tide when she touched, and it was supposed that when the flood made she would float off again.
- 4
A floodlight.
- 5
Menstrual discharge; menses.
- 6
obsoleteWater as opposed to land.
- Who beheld from the safe shore their floating carcasses and broken chariot-wheels. So thick bestrown, abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, under amazement of their hideous change.
floodverb/flʌd/
- 1
To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- People flooded into the streets in protest.
- The basement flooded with rainwater.
- 2
To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- The floor was flooded with beer.
- They flooded the room with sewage.
- 3
To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.
- Blackburn offered nothing going forward in the opening period and that continued after the break, encouraging City to flood forward.
- 4
To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- There's also a spam filter in the code now, so if someone attempts to flood people's screens with macros or a bot, everything after the first few lines is thrown away.
- 5
To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
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