Burst vs Flood - What's the difference?
burst | flood |
An instance of, or the act of bursting .
A series of shots fired from an automatic firearm.
To break from internal pressure.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 To cause to break from internal pressure.
(obsolete) To cause to break by any means.
* Shakespeare
* Fairfax
To separate formfeed at perforation lines.
To enter or exit hurriedly and unexpectedly.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
* 1913 , (Mariano Azuela), The Underdogs, translated by E. MunguÍa, Jr.
To produce as an effect of bursting.
A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood
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*: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.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (lb) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
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The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood , leads on to fortune.
A floodlight.
Menstrual discharge; menses.
:(Harvey)
To overflow.
To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
(figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot easily be dealt with.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=David Ornstein
, title=Blackburn 0 - 4 Man City
, work=BBC Sport
(Internet, computing) To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.
English ergative verbs
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As a noun burst
is an instance of, or the act of bursting .As a verb burst
is to break from internal pressure.As a proper noun flood is
(biblical) the flood referred to in the book of genesis in the old testament.burst
English
(wikipedia burst)Noun
(en noun)- The bursts of the bombs could be heard miles away.
Derived terms
* cloudburstVerb
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- You will not pay for the glasses you have burst ?
- He burst his lance against the sand below.
- He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it dashed along.
- Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
- to burst a hole through the wall
Quotations
* (English Citations of "burst")Derived terms
* burst forth * burst into flame * burst out * burst someone's bubbleflood
English
(wikipedia flood)Alternative forms
* floud (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}
Verb
(en verb)- The floor was flooded with beer.
- They flooded the room with sewage.
- The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.
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