Cloudburst vs Deluge - What's the difference?
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A sudden heavy rainstorm.
* 1899 , , "A Cup of Cold Water" in The Greater Inclination :
* 1908 , , The Riverman , ch. 38:
* 1936 Aug. 17, "
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A great flood or rain.
An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
* Milton
* Lowell
(Military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
* NAVEDTRA 14324A
To flood with water.
To overwhelm.
As nouns the difference between cloudburst and deluge
is that cloudburst is a sudden heavy rainstorm while deluge is a great flood or rain.As a verb deluge is
to flood with water.As a proper noun Deluge is
the Biblical flood during the time of Noah.cloudburst
English
(wikipedia cloudburst)Alternative forms
* cloud-burstNoun
(en noun)- [B]ut the sound . . . expressed an utter abandonment to grief; not the cloud-burst of some passing emotion, but the slow down-pour of a whole heaven of sorrow.
- A cloudburst in the China Creek district followed by continued heavy rains was responsible for the increased water.
Miscellany," Time (retrieved 20 May 2014):
- In Uniontown, Pa., John Walchesky & family rushed from their house when lightning set it afire, rushed in again when a cloudburst put out the blaze.
Devotion'', chapter 1" (book excerpt), ''New York Times (retrieved 20 May 2014):
- [H]e walked across the lawn, wet from a fleeting late-afternoon cloudburst , the first rain in a month.
Synonyms
* cloudbustdeluge
English
Noun
(en noun)- The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
- The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
- A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
- The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.
- In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.
Verb
- After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.