Flood vs Liquid - What's the difference?
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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.
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, 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.
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(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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(physics) A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
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, title= (phonetics) An l'' or ''r sound.
* 1999 , Ingo Plag, Morphological Productivity (page 86)
Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
(finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
(finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth.
Fluid and transparent.
As nouns the difference between flood and liquid
is that flood is a (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water while liquid is a substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.As a verb flood
is to overflow.As a proper noun Flood
is the flood referred to in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament.As an adjective liquid is
flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.flood
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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Synonyms
* (overflow) overfill * (cover) inundate * (provide with large number) inundate, swamp, delugeReferences
liquid
English
(wikipedia liquid)Noun
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
Usage notes
The differentiation of a liquid as an incompressible fluid is not strictly correct, experiment having shown that liquids are compressible to a very limited extent. See fluid.Coordinate terms
* solid * gasSee also
* fluidAdjective
(en adjective)- liquid nitrogen
- a liquid melody
- L and R are liquid letters.
- the liquid air