Flooding vs Deluge - What's the difference?
flooding | deluge |
An act of flooding; a flood or gush.
* (Mark Twain)
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 a verb flooding
is .As a noun flooding
is an act of flooding; a flood or gush.As a proper noun deluge is
(bible) the biblical flood during the time of noah.flooding
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!
deluge
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.