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Flooding vs Floodplain - What's the difference?

flooding | floodplain |

As nouns the difference between flooding and floodplain

is that flooding is an act of flooding; a flood or gush while floodplain is (geography) an alluvial plain that may or may not experience occasional or periodic flooding.

As a verb flooding

is .

flooding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of flooding; a flood or gush.
  • * (Mark Twain)
    • 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!

    floodplain

    English

    Noun

    (flood plain) (en noun)
  • (geography) An alluvial plain that may or may not experience occasional or periodic flooding.

    • See also

    * alluvial plain