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Flooding vs Sandbag - What's the difference?

flooding | sandbag |

As verbs the difference between flooding and sandbag

is that flooding is while sandbag is to construct a wall of sandbags (around something).

As nouns the difference between flooding and sandbag

is that flooding is an act of flooding; a flood or gush while sandbag is a bag, filled with sand, that can be used to weigh something down, to make a defensive wall against flooding etc, or as a weapon.

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!

    sandbag

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a bag, filled with sand, that can be used to weigh something down, to make a defensive wall against flooding etc, or as a weapon
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To construct a wall of sandbags (around something).
  • To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
  • To deceive someone by pretending to be weak, or (in cards) to have a weak hand.
  • To pretend to drink early on so that as the night draws on one can drink everyone "under the table".