Oversupply vs Deluge - What's the difference?
oversupply | deluge | Related terms |
To supply more than is needed
An excessive supply.
*2012 , (Jurek Martin), ‘A Singular President’, Literary Review , 401:
*:He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital.
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.
Oversupply is a related term of deluge.
As a verb oversupply
is to supply more than is needed.As a noun oversupply
is an excessive supply.As a proper noun deluge is
(bible) the biblical flood during the time of noah.oversupply
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(oversupplies)deluge
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(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.