Deluge vs Soak - What's the difference?
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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.
(label) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
* Bible, (w) xxiv. 7
(label) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
(label) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
(label) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up )
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(label) To heat a metal before shaping it.
To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
(label) To absorb; to drain.
An immersion in water etc.
* "After the climb, I had a nice long soak in a bath."
(slang, British) A drunkard.
(Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
* 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber & Faber 2003, p. 38:
Deluge is a related term of soak.
As a proper noun deluge
is (bible) the biblical flood during the time of noah.As a verb soak is
(label) to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.As a noun soak is
an immersion in water etc.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.
References
* 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988See also
* inundate ----soak
English
Verb
(en verb)- Their land shall be soaked with blood.
- The rivulet beneath soaked its way obscurely through wreaths of snow.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
Noun
(en noun)- I set off early to walk along the Melbourne Road where, one of the punters had told me, there was a soak with plenty of frogs in it.