Difference between Deluge and Flood

DELUGE vs FLOOD: NOUN

A great flood or rain.
Fig.: Anything which overwhelms, or causes great destruction.
A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.).
Anything analogous to an inundation; anything that overwhelms or floods.
Any overflowing of water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, the great flood or overflowing of the earth (called the universal deluge) which, according to the account in Genesis, occurred in the days of Noah, or any of the similar floods found in the traditions of most ancient peoples, accompanied by a nearly total destruction of life. See flood.
In the Bible, the great flood that occurred in the time of Noah.
Something that overwhelms as if by a great flood.
A heavy downpour.
A great flood.
An overwhelming number or amount
A heavy rain
An overwhelming amount of something.
The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

A large amount or number, especially when moving from one place to another: : flow.
A flood tide.
An overflowing of water onto land that is normally dry.
The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
The inward flow of the tide
Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
The act of flooding; filling to overflowing
A large flow
A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
A floodlight
A floodlight, specifically a unit that produces a beam of intense light.
The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb
A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
The menstrual discharge when excessive.
Hence A great quantity; an overflowing abundance; a superabundance.
A great body or stream of any fluid or fluidlike substance; anything resembling such a stream: as, a flood of lava; a flood of light.
The inflow of the tide; the semidiurnal rise or swell of water in the ocean: opposed to ebb.
A great body of moving water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually covered with water; a deluge; an inundation.
A great body of water; the sea.
Flowing water; a stream, especially a great stream; a river.
A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; ; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance
Menstrual disharge; menses.
, the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.
A fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.
An overwhelming number or amount
A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
The deluge in the days of Noah.
The rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide.
The mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.
In the Bible, the covering of the earth with water that occurred during the time of Noah.
A large, broad body of water; main tide.
A gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.
The main ocean; main sea.

DELUGE vs FLOOD: VERB

To overwhelm.
Charge someone with too many tasks
Fill or cover completely, usually with water
Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
To flood with water.

To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot easily be dealt with.
To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.
Become filled to overflowing
Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
To overflow.
Supply with an excess of
Cover with liquid, usually water

DELUGE vs FLOOD: INTRANSITIVE VERB

To cover or submerge with water; inundate.
To overwhelm in large numbers.
To put too much fuel into the carburetor of (an engine), resulting in unsuccessful ignition.
To become inundated or submerged.
To pour forth; overflow.
To move into or fill in large numbers or amounts.

DELUGE vs FLOOD: TRANSITIVE VERB

To overrun with water; inundate.
To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.
To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy
To overwhelm with a large number or amount; swamp.

To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; ; to fill to excess or to its full capacity.
To overflow; to inundate; to deluge.

DELUGE vs FLOOD: OTHER WORD TYPES

As with a liquid
Fill quickly beyond capacity
To overwhelm; cause to sink under the weight of a general or spreading calamity.
To overrun like a flood; pour over in overwhelming numbers: as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies.
To pour over in a deluge; overwhelm with a flood; overflow; inundate; drown.
To suffer a deluge; be deluged.

To have an excessive menstrual discharge; also, to bleed profusely after parturition; suffer post-partum hemorrhage; flow, as a lying-in woman.
To be poured out abundantly; rise in a flood.
To overflow; inundate; deluge, literally or figuratively: as, to flood a building or a mine in order to extinguish a fire; to flood a meadow.
See splash, 4.
The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
Used in photography
The act of flooding
Filling to overflowing
-Shakespeare
Fill quickly beyond capacity
As with a liquid

DELUGE vs FLOOD: RELATED WORDS

Onslaught, Barrage, Flooding, Flood out, Waterspout, Submerge, Soaker, Swamp, Overwhelm, Cloudburst, Inundate, Inundation, Flood, Downpour, Torrent

Floodwater, Flood lamp, Photoflood, Advancing, Floodlight, High, Oversupply, Outpouring, Rising, Swamp, Overflow, Torrent, Inundate, Inundation, Deluge

DELUGE vs FLOOD: DESCRIBE WORDS

Blizzard, Onslaught, Barrage, Flooding, Waterspout, Submerge, Soaker, Swamp, Overwhelm, Cloudburst, Inundate, Inundation, Flood, Downpour, Torrent

Floodplain, Storm, Floodwater, Photoflood, Advancing, Floodlight, High, Oversupply, Rising, Swamp, Overflow, Torrent, Inundate, Inundation, Deluge

DELUGE vs FLOOD: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

Work exposure on Fusible Plug and Deluge System.
Worst storm in memory, almost a biblical deluge.
River that broke out, after the general Deluge.
Spirits were not dampened by the deluge Oct.
Killer Deluge Police, But Few Substantial Clues Result.
New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld.
Black Sea Deluge May Have Helped Spread Farming.
The players celebrate in a deluge of champagne.
The deluge name is used to refer to the specific component in Deluge scripts.
Darn spell checker: me deluge not me deluge.

No, EZ Flood is an alternative to the NFIP flood policy.
Special Flood Hazard Areas were properly covered with flood insurance.
Simulation ofdesign flows, flood forecasting, flood plain analysis and hydrologicdesign.
Lenders require flood insurance for homes in designated flood zones.
Flood risk information from the FEMA Flood Map Center.
Tidal flood hazard area, in which the flood hazard area design flood elevation is governed by tidal flooding from the Atlantic Ocean.
The report contains flood profiles, as well as the Flood Boundary Floodway Map and the water surface elevation of the base flood.
Preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert flood ters or which may increase flood hazards in other areas.
Substitute Area of Special Flood Hazard, Floodplain, or Flood Prone Area for Flood Zone.
Flood Insurance: Fema Flood Map States This Is Zone X With No Flood Insurance Needed.

DELUGE vs FLOOD: QUESTIONS

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How to install landlandscape flood lights&spotlights?
Was the 1607 flood the greatest tidal flood in UK history?
Does a rare flood reduce the chances of another rare flood?
Why did God send the flood when he knew sin would continue after the flood?
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How does base flood elevation affect the cost of a flood policy?
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DELUGE AND FLOOD

DELUGE vs FLOOD: NOUN

DELUGE vs FLOOD: VERB

DELUGE vs FLOOD: INTRANSITIVE VERB

DELUGE vs FLOOD: TRANSITIVE VERB

DELUGE vs FLOOD: OTHER WORD TYPES

DELUGE vs FLOOD: RELATED WORDS

DELUGE vs FLOOD: DESCRIBE WORDS

DELUGE vs FLOOD: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

DELUGE vs FLOOD: QUESTIONS