FLOOD vs SWAMP: NOUN
- A floodlight
- A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- 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.
- A gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.
- A fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.
- , the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.
- Menstrual disharge; menses.
- A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; ; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance
- 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.
- The main ocean; main sea.
- A large, broad body of water; main tide.
- In the Bible, the covering of the earth with water that occurred during the time of Noah.
- A floodlight, specifically a unit that produces a beam of intense light.
- 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.
- An overwhelming number or amount
- 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 type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.
- See Pussy willow, under Pussy.
- A common North American sparrow (Melospiza Georgiana, or M. palustris), closely resembling the song sparrow. It lives in low, swampy places.
- A small North American tree of the genus Magnolia (M. glauca) with aromatic leaves and fragrant creamy-white blossoms; -- called also sweet bay.
- The chewink.
- Any one of several Australian game birds of the genera Synoicus and Excalfatoria, allied to the European partridges.
- (Min.), bog ore; limonite.
- A name given to several kinds of oak which grow in swampy places, as swamp Spanish oak (Quercus palustris), swamp white oak (Q. bicolor), swamp post oak (Q. lyrata).
- Red maple. See Maple.
- A shrub (Kalmia glauca) having small leaves with the lower surface glaucous.
- See Prairie itch, under Prairie.
- A hook and chain used by lumbermen in handling logs. Cf. Cant hook.
- An American shrub (Azalea viscosa syn. Rhododendron viscosa or Rhododendron viscosum) growing in swampy places, with fragrant flowers of a white color, or white tinged with rose; -- called also swamp pink and white swamp honeysuckle.
- The European purple gallinule.
- An Asiatic deer (Rucervus Duvaucelli) of India.
- Skunk cabbage.
- See Redwing (b).
- Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.
- A shallow lake.
- In coal-mining, a local depression in a coal-bed, in which water may collect.
- A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
- A lowland region saturated with water.
- An area of low-lying land that is frequently flooded, especially one dominated by woody plants.
- A situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- Low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
FLOOD vs SWAMP: VERB
- To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.
- To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot easily be dealt with.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- To overflow.
- Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- Become filled to overflowing
- Supply with an excess of
- Cover with liquid, usually water
- To overwhelm; to make too busy or overrun capacity.
- To drench or fill with water.
- Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
FLOOD vs SWAMP: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To pour forth; overflow.
- To become inundated or submerged.
- To put too much fuel into the carburetor of (an engine), resulting in unsuccessful ignition.
- To overwhelm in large numbers.
- To move into or fill in large numbers or amounts.
- To cover or submerge with water; inundate.
- To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
- To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.
- To become full of water or sink.
- To fill (a ship or boat) with water to the point of sinking it.
- To inundate or burden; overwhelm.
- To drench in or cover with or as if with water.
FLOOD vs SWAMP: TRANSITIVE VERB
- 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.
- Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.
- To plunge or sink into a swamp.
FLOOD vs SWAMP: OTHER WORD TYPES
- As with a liquid
- Fill quickly beyond capacity
- -Shakespeare
- Filling to overflowing
- The act of flooding
- Used in photography
- The occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- See splash, 4.
- 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.
- As with a liquid
- Fill quickly beyond capacity
- To become filled with water and sink, as a boat; founder; hence, to be ruined; be wrecked.
- To sink or stick in a swamp; hence, to be plunged in inextricable difficulties.
- To cut out (a road) into a forest. See swamper.
- Nautical, to overset, sink, or cause to become filled, as a boat, in water; whelm.
- To plunge into inextricable difficulties; overwhelm; ruin; hence, to outbalance; exceed largely in numbers.
- To plunge, whelm, or sink in a swamp, or as in a swamp.
- In lumbering, to clear (the ground) of under-brush, fallen trees, and other obstructions preparatory to constructing a logging-road or opening out a gutter-road.
- Thin; slender; lean.
FLOOD vs SWAMP: RELATED WORDS
- Floodwater, Flood lamp, Photoflood, Advancing, Floodlight, High, Oversupply, Outpouring, Rising, Swamp, Overflow, Torrent, Inundate, Inundation, Deluge
- Bogs, Marshlands, Marshland, Pond, Marshes, Bayou, Marshy, Marsh, Cesspool, Bog, Swampy, Drench, Deluge, Flood, Inundate
FLOOD vs SWAMP: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Floodplain, Storm, Floodwater, Photoflood, Advancing, Floodlight, High, Oversupply, Rising, Swamp, Overflow, Torrent, Inundate, Inundation, Deluge
- Wetland, Wetlands, Slough, Marshland, Pond, Bayou, Marshy, Marsh, Cesspool, Bog, Swampy, Drench, Deluge, Flood, Inundate
FLOOD vs SWAMP: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- 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.
- Property is generally comprised of slash pine, with scattered cypress, red maple, laurel oak, swamp tupelo, and swamp bay.
- It is also important to note that they are located directly north of a swamp which spawns swamp toads.
- Swamp Quest which includes games, crafts, swamp snacks and a photo opportunity with several characters from the show!
- The Swamp Korean Necromancers Basically Koreans who live in a swamp and use blood sorceries to control undead.
- Public Access: Lawrence Swamp Conservation Area, Amherst; Great Swamp WMA, Whately.
- Swamp Guide: Complete several dozen missions in the Swamp area.
- And here they are: Happy happy boom boom swamp swamp swamp!
- The forests in this national park area consist of swamp forest, peat swamp, freshwater swamp forest, tropical mapah forest, mangrove forest, and mountain forests.
- Hayes St is near Cedar Swamp, Cedar Swamp and Cedar Swamp.
- Any SOP developed for SWAMP must be distributed to appropriate SWAMP workgroups and SWAMP IQ for internal review.
FLOOD vs SWAMP: QUESTIONS
- Which flood insurance company underwrites your policy?
- Does Lexington County offer flood insurance discounts?
- 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?
- How old are the flood basalts in the Columbia River flood basin?
- How does base flood elevation affect the cost of a flood policy?
- What does the National Flood Forum do for flood action groups?
- Are the EA flood zones suitable for a flood risk assessment?
- Is alligator hunting on Swamp People real or scripted?
- What happened on the Swamp Rabbit Trail in Greenville?
- Is lycopod reproductive biology related to swamp environments?
- What is the establishment swamp of Tibetan Buddhists?
- Is coastal Upland Swamp an endangered ecological community?
- Where is the Audubon Society Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary?
- What is the Hockomock Swamp wildlife management area?
- Does Dreamcast Gauntlet Legends have acid swamp music?
- What is the Mallory Swamp wildlife management area?
- What animals live in Fivebough Swamp and Tuckerbil Swamp?