Flood : (noun)
1: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto
normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual
inundations" [syn: inundation, deluge, alluvion]
2: an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a
torrent of abuse" [syn: inundation, deluge, torrent]
3: light that is a source of artificial illumination having a
broad beam; used in photography [syn: floodlight, flood
lamp, photoflood]
4: a large flow [syn: overflow, outpouring]
5: the act of flooding; filling to overflowing [syn: flowage]
6: the inward flow of the tide; "a tide in the affairs of men
which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"
-Shakespeare
(verb)
1: fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the
basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images
flooded his mind" [syn: deluge, inundate, swamp]
2: cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded
the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her
eyes"
3: supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis
shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the
Orient" [syn: oversupply, glut]
4: become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during
the heavy rains"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Flood : \Flood\, n. [OE. flod a flowing, stream, flood, AS.
fl[=o]d; akin to D. vloed, OS. fl[=o]d, OHG. fluot, G. flut,
Icel. fl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. fl[=o]dus; from the
root of E. flow. [root]80. See Flow, v. i.]
1. 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.
A covenant never to destroy The earth again by
flood. --Milton.
2. The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise
of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood;
high flood.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken
at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak.
3. A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood
of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely
diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of
bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
4. Menstrual disharge; menses. --Harvey.
Flood anchor (Naut.), the anchor by which a ship is held
while the tide is rising.
Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept
away by a flood.
Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or
releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.
Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood,
rises; high-water mark.
Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide.
The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Flood : \Flood\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flooded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flooding.]
1. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river
flooded the valley.
2. To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with
water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for
irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as,
to flood a country with a depreciated currency.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Flood :
On a real-time network (whether at the level of
TCP/IP, or at the level of, say, IRC), to send a huge
amount of data to another user (or a group of users, in a
channel) in an attempt to annoy him, lock his terminal, or to
overflow his network buffer and thus lose his network
connection.
The basic principles of flooding are that you should have
better network bandwidth than the person you're trying to
flood, and that what you do to flood them (e.g., generate ping
requests) should be *less* resource-expensive for your machine
to produce than for the victim's machine to deal with. There
is also the corrolary that you should avoid being caught.
Failure to follow these principles regularly produces
hilarious results, e.g., an IRC user flooding himself off the
network while his intended victim is unharmed, the attacker's
flood attempt being detected, and him being banned from the
network in semi-perpetuity.
See also pingflood, clonebot and botwar.
[{Jargon File]
(1997-04-07)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Flood : v. [common] 1. To overwhelm a network channel with
mechanically-generated traffic; especially used of IP, TCP/IP, UDP, or
ICMP denial-of-service attacks. 2. To dump large amounts of text onto an
IRC channel. This is especially rude when the text is uninteresting
and the other users are trying to carry on a serious conversation. Also
used in a similar sense on Usenet. 3. [Usenet] To post an unusually
large number or volume of files on a related topic.
Based on Jargon File : [Hackers_Dictionary]:
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Flood : an event recorded in Gen. 7 and 8. (See DELUGE.) In
Josh. 24:2, 3, 14, 15, the word "flood" (R.V., "river") means
the river Euphrates. In Ps. 66:6, this word refers to the river
Jordan.
Based on Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [Hackers_Dictionary]:
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