Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (vanhentunut) floud
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- An overflow of a large amount of water (usually disastrous) from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.
- (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
- The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
- A floodlight.
- Menstrual discharge; menses.
- (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
Verbi
- To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
- To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
- (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.
- (Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.
- To bleed profusely, as after childbirth.
Esimerkit
- a covenant never to destroy the earth again by flood
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
- Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
- a flood of complaints
- There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
- The floor was flooded with beer.
- They flooded the room with sewage.
- The station's switchboard was flooded with listeners making complaints.
- Blackburn offered nothing going forward in the opening period and that continued after the break, encouraging City to flood forward.
- flood of people
- a flood of capital investment
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | flooded | Imperfekti | flooded |
| Partisiipin preesens | flooding | Monikko | floods |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | floods | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | floodeth (vanhahtava) |