| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To flood, overflow, flux or inundate.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To founder. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To dip, immerse, plunge, douse or dowse. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To drown or submerge. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To flow or gush.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Present participle conjugation of the verb deluge.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (deluge) | 1. Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid.[Wordnet]. 2. Charge someone with too many tasks.[Wordnet]. 3. Fill or cover completely, usually with water.[Wordnet]. 4. To overflow with water; to inundate; to overwhelm.[Websters]. 5. To overwhelm, as with a deluge; to cover; to overspread; to overpower; to submerge; to destroy; as, the northern nations deluged the Roman empire with their armies; the land is deluged with woe.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: deluging, deluged, deluges, deluger, delugers, delugingly and delugedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DELUGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DELUGING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Overflowing; inundating; overwhelming.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of deluge. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: deluge
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Black Sea deluge theory | The Black Sea deluge is a hypothesized prehistoric flood that occurred when the Black Sea rapidly filled, possibly forming the basis for some Great Flood myths. The theory made headlines when it surfaced in The New York Times December 1996. (references) | ||
| Deluge (mythology) | The story of a Great Flood sent by God or gods to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution is a widespread theme in myths. The stories of Noah and his ark in Genesis, Matsya in the Puranas scriptures of Hinduism, and Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh are among the most familiar versions of these myths. A large percentage of the world's cultures past and present have stories of a "great flood" that devastated earlier civilization. (references) | ||
| Deluge (prehistoric) | In the relatively recent geological past, several great floods are widely suspected to have occurred, with varying amounts of supporting evidence, usually as a result of the last Ice Age ending. (references) | ||
| Noachian deluge | (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Ogygian Deluge | The Ogygian Deluge is a theoretical flood from Greek mythology. (references) | ||
| The Deluge | This article is about the history of Poland. For other meanings of Deluge see Deluge. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: deluge
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| After us, the Deluge | Literature | "I care not what happens when I am dead and gone." So said Mdme. de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV. (1722--1764). Metternich, the Austrian statesman (1773--1859), is credited with the same: but probably he simply quoted the words of the French marchioness. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Core deluge system | Nuclear Energy & Physics | High flow system to rapidly flood the reactor core following loss of coolant. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Deluge collection pond | Aerospace | A facility at a launch site into which used to cool the flame deflector is flushed as the rocket begins its ascent. Also called a skimmer basin. (references) | |
| Deluge water spray system | Electrical Engineering | Adequate protection for turbine oil reseroirs can be provided by deluge water spray systems. Tank is protected by a ring of directional nozzles so located as to provide direct impingement on the top and sides of the tank. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Deluge water system | Mining | A method of fire control in which water is sprayed or sprinkled in sufficient volume to overwhelm the fire and put it out. (references) | |
| Ogygian Deluge | Literature | 1: Ogyges Deluge occurred more than 200 years before Deucalion's Flood. 2: A flood which overran a-part of Greece while Ogyges was king of Attica. There were two floods so called- one in Boeotia, when the lake Copais overflowed its banks; and another in Attica, when the whole territory was laid waste for two hundred years (B.C. 1764). 3: Varro tells us that the planet Venus underwent a great change in the reign of Ogyges (3 syl.). It changed its diameter, its colour, its figure, and its course. 4: The Irish name for a great black deer, probably the Mcgaceros Hiber nicus, or Irish elk, now extinct. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Pad deluge | Aerospace | Water sprayed upon certain launch pads during the launch of a rocket so as to reduce the temperatures of critical parts of the pad or the rocket. See underdeck spray. (references) | |
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