flood overflow outpouring | a large flow |
flood control | (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods |
distribution channel channel | a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors, possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores |
flood flowage | the act of flooding, filling to overflowing |
channel catfish channel cat Ictalurus punctatus | freshwater food fish common throughout central United States |
blue catfish blue cat blue channel catfish blue channel cat | a large catfish of the Mississippi valley |
red drum channel bass redfish Sciaenops ocellatus | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico |
channel | a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through, the fields were crossed with irrigation channels, gutters carried off the rainwater into a series of channels under the street |
channel television channel TV channel | a television station and its programs, a satellite TV channel, surfing through the channels, they offer more than one hundred channels |
chunnel Channel Tunnel | the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel |
flood floodlight flood lamp photoflood | light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam, used in photography |
duct epithelial duct canal channel | a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance, the tear duct was obstructed, the alimentary canal, poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs |
channel transmission channel | a path over which electrical signals can pass, a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company |
channel communication channel line | (often plural) a means of communication or access, it must go through official channels, lines of communication were set up between the two firms |
back channel | an alternative to the regular channels of communication that is used when agreements must be made secretly (especially in diplomacy or government), they negotiated via a back channel |
channels | official routes of communication, you have to go through channels |
flood tide flood rising tide | the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide), a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune -Shakespeare |
climax flood tide | the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding, the climax of the artist's career, in the flood tide of his success |
Channel Islands National Park | a national park in California featuring sea birds and marine life |
Channel Island | any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France |
Bristol Channel | an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England |
channel | a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels, the ship went aground in the channel |
English Channel | an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain |
floodplain flood plain | a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding |
Mozambique Channel | an arm of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and southeastern Africa |
North Channel | a strait between Northern Ireland and Scotland that connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea |
flood inundation deluge alluvion | the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land, plains fertilized by annual inundations |
flash flood flashflood | a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration |
Noah's flood Noachian deluge Noah and the Flood the Flood | (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 |
flood inundation deluge torrent | an overwhelming number or amount, a flood of requests, a torrent of abuse |
groove channel | a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) |
channel capacity | the maximum data rate that can be attained over a given channel |
flood | cover with liquid, usually water, The swollen river flooded the village, The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes |
flood | become filled to overflowing, Our basement flooded during the heavy rains |
surf channel-surf | switch channels, on television |
overwhelm deluge flood out | charge someone with too many tasks |
transmit transfer transport channel channelize channelise | send from one person or place to another, transmit a message |
deluge flood inundate swamp | fill quickly beyond capacity, as with a liquid, the basement was inundated after the storm, The images flooded his mind |
channel canalize canalise | direct the flow of, channel information towards a broad audience |
flood in | arrive in great numbers |
impart conduct transmit convey carry channel | transmit or serve as the medium for transmission, Sound carries well over water, The airwaves carry the sound, Many metals conduct heat |
flood oversupply glut | supply with an excess of, flood the market with tennis shoes, Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient |
stereophonic stereo two-channel | designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels |
mono monophonic single-channel | designating sound transmission or recording or reproduction over a single channel |
back-channel | via a back channel, the failure of back-channel negotiations |