flood

«flood» in Mova's school dictionary: a large amount of water covering land that is usually dry — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a flood, floods); verb (flood, floods, flooded, flooding)

meaning for a pupil

1) A flood is a large amount of water covering land that is usually dry. tree →

2) To flood is to cover a place with water, or to overflow. tree →

3) A flood of something is a very large amount arriving at once, like a flood of letters. tree →

4) To flood in is to arrive in large numbers. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and safety, floods come from heavy rain, rivers bursting their banks, storms at sea or melting snow. Flood safety: move to higher ground, never walk, swim, cycle or drive through flood water (it can be deep, fast, dirty and hide dangers), and listen to warnings. In stories and myths, great floods appear in many cultures. Phrases: flash flood, flood warning, flood water, in floods of tears, flood in, the floodgates.

examples

• The river burst its banks and flooded the town. tree →
• Never walk through flood water. tree →
• A flash flood came after the storm. tree →
• The bathroom flooded when the bath overflowed. tree →
• Letters flooded in after the TV show. tree →
• She was in floods of tears. tree →
• The town built walls to stop floods. tree →
• Prince Ivan burst into a flood of bitter tears, and rode on still farther. tree →

note

Pronounced "flud", rhyming with mud — not like "food". Only fifteen centimetres (six inches) of fast water can knock an adult over. Flood water can carry germs, so wash hands after touching it.

In the corpora

• The news on TV, the radio and phones shows real things: wars, earthquakes, floods, fires and accidents.
• Fake photos of sharks swimming in flooded streets have spread after many hurricanes; they were edited or taken from somewhere else.
• Wetlands soak up flood water like giant sponges and let it out slowly, and reed roots trap mud and clean the water.
• Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months.
• Beaver dams slow floods, clean water and make ponds full of life, though some farmers worry about flooded fields.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «flood» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.