meaning of flood

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.
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.
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.
5. To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
6. 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.
7. 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 youre 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 victims 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 attackers flood attempt being detected, and him being banned from the network in semi-perpetuity. See also pingflood, clonebot and botwar. [Jargon File]
8. a large flow

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