flooding

n. inundation, deluge, overflow of water

v. inundate; brim over, overflow; submerge, engulf; gush, surge; overwhelm

A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge. In the sense of "flowing water", the word is applied to the inflow of the tide, as opposed to the outflow or "ebb".It is usually due to the volume of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, exceeding the total capacity of the body, and as a result some of the water flows or sits outside of the normal perimeter of the body. It can also occur in rivers, when the strength of the river is so high it flows right out of the river channel , usually at corners or meanders. These of course, are not applicable in such instances as sea flooding.
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Flooding /flood·ing/ a form of desensitization for treating phobias and anxieties by repeated exposure to highly distressing stimuli until the lack [more]Flooding - Community and Resources

Noun
1. a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
(synonym) implosion therapy
(hypernym) behavior therapy, behavior modification
(derivation) deluge, flood, inundate, swamp
Adjective
1. overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks"
(synonym) in flood(p), overflowing, swollen
(similar) high

Noun
1. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"
(synonym) inundation, deluge, alluvion
(hypernym) geological phenomenon
(hyponym) debacle
2. an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse"
(synonym) inundation, deluge, torrent
(hypernym) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
(derivation) oversupply, glut
3. light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
(synonym) floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood
(hypernym) light, light source
(part-holonym) photographic equipment
4. a large flow
(synonym) overflow, outpouring
(hypernym) flow, stream
(hyponym) effusion
5. the act of flooding; filling to overflowing
(synonym) flowage
(hypernym) filling
6. the inward flow of the tide; "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare
(hypernym) flow, flowing
(part-holonym) flood tide, rising tide
Verb
1. fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid; "the basement was inundated after the storm"; "The images flooded his mind"
(synonym) deluge, inundate, swamp
(hypernym) fill, fill up, make full
(see-also) flood in
(derivation) flowage
2. cover with liquid, usually water; "The swollen river flooded the village"; "The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes"
(hypernym) cover, spread over
(hyponym) flow
(see-also) overwhelm, deluge, flood out
(derivation) inundation, deluge, alluvion
3. supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"
(synonym) oversupply, glut
(hypernym) supply, provide, render, furnish
(derivation) inundation, deluge, torrent
4. become filled to overflowing; "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
(hypernym) fill, fill up
(derivation) flowage

<chat> 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 you're 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 victim's 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 attacker's flood attempt being detected, and him being banned from the network in semi-perpetuity.
See also pingflood, clonebot and botwar.
[Jargon File]
(1997-04-07)