the Flood
大洪水
Flood n.
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.
A covenant never to destroy
The earth again by flood. --Milton.
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.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. --Shak.
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.
Flood anchor Naut. , the anchor by which a ship is held while the tide is rising.
Flood fence, a fence so secured that it will not be swept away by a flood.
Flood gate, a gate for shutting out, admitting, or releasing, a body of water; a tide gate.
Flood mark, the mark or line to which the tide, or a flood, rises; high-water mark.
Flood tide, the rising tide; -- opposed to ebb tide.
The Flood, the deluge in the days of Noah.