Synonyms of the word

flood

• n. A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall…
• n. (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt…
• n. The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
• n. A floodlight.
• n. Menstrual discharge; menses.
• n. (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
• v. To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
• v. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
• v. (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot…
• v. (Internet, computing) To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.

alluvion

• n. (law) The increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river.

batch

• n. A bank; a sandbank.
• n. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
• n. (obsolete) The process of baking.
• n. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.
• n. A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
• n. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
• n. (computing) A set of data to be processed with one execution of a program.
• n. (Britain, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
• n. (Philippines) A graduating class.
• v. To aggregate things together into a batch.
• v. (computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.
• adj. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.
• v. (informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

deal

• n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
• n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
• v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
• v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
• v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
• v. (baseball) To pitch.
• v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
• v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
• v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
• v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
• v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
• n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
• n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
• n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
• n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
• n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
• n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
• n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
• n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
• n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
• n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
• adj. Made of deal.

deluge

• n. A great flood or rain.
• n. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
• n. (Military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature…
• v. (transitive) To flood with water.
• v. (transitive) To overwhelm.

fill

• v. (transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
• v. (transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
• v. To enter (something), making it full.
• v. (intransitive) To become full.
• v. (intransitive) To become pervaded with something.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
• v. (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
• v. (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
• n. (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
• n. An amount that fills a container.
• n. The filling of a container or area.
• n. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
• n. (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill…
• n. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be…
• n. (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a…
• n. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

filling

• adj. Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach.
• n. Anything that is used to fill something.
• n. The contents of a pie, etc.
• n. (dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
• n. The woof in woven fabrics.
• n. Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
• v. present participle of fill.

flock

• n. A large number of birds, especially those gathered together for the purpose of migration.
• n. A large number of animals, especially sheep or goats kept together.
• n. Those served by a particular pastor or shepherd.
• n. A large number of people.
• v. (intransitive) To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To flock to; to crowd.
• v. To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles.
• n. Coarse tufts of wool or cotton used in bedding.
• n. A lock of wool or hair.
• n. Very fine sifted woollen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, formerly used as a coating…
• v. (transitive) To coat a surface with dense fibers or particles.

floodlight

• n. A projector of a bright beam of light for use in theatres and studios; a flood.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Powerful artificial illumination with a broad beam, especially in a series of…
• v. (transitive) To enlighten or illuminate with floodlight(s).

flow

• n. A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts.
• n. The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
• n. (mathematics) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of…
• n. The rising movement of the tide.
• n. Smoothness or continuity.
• n. The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
• n. (psychology) A mental state characterized by concentration, focus and enjoyment of a given task.
• n. The emission of blood during menstruation.
• n. (rap music slang) The ability to skilfully rap along to a beat.
• v. (intransitive) To move as a fluid from one position to another.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed; to issue forth.
• v. (intransitive) To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
• v. (intransitive) To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
• v. (intransitive) To hang loosely and wave.
• v. (intransitive) To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb.
• v. (transitive, computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated…
• v. (transitive) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
• v. (transitive) To cover with varnish.
• v. (intransitive) To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.

flowage

• n. A flowing or overflowing of liquid.

furnish

• n. Material used to create an engineered product.
• v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

glut

• n. an excess, too much.
• n. That which is swallowed.
• n. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
• n. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
• n. (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
• n. (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
• n. (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
• n. A block used for a fulcrum.
• n. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
• v. To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.
• v. To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

hatful

• n. The amount that will fit into a hat.
• n. (soccer, Britain) A large number (usually talking about goalscoring chances).

heap

• n. A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
• n. A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
• n. A great number or large quantity of things.
• n. (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
• n. (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
• n. (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
• n. (colloquial) A lot, a large amount.
• v. (transitive) To pile in a heap.
• v. (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
• v. (transitive) To supply in great quantity.

inundate

• v. To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
• v. To overwhelm.

inundation

• n. The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of…
• n. (metaphorical) An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx.

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

lot

• n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
• n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
• n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
• n. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
• n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
• n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
• n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without…
• n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
• n. A prize in a lottery.
• n. Allotment; lottery.
• n. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
• n. An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32…
• v. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
• v. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

mass

• n. (physical) Matter, material.
• n. A large quantity; a sum.
• n. (quantity) Large in number.
• v. (transitive) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses;…
• v. (intransitive) To have a certain mass.
• adj. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
• adj. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.
• n. (Christianity) The Eucharist, now especially in Roman Catholicism.
• n. (Christianity) Celebration of the Eucharist.
• n. (Christianity, usually as the Mass) The sacrament of the Eucharist.
• n. A musical setting of parts of the mass.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To celebrate mass.

mess

• n. (obsolete) Mass; a church service.
• n. (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one…
• n. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel…
• n. A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
• n. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
• v. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
• v. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
• v. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
• v. (transitive) To supply with a mess.
• n. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding;…
• n. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
• n. (euphemistic) Excrement.
• v. (transitive) To make a mess of.
• v. (transitive) To throw into confusion.
• v. (intransitive) To interfere.

mickle

• n. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
• n. (Scotland) A small amount.
• n. (obsolete) Important or great people as a class.
• n. (obsolete) Greatness, largeness, stature.
• pron. (now chiefly Scotland) A large amount or great extent.
• adv. (now chiefly Scotland) To a great extent.
• adv. (obsolete) Often, frequently.

mint

• v. (intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt; take aim.
• v. (transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try…
• v. (intransitive, chiefly Scotland) To hint; suggest; insinuate.
• n. (provincial, Northern England, Scotland) Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
• n. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
• n. (informal) A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
• n. (figuratively) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
• v. (transitive) To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
• v. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
• adj. (of condition) as new.
• adj. (numismatics) In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
• adj. (philately) Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very good.
• n. Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
• n. The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
• n. Any plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae.
• n. A green colour, like that of mint.
• n. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
• adj. Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.

muckle

• n. (chiefly Scotland) A great amount.
• adj. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Large, massive.
• adj. (archaic outside Northumbria and Scotland) Much.
• v. (US, dialectal) To latch onto something with the mouth.
• v. (rare) To talk big; to exaggerate.

outpouring

• n. The sudden flowing of a large amount of something.

overflow

• n. The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.
• n. Outlet for escape of excess material.
• n. (computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.
• v. (transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container).
• v. (transitive) To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
• v. (transitive) To cause an overflow.
• v. (intransitive) To flow over the edge of a container.
• v. (intransitive) To exceed limits or capacity.
• v. (intransitive) To be superabundant; to abound.

oversupply

• v. To supply more than is needed.
• n. An excessive supply.

peck

• v. To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird) or similar instrument.
• v. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
• v. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick…
• v. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
• v. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
• v. To type by searching for each key individually.
• v. (rare) To type in general.
• v. To kiss briefly.
• n. An act of pecking.
• n. A small kiss.
• n. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.
• n. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
• v. (regional) To throw.
• v. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of…
• n. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
• n. Misspelling of pec.

photoflood

• n. (photography) A lamp that produces a broad beam of continuous bright light; used to illuminate a photographic…

pile

• n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
• n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
• n. A mass formed in layers.
• n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
• n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
• n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
• n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
• n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
• n. (figuratively) A list or league.
• v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
• v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
• v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
• v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
• v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
• n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
• n. The head of an arrow or spear.
• n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
• v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
• n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
• n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
• n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
• n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

plenty

• n. A more than adequate amount.
• pron. More than enough.
• adv. More than sufficiently.
• adv. (colloquial) Used as an intensifier, very.
• adj. (obsolete) plentiful.

pot

• n. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
• n. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly.
• n. (slang) Ruin or deterioration.
• n. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
• n. (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail…
• n. (gambling) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively)…
• n. (Britain, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
• n. (sports) The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket in cue sports such as billiards.
• n. (slang) Clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.
• n. (slang) Clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.
• n. (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
• n. (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
• v. To put (something) into a pot.
• v. To preserve by bottling or canning.
• v. (cue sports) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
• v. (cue sports) To be capable of being potted.
• v. (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
• v. (Britain) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
• v. (obsolete, dialect, Britain) To tipple; to drink.
• v. (transitive) To drain.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during…
• v. (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
• n. (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to…
• n. (role-playing games) Clipping of potion.

provide

• v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
• v. To act to prepare for something.
• v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
• v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
• v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
• v. To make possible or attainable.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
• v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

raft

• n. A flat structure made of planks, barrels etc., that floats on water, and is used for transport, emergencies…
• n. A flat-bottomed inflatable craft for floating or drifting on water.
• n. A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals.
• n. (US) A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river.
• v. (transitive) to convey on a raft.
• v. (transitive) to make into a raft.
• v. (intransitive) to travel by raft.
• n. A large (but unspecified) number, a lot.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of reave.

render

• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
• v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
• v. (transitive) To pass down.
• v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
• v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
• v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
• v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
• v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
• v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
• v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
• v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
• v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
• v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
• v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
• v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
• n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
• n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
• n. (obsolete) A surrender.
• n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
• n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
• n. One who rends.

sight

• n. (in the singular) The ability to see.
• n. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
• n. Something seen.
• n. Something worth seeing; a spectacle.
• n. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
• n. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
• n. (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
• n. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame…
• n. (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
• n. Mental view; opinion; judgment.
• v. (transitive) To register visually.
• v. (transitive) To get sight of (something).
• v. (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction…
• v. (transitive) To take aim at.

slew

• n. (US) A large amount.
• n. The act, or process of slaying.
• n. A device used for slaying.
• n. A change of position.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
• v. (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
• v. (intransitive) To pivot.
• v. (intransitive) To skid.
• v. (transitive, rail transport) to move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
• v. simple past tense of slay.
• n. A wet place; a river inlet.

spate

• n. A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
• n. A sudden rush or increase.

stack

• n. (heading) A pile.
• n. A smokestack.
• n. (heading) In digital computing.
• n. (mathematics) A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
• n. (geology) A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
• n. (library) Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
• n. (figuratively) A large amount of an object.
• n. (military) A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
• n. (poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.
• n. (heading) In architecture.
• n. (Australia, slang) A fall or crash, a prang.
• n. (bodybuilding) A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
• v. (transitive) To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
• v. (transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
• v. (transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
• v. (transitive) To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
• v. (transitive, US, Australia, slang) To crash; to fall.

stream

• n. A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
• n. A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
• n. Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
• n. (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
• n. (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
• n. (figuratively) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
• n. (Britain, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
• v. (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
• v. To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
• v. (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used…

supply

• v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
• v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
• v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
• n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
• n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
• n. (in the plural) provisions.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
• n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
• adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

swamp

• n. A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth…
• n. A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically…
• v. To drench or fill with water.
• v. To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
• v. (figuratively) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

tide

• n. The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun…
• n. A stream, current or flood.
• n. (chronology, obsolete, except in liturgy) Time, notably anniversary, period or season linked to an ecclesiastical…
• n. (regional, archaic) A time.
• n. (regional, archaic) A point or period of time identified or described by a qualifier (found in compounds).
• n. (mining) The period of twelve hours.
• n. Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
• n. Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
• n. (obsolete) Violent confluence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
• v. (intransitive) To pour a tide or flood.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To happen, occur.

torrent

• n. A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
• n. (figuratively) A large amount or stream of something.
• adj. Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
• n. (Internet, file sharing) A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent.
• v. (Internet slang, transitive) To download in a torrent.

wad

• n. An amorphous, compact mass.
• n. A substantial pile (normally of money).
• n. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
• n. (slang) A sandwich.
• n. (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
• n. (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various…
• v. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
• v. (Ulster) To wager.
• v. To insert or force a wad into.
• v. To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.