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(law) The increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river.
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(hydrology) Movement of soil during a flood, or during a change in the course of a river, especially when a resulting change of land ownership is involved
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The water level at which a dam's turbines are no longer able to generate power.
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The outward opening of a river, valley, or strait.
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(hydrology) A stream of water (either natural or artificial) that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel.
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Describing the relatively calm upper reaches of a lowland stream
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(civil engineering) A method for managing storm water runoff.
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A flooded river (or its riverbed), especially one running down from a mountain.
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The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
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A map showing how an area would look in case of flooding, or rising sea levels.
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Alternative spelling of floodplain [(geography) An alluvial plain adjacent to a river formed by flooding during periods of high rain.]
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A swimming pool that is filled by water at high tide and remains filled at low tide.
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The elevation at which water overflows the natural banks of a river or other body of water in a given portion of the body of water.
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(construction) the procedure in which a controlled amount of water is temporarily retained over a horizontal surface to determine the effectiveness of the waterproofing system.
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Alternative form of floodwater [The water of a flood.]
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The flow of a river in flood or of floodwater
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A low-lying area, especially on either side of a river, which regularly floods.
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Alternative form of flood map [A map showing how an area would look in case of flooding, or rising sea levels.]
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A mark indicating the height reached by the waters in a previous flood.
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(geography) An alluvial plain adjacent to a river formed by flooding during periods of high rain.
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A watershed that operates at a time of flooding
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A time (often an annual season) during which an area is flooded; the season when a river floods its banks.
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A current of air that flows forward
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A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
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(poetic) A small stream, especially one flowing into the sea.
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(colloquial) The Horizontal Falls, an unusual natural phenomenon on the coast of the Kimberley region in Western Australia, where tidal flows cause waterfalls on the ebb and flow of each tide.
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Any waterfall, the descending water of which maintains contact with bedrock most of the time.
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(architecture) A low basin in the center of a household atrium, into which rainwater flowed down from the roof through the compluvium.
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A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
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(UK dialectal) A violent flow or rush of water.
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Something transient or ephemeral.
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The stream-line curve of least resistance
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A tsunami caused by an avalanche or landslide falling into an enclosed body of water, causing very high water levels, that washes onto land.
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Describing the area, next to a river, that is frequently flooded
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A turbulent section of a body of water, caused by strong currents passing over submerged ridges.
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The flow of water and sediment over the crest of a beach that does not directly return to the water body.
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The largest volume of water discharged from a stream or river.
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(obsolete) Alternative form of pororoca [A tidal flood, especially at the mouth of the Amazon River, that rushes with a roaring noise into the river and proceeds in one or more waves that often present a very abrupt front of considerable height.]
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the gradual loss of water from a river, lake, etc. to leave permanent dry land
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Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.
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The runoff of surface water through a channel.
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Flooding that is caused by something other than rain, such as a tidal wave or the failure of a dam.
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A violent flow, as of water, lava, etc.; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
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(intransitive, of the tide) To move from low tide to high tide.
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