flood vs vortex

flood

noun
  • A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with. 

  • An overflow (usually disastrous) of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water. 

  • The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb. 

  • A floodlight. 

  • Menstrual discharge; menses. 

verb
  • To bleed profusely, as after childbirth. 

  • To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with. 

  • To cover or partly fill as if by a flood. 

  • To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall. 

  • To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation. 

vortex

noun
  • Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current. 

  • Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre. 

  • A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column. 

  • A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it. 

  • Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. 

verb
  • To mix using a vortex mixer 

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