Flood (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Computers and games 2 Film and television 3 Literature 4 Music 5 Other uses 6 See also

A flood or deluge is an overflow of water upon the land and may refer to:

• Great Flood (Biblical), as found in the Book of Genesis
• Deluge (mythology), mythic floods in general, involving Gilgamesh, and others
• Deluge (prehistoric), prehistoric great floods, some of which may have inspired the mythic floods above
• Regional floods; see: Category:Floods by country

Flood may also refer to:

[edit] Computers and games

• Flood (computer game), a 1990 computer game
• Flood (Halo), The Flood, an enemy race from the Halo video game series
• Flood (Apache project), a profile-driven HTTP load tester, an Apache HTTP Server project
• IRC flood, a method of disconnecting users from, or slowing down, an IRC server, like a denial-of-service attack (see next)
• Network flood, a denial-of-service attack
• Usenet flood, a large number of messages being posted by the same user on the same topic
• Flooding algorithm, a routing algorithm

[edit] Film and television

• Flood (film), a film based on the novel by Richard Doyle
• "Flood" (Young Ones episode), an episode of the British television series The Young Ones
• "Flooded" (Buffy episode), an episode of the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[edit] Literature

• Flood (novel), by British author Richard Doyle
• Halo: The Flood, a novel by William C. Dietz based on the video game Halo: Combat Evolved
• Flood, a 1985 novel by Andrew Vachss in the Burke series
• Flood: A Romance of Our Time, a 1964 novel by Robert Penn Warren
• The Flood, a 2004 novel by Maggie Gee

[edit] Music

Songs

• "Flood" (song), a song by Jars of Clay
• "Floods" (song), a song by Pantera
• "Floods" (Fightstar song)
• "The Flood" (song), a song by The Haunted
• "Flood" a song by Tool from Undertow
• "Flood I" and "Flood II", songs by The Sisters of Mercy from Floodland
• "The Flood", a song by The Soundtrack of Our Lives from Behind the Music

Albums

• Flood (They Might Be Giants album)
• Flood (Boris album)
• Flood (Herbie Hancock album)
• Mabool (Flood), an album by Orphaned Land

Performers

• The Flood (band), an Australian country & western band

Other

• Flood (producer) (Mark Ellis), British record producer
• The Flood (Stravinsky), a 1962 musical play by Igor Stravinsky

[edit] Other uses

• Flood (surname), a family name
• Flood (Church), a Christian church in San Diego, California, US
• Flood v. Kuhn, U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption, referred to as Flood.
• Flooding (Australian football), a tactic used in Australian rules football
• flooding (psychology), to expose trauma or phobia sufferers to their fears

[edit] See also

• Deluge (disambiguation)