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FLOOD STAGE

Specialty Definition: FLOOD STAGE

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Hydrologic

A gage height at which a watercouse overtops its banks and begins to cause damage to any portion of the defined reach. Flood stage is usually higher than or equal to bankful stage. (references)
 The elevation at which overflow of the natural banks of a stream or body of water begins in the reach or area in which the elevation is measured. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: FLOOD STAGE

Specialty definitions using "FLOOD STAGE": Closed Basin Lake FloodingE-3, Flood Stage Report, E-5, Monthly Report of River and Flood conditionsflood plainThreshold Runoff. (references)

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Photo Album: FLOOD STAGE

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Submerged aquatic vegetation along the lower Atchafalaya. Whole trees frequently wash down the river at flood stage. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Looking at the outlet of the system with the river at flood stage. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Flood stage on West Fork River near West Union, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FLOOD STAGE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

flood stage

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FLOOD STAGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: floodgates.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-g-l-o-o-s-t"

-1 letter: floodgate, gatefolds.

-2 letters: flotages, footages, gatefold.

-3 letters: dotages, fagoted, floated, flotage, folates, footage, footled, footles, galoots, gelatos, gloated, goldest, legatos, seafood, solated, stooged, stooled, toledos.

-4 letters: aglets, aldose, dagoes, defats, defogs, delfts, deltas, desalt, dosage, dotage, fadges, fagots, fasted, festal, floats, floods, flotas, foaled, fodgel, foetal, folate, fooled, footed, footle, galoot, gaoled, gasted, gelato.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FLOOD STAGE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 4C 4F 4F 44      53 54 41 47 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001100 01001111 01001111 01000100 00100000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#76 &#79 &#79 &#68 &#32 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004C 004F 004F 0044      0053 0054 0041 0047 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

404649493825354354139

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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