Torrent
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A large amount of something, especially water or rain; a heavy stream or flow. A set of files obtainable through a peer-to-peer network, especially BitTorrent.
Example sentence: You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
Flood
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To overflow.To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.
Example sentence: There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.