Surge

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Surge, n. [L. surgere, surrectum, to raise, to rise; sub under + regere to direct: cf. OF. surgeon, sourgeon, fountain. See Regent, and cf. Insurrection, Sortie, Source.].

•  A spring; a fountain.  Ld. Berners.  [1913 Webster]
•  A large wave or billow; a great, rolling swell of water, produced generally by a high wind.  [1913 Webster]

  "He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed."  [1913 Webster]

  "He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar,
  Pursues the foaming surges to the shore."  [1913 Webster]
•  The motion of, or produced by, a great wave.  [1913 Webster]
•  The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.  [1913 Webster]

Surge, v. i. 

•  To swell; to rise hifg and roll.  [1913 Webster]

  "The surging waters like a mountain rise."  [1913 Webster]
•  To slip along a windlass.  [1913 Webster]

Surge, v. t. [Cf. F. surgir to cast anchor, to land. Cf. Surge, n.].

 To let go or slacken suddenly, as a rope; as, to surge a hawser or messenger; also, to slacken the rope about (a capstan).  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Surge, n. & v.
--n.
1 a sudden or impetuous onset (a surge of anger).
2 the swell of the waves at sea.
3 a heavy forward or upward motion.
4 a rapid increase in price, activity, etc. over a short period.
5 a sudden marked increase in voltage of an electric current.
--v.intr.
1 (of waves, the sea, etc.) rise and fall or move heavily forward.
2 (of a crowd etc.) move suddenly and powerfully forwards in large numbers.
3 (of an electric current etc.) increase suddenly.
4 Naut. (of a rope, chain, or windlass) slip back with a jerk.

Idiom

surge chamber (or tank) a chamber designed to neutralize sudden changes of pressure in a flow of liquid.

Etymology

OF sourdre sourge-, or sorgir f. Cat., f. L surgere rise

THESAURUS

Surge

Charybdis, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, aggrandizement, amplification, anabasis, appreciation, arise, ascend, ascension, ascent, assemble, augmentation, awake the dead, ballooning, be poised, billow, blast, blast the ear, bloating, blow out, boom, boost, bore, break, breaker, breakers, broadening, buildup, bulge, bunch, bunch up, centrifugate, centrifuge, chop, choppiness, chopping sea, clamber, climb, climbing, clot, cluster, collect, comb, comber, come together, come up, concourse, confluence, conflux, congregate, converge, copulate, couple, course, crash, crescendo, crosscurrent, crowd, curl upwards, current, dash, date, deafen, defluxion, development, din, dirty water, dizzy round, downflow, downpour, drain, drain out, drift, driftage, eagre, ebb, ebb and flow, eddy, edema, elevation, empty, enlargement, escalade, exhaust, expansion, extension, fill the air, find vent, flock together, flood, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out, flow together, flowing, fluency, flush, flux, forgather, fountain, fullness, fuse, gain, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, go up, gravity wave, greatening, ground swell, grow up, growth, gurge, gush, gush out, gyre, gyring up, heave, heavy sea, heavy swell, herd together, hike, hive, horde, huddle, increase, increment, inflation, inflow, intensity, issue, jet, jump, league, leap, levitate, levitation, lift, link, loom, lop, loudishness, loudness, maelstrom, make, mass, meet, merge, mill, mill run, millrace, mount, mounting, multiplication, muster, onrush, onward course, outflow, outpour, peak, peal, pirouette, play, popple, pour, pour out, productiveness, proliferation, pulsate, race, raise, rally, rally around, rat race, rattle the windows, rear, rear up, reel, regurgitate, rend the air, rend the ears, rendezvous, resound, riffle, ring, ripple, rise, rise and fall, rise up, rising, rock the sky, rocketing up, roll, roller, rough water, round, run, run out, rush, saltation, scend, sea, seethe, send, set, shooting up, sluice, sluice out, smash, snowballing, soaring, sonority, sonorousness, spate, spew, spew out, spin, spiral, spire, spit, split the eardrums, split the ears, spout, spout out, spray, spread, spring, spritz, spurt, spurtle, squirt, stand up, startle the echoes, stream, stun, surf, surge back, surge of sound, swarm, swarm up, sweep up, swell, swelling, swirl, takeoff, taking off, throng, thunder, tidal bore, tidal wave, tide, tide wave, toss, tower, trend, trough, tsunami, tumescence, turn, twirl, undercurrent, undertow, undulate, undulation, unite, up, upclimb, upcoming, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrow, upgrowth, upheave, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upsurgence, upswarm, upsweep, upswing, uptrend, upturn, upwind, vault, volume, vomit, vomit forth, vomit out, vortex, water flow, water wave, wave, wavelet, waxing, well, well out, wheel, whirl, whirligig, whirlpool, whirlwind, white horses, whitecaps, widening, zooming

ROGET THESAURUS

Surge

Assemblage

VB assemble, collect, muster, meet, unite, join, rejoin, cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate, congregate, conglomerate, concentrate, precipitate, center round, rendezvous, resort, come together, flock get together, pig together, forgather, huddle, reassemble, assemble, muster, bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together, collect, collocate, colligate, get, whip in, gather, hold a meeting, convene, convoke, convocate, rake up, dredge, heap, mass, pile, pack, put up, truss, cram, acervate, agglomerate, aggregate, compile, group, aggroup, concentrate, unite, collect into a focus, bring into a focus, amass, accumulate, collect in a dragnet, heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Ascent

VB ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise, go up, get up, work one's way up, start up, shoot up, go into orbit, float up, bubble up, aspire, climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount, shin, shinny, shinney, scale, scale the heights, raise, elevate, go aloft, fly aloft, tower, soar, take off, spring up, pop up, jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards, hover, spire, plane, swim, float, surge, leap.

Rotation

N rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration, turning about an axis, turning aound an axis, circulation, roll, circumrotation, circumvolution, circumgyration, volutation, circination, turbination, pirouette, convolution, verticity, whir, whirl, eddy, vortex, whirlpool, gurge, countercurrent, Maelstrom, Charybdis, Ixion, cyclone, tornado, whirlwind, dust devil, spin-out, axis, axis of rotation, swivel, pivot, pivot point, axle, spindle, pin, hinge, pole, arbor, bobbin, mandrel, axle shaft, gymbal, hub, hub of rotation, helix, helical motion, angular momentum, angular velocity, revolutions per minute, RPM, centrifugal force, surge, vertigo, dizzy round, coriolus force, carousel, merry-go-round, Ferris wheel, top, dreidel, teetotum, gyroscope, turntable, lazy suzan, screw, whirligig, rollingstone, water wheel, windmill, wheel, pulley wheel, roulette wheel, potter's wheel, pinwheel, gear, roller, flywheel, jack, caster, centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, bench centrifuge, refrigerated centrifuge, gas centrifuge, microfuge, drill, augur, oil rig, wagon wheel, wheel, tire, tyre, trochilics, whirling dervish, rotating, rotary, rotary, circumrotatory, trochilic, vertiginous, gyratory, vortical, vorticose, head over heels, round and round, like a horse in a mill.

River

N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.