Flood 12′ Full Trax Aqua Paddle Board | SUP | BOTE

Twelve or 12 may refer to:

• 12 (number)
• December, the twelfth and final month of the year
• Dozen, a group of twelve.

Aqua is the Latin word for water. As such, it is often used in many words which relate to water, such as aquatic life. In English, it may also refer to:

A flood is an overflow of water (or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are of significant concern in agriculture, civil engineering and public health. Human changes to the environment often increase the intensity and frequency of flooding. Examples for human changes are land use changes such as deforestation and removal of wetlands, changes in waterway course or flood controls such as with levees. Global environmental issues also influence causes of floods, namely climate change which causes an intensification of the water cycle and sea level rise.^: 1517 For example, climate change makes extreme weather events more frequent and stronger. This leads to more intense floods and increased flood risk.

Natural types of floods include river flooding, groundwater flooding coastal flooding and urban flooding sometimes known as flash flooding. Tidal flooding may include elements of both river and coastal flooding processes in estuary areas. There is also the intentional flooding of land that would otherwise remain dry. This may take place for agricultural, military, or river-management purposes. For example, agricultural flooding may occur in preparing paddy fields for the growing of semi-aquatic rice in many countries.

Flooding may occur as an overflow of water from water bodies, such as a river, lake, sea or ocean. In these cases, the water overtops or breaks levees, resulting in some of that water escaping its usual boundaries. Flooding may also occur due to an accumulation of rainwater on saturated ground. This is called an areal flood. The size of a lake or other body of water naturally varies with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt. Those changes in size are however not considered a flood unless they flood property or drown domestic animals.

Floods can also occur in rivers when the flow rate exceeds the capacity of the river channel, particularly at bends or meanders in the waterway. Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if these buildings are in the natural flood plains of rivers. People could avoid riverine flood damage by moving away from rivers. However, people in many countries have traditionally lived and worked by rivers because the land is usually flat and fertile. Also, the rivers provide easy travel and access to commerce and industry.

Flooding can damage property and also lead to secondary impacts. These include in the short term an increased spread of waterborne diseases and vector-bourne disesases, for example those diseases transmitted by mosquitos. Flooding can also lead to long-term displacement of residents. Floods are an area of study of hydrology and hydraulic engineering.

A large amount of the world's population lives in close proximity to major coastlines, while many major cities and agricultural areas are located near floodplains. There is significant risk for increased coastal and fluvial flooding due to changing climatic conditions.

Full may refer to:

• People with the surname Full, including:
  • Mr. Full (given name unknown), acting Governor of German Cameroon, 1913 to 1914
• A property in the mathematical field of topology; see Full set
• A property of functors in the mathematical field of category theory; see Full and faithful functors
• Satiety, the absence of hunger
• A standard bed size, see Bed
• Fulling, also known as tucking or walking ("waulking" in Scotland), term for a step in woollen clothmaking (verb: to full)
• Full-Reuenthal, a municipality in the district of Zurzach in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland

A paddle is a handheld tool with an elongated handle and a flat, widened end (the blade) used as a lever to apply force onto the bladed end. It most commonly describes a completely handheld tool used to propel a human-powered watercraft by pushing water in a direction opposite to the direction of travel (i.e. paddling). A paddle is different from an oar (which can be similar in shape and perform the same function via rowing) – an oar is attached to the watercraft via a fulcrum.

The term "paddle" can also be used to describe objects of similar shapes or functions:

• A rotating set of paddle boards known as a paddle wheel is used to propel a steamboat or paddle steamer.
• In a number of racquet sports (e.g. ping-pong and paddle ball), a "paddle" or "bat" is a short, solid racket used to strike a ball.
• A mixing paddle is a device used to stir or mix separate ingredients within a mixture.
• A spanking paddle is used in corporal punishment, typically to forcefully hit someone (e.g. a juvenile) on the buttocks.

Sup or SUP may refer to:

• Saskatchewan United Party, a political party in Saskatchewan
• Supremum or sup, in mathematics, the least upper bound
• Societas unius personae, proposed EU type of single-person company
• SUP Media or Sup Fabrik, a Russian internet company
• Sailors' Union of the Pacific
• Scottish Unionist Party (1986), established in the mid-1980s
• Simple Update Protocol, dropped proposal to speed RSS and Atom
• Software Upgrade Protocol
• Standup paddleboarding
• Stanford University Press
• Sydney University Press
• Syracuse University Press
• Sup squark, the supersymmetric partner of the up quark
• <sup>, an HTML tag for superscript
• Supangle or sup, a Turkish dessert