Overview (5) Mini Bio (1) Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta, Leadbelly and Bessie Smith).
Deluge is cross-platform, using a front and back end architecture where libtorrent, a software library written in C++ which provides the application's networking logic, is connected to one of various front ends (including a text console, a Web interface, and a graphical desktop interface using GTK+) through the project's own Python bindings.
Synonyms. 1  And then the heavens opened, releasing a deluge of heavy rain that had all three of us scrambling to be the first back in the house. 2  The game ended in a deluge of rain and sleet but to the credit of both teams they continued to play positive football to the end..1 (the Deluge) The biblical Flood (recorded in Genesis 6-8): the world appeared to be emerging still from the waters of the Deluge. More example sentences. 1  A proper interpretation of the rocks arid fossils speaks of a global, dynamic, watery catastrophe: the biblical Deluge.