Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To flow or run over the top, brim, or banks.
- intransitive verb To be filled beyond capacity, as a container or waterway.
- intransitive verb To have a boundless supply; be superabundant. synonym: teem.
- intransitive verb To flow over the top, brim, or banks of.
- intransitive verb To spread or cover over; flood.
- intransitive verb To cause to fill beyond capacity.
- noun The act of overflowing.
- noun Something that flows over; an excess.
- noun An outlet or vent through which excess liquid may escape.
- noun Computers A condition in which a calculation produces a unit of data too large to be stored in the location allotted to it.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To flow or spread over; inundate; cover with water or other liquid; flood.
- To fill and run over the edge or brim of.
- To deluge; overwhelm; cover; overrun.
- To overcome with drink; intoxicate.
- To flow over; swell and run over the brim or banks.
- To be so full that the contents run over the brim; be more than full.
- noun A flowing over; an inundation.
- noun The excess that flows over; hence, superabundance; exuberance.
- noun Specifically, that form or style of verse in which the sense may flow on through more than a couple of lines, and does not necessarily terminate with the line.
- noun Same as
overflow-basin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation.
- noun That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance.
- noun An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.
- noun a meeting constituted of the surplus or overflow of another audience.
- intransitive verb To run over the bounds.
- intransitive verb To be superabundant; to abound.
- transitive verb To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.
- transitive verb To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
spillage resultant from overflow;excess . - verb To
fill beyond thelimits of acontainer orsystem . - verb computing, transitive, intransitive To
exceed the availablenumeric range .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity
- verb flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- verb overflow with a certain feeling
- noun a large flow
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term overflow is used here to describe near-bottom flow of cold, dense (σ 27.8).
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The "overflow" is one thing, the emotion from which it originated another.
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Decreasing overflow from the Nordic seas into the Atlantic Ocean through the Faroe Bank channel since 1950
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Their onscreen chemistry seems to overflow from the TV screen into real life, and today, their chemistry has blossomed into true affections for each other.
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There was room on the grounds in overflow areas; the use of those overflow areas was part of the plan if more people came then past experience indicated.
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Without a Herculean effort by 400 Davidson County inmates on Monday, Nashville's lone working water treatment plant most likely would have been overrun with muddy overflow from the Cumberland River.
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The soothing cascade overflow is naturally therapeutic, reminiscent of a river, as the water falls onto the pebbles below.
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I have actually had a similar experience wearing a bat suit. div#main {overflow: visible;}
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As Myra was registering what was occuring, her right foot slipped on the overflow from the water bowl and she went down on her ass like a Douglas fir felled in the forest.
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Much of that footprint reduction is potential, waiting to be released in the form of our new house, but that will have to wait until next year, the overflow from a 2007 resolution that, I suspect, will remain in effect for the rest of my life.
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