noun
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The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.
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Outlet for escape of excess material.
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The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.
verb
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To flow over the brim of (a container).
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The river overflowed the levee.
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To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
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The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.
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To cause an overflow.
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To flow over the edge of a container.
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The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.
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To exceed limits or capacity.
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The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.
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To be superabundant; to abound.
Examples of overflow in a Sentence
The extent of overflow has thus on each occasion been less.
The length of this dam from rock to rock at the overflow level is about 1500 ft.
They are constructed not only as navigable waterways, but also to relieve the rivers from periodical overflow, and to drain the marshy districts.
The soils in the southern part of Arizona are mainly sandy loams, varying from light loam to heavy, close adobe; on the plateaus is what is known as " mesa " soil; and along the rivers are limited overflow plains of fine sediment - especially along the Colorado and the river Verde.
A disastrous flood, caused by heavy rains and the sudden overflow of the Santa Catarina river on the 28th of August 1909, swept away about one-fourth of the city, drowning1200-1400persons, and destroying about $12,000,000 (Mex.) worth of property.
They were probably marshes that have partially silted up by the yearly overflow of the streams. These pats bear the finest crops.
There are also found in both regions numerous masses of igneous rocks, both plutonic and volcanic, in some places of considerable extent, which pierce through and overflow the earlier formations.
The triumvirates relations with Spain and Rome were very close; they had complete ascendancy over the king and over Catherine; and now the massacre of two hundred Character Protestants at Vassy on the 1st of March 1562 made of the the cup overflow.
The integer overflow problem came to our attention shortly thereafter.
According to one story, Archimedes was puzzled till one day, as he was stepping into a bath and observed the water running over, it occurred to him that the excess of bulk occasioned by the introduction of alloy could be measured by putting the crown and an equal weight of gold separately into a vessel filled with water, and observing the difference of overflow.
Many of the block mountains of the Great Basin are of complicated internal structure, showing rocks of all ages - slate, limestone, quartzites, granite, multi-coloured volcanic rocks, and large areas of lava overflow.
The Sagan in times of flood receives the overflow of the next lake in the series, Chambo or Ganjule, which lies, at a height of 3460 ft., 70 m.
It is the source of the Rio Limay and receives the overflow from two smaller neighbouring lakes.
The alluvial region of the state in 1909 was mainly protected against overflow from the Mississippi river by 754 m.
A large part of the southern littoral is subject to overflow, and much more of it is permanently marshy.
After a long repose Ometepe also burst into renewed activity on the 19th of June 1883, when the lavas from a new crater began to overflow and continued for seven days to spread in various directions over the whole island.
The western country is more open, with isolated mountain-groups and winding valleys, where the Alpheus with its tributaries the Ladon and Erymanthus drains off in a complex river-system the overflow from all Arcadia.
The manuscript, discovered by Edward Pococke the Orientalist, and preserved in the Bodleian Library, contains a vivid description of a famine caused, during the author's residence in Egypt, by the Nile failing to overflow its banks.
Overflow can be accommodated in the adjacent meeting room if necessary.
My eyes avoid the carnage in the sink, the corner where the rubbish bags overflow, the empty fridge.
For this reason he wears special gauntlets at all times which tracks his energy levels and help to safely dissipate the overflow.
An overflow drain should be large enough to handle large amounts of water I like four inch pipe.
Even if the high waters then gush over the new bank, there is a drainage ditch behind it to catch the overflow.
We will concern ourselves only with the overflow of dynamic buffers, otherwise known as stack-based buffer overflows.
Wordsworth described poetry as the ' spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions.
So when the result exceeds 52 bits or when floating overflow occurs, the result differs from that of scalar execution.
The purpose of the scheme is to provide additional storage capacity to the existing system to reduce foul sewer overflow.
The Olympics site is close to the biggest sewage overflow pumping station in London.
The programmer only becomes aware of the lower level when an error such as an arithmetic overflow occurs.
This limit prevents infinite recursion from causing an overflow of the C stack and crashing Python.
The excess wastewater is known as storm sewage and can overflow from the storm tanks into the river.
The buffered serial interface has a flag reset timing, which sets aside additional buffer space to " catch " the data overflow.
A technical problems caused fuel from the overflow bottle to spray into his windscreen and onto his helmet visor.
One or maybe two accommodation bridges, a winding hole, bank work and overflow spill weirs.
During the pope's absence in Paris, at the coronation of Napoleon, Consalvi remained as virtual sovereign in Rome; and his regency was rendered remarkable by a great inundation, caused by the overflow of the Tiber, during which he exposed himself with heroic humanity for the preservation of the sufferers.
There is still, however, a distinct current from the Shari delta to the east end of the lake - known to the natives, like the depression beyond, as the Bahr-el-Ghazal - indicative of the former overflow outlet.
The lake really lies on the watershed between the two, and is probably a glacial relic. Its contribution to either infant stream appears to depend on conditions of overflow determined by the blocking of ice masses towards one end.
Abbott's laborious From Letter to Spirit (1903), Joannine Vocabulary (1904) and Grammar (1906) overflow with statistical details and ever acute, often fanciful, conjecture.
The inhabitants are totally ruined, the hospitals overflow with sick, and famine is everywhere.
Overflow pipes are marked O. The position of stopcocks etc is marked on the diagram below which also shows the hot water path.
The unclean things in the world are merely the product of the overflow of the sewer of the human being.
Having the waterline above grade makes any overflow drain simple.
Finished in a high luster white gloss, complete with a traditionally styled weir waste overflow.
These feelings overflow into other areas of the person's life to the point of generalized unhappiness with everything in life.
The barrel should contain an overflow system so that when it becomes full, the extra water can be diverted elsewhere, perhaps into the yard or a flower bed or even another rain barrel.
Toilets can overflow, stoves can catch on fire and the flowers can wilt if not tended.
Plus size women often overflow their cups, which results in the breasts spilling out at the bottom, overflowing under the arm or billowing over the top of the cups.
Fill the glass - So you don't have an overflow of Champagne in your guests glasses, first fill the glass half full and wait for the bubbles to subside, then fill the remaining glass until it is about three quarters full.
If an excess of toys exists, the child can be encouraged to donate them to less fortunate children or the overflow can be stored in an attic or basement and retrieved when the child tires of the current selection.
An earth sign like Virgo or Capricorn can give him this as long as his lover is willing to let him overflow those earthen banks whenever the call to swim free strikes.