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 overflows in a Sentence
In wet seasons it overflows its banks and becomes greatly extended in area, discharging its surplus waters into the San Joaquin; but in dry seasons the evaporation is so great that there is no such discharge.
In the presence of lid malpositions it overflows medially, centrally or laterally, according to the lid position.
It cannot by itself prevent stack overflows on the C stack being used by the application.
We will concern ourselves only with the overflow of dynamic buffers, otherwise known as stack-based buffer overflows.
In 1992, the former Fife Regional Council installed 6 mm screens at the town's combined sewer overflows.
The cherry pie filling often overflows a bit round the edges of the dish during cooking.
It cannot by itself prevent stack overflows on the C stack overflows on the C stack being used by the application.
As the low-lying plains are altogether an alluvial deposit, the coarser sediments accumulate in the regions where the river first overflows its banks to spread out over the plains.
The tideway group warned last November that there was currently a 100% chance of sewage overflows in the area between May and October.
Water - Never build too close to a stream or river that overflows its banks.
When your inbox explodes, and your wastebasket overflows, you can shove miscellaneous notes into your stunning Kenneth Cole and, poof!
There is no magic potion for eye wrinkles, but the skin care industry overflows with a wide collection of gels, creams, serums and oils designed to combat the aging process.
With the exception of a few flat ridges running from north to south, it is so low that it requires, to protect it from overflows, an unbroken line of levees averaging 15 ft.
The most fertile soil is the alluvium of the' Delta, deposited during the overflows of the Mississippi.
The two first explain themselves; Nili is the season in which the Nile overflows its banks.
It then runs through a stony plain, where it frequently overflows and causes great damage, this being indeed the main characteristic of the Durance throughout its course.
After passing through some narrow gorges near Sisteron the bed of the river becomes wide, and spreads desolation around, the frequent overflows being kept within bounds by numerous dykes and enbankments.
While the furnace is running the crucible and channel remain filled with lead; all the lead reduced to the metallic state in smelting collects in the crucible, and rising in the channel, overflows into the basin, whence it is removed.
It is well known that in the vegetable kingdom the protoplasm of one cell frequently overflows into that of cells adjacent - that there is, as it were, a continuous network of protoplasm (idioplasm of Nageli) prevailing throughout vegetable tissues, rather than an aggregation of isolated units.
They are merely craters raised above the level of the surrounding country by the gradual accretion of the soft oily mud, which overflows at frequent intervals whenever a discharge of gas occurs.
In its lower course the Terek becomes very sinuous and sluggish, and frequently overflows its banks with disastrous results.
In floods, unable to carry the additional water contributed by the Sarare, it overflows its banks, and by several canos gives its surplus to the Capanaparo, which, about 18 m.
But the Prussian alliance became hateful to her, and her later correspondence with Grimm overflows with contempt of his successor Frederick William II., who is always spoken of by her as "Brother Gu."
The mixture is fed in continuously to the central pan (e), whence it overflows into the compartments (c'), (c 2), (c 3) successively until it reaches the circumference, where it is discharged continously by o and into the collecting-box (q), being now converted into salt-cake.
Goose Lake, for example, lies in the Great Basin at some seasons; but at other times it overflows and becomes a part of the drainage system of the Sacramento river.
In the wet season, it overflows the country far and wide, sometimes to a breadth of 20 m., for long distances, and for 400 m.
To use the apparatus, the measuring tube is completely filled with water by pouring water into both tubes, raising the level tube until water overflows at the stopcock, which is then turned.
He overflows with anecdotes, seldom indeed gets beyond the anecdotal stage, yet from this all study of nature must begin; and he sees everywhere intelligence and beauty, love and sociality, where a later view of nature insists primarily on mere adaptation of interests or purely competitive struggles.