Lexic.us

Definition of Overflow

1. Noun. A large flow.

2. Verb. Flow or run over (a limit or brim).

3. Noun. The occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity.

4. Verb. Overflow with a certain feeling. "My boss was bubbling over with anger"

Definition of Overflow

1. v. t. To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.

2. v. i. To run over the bounds.

3. n. A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation.

Definition of Overflow

1. Noun. The spillage resultant from overflow; excess. ¹

2. Verb. To fill beyond the limits of a container or system. ¹

3. Verb. (computing ambitransitive) To exceed the available numeric range. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overflow

1. to flow over the top of [v -FLOWED, -FLOWN, -FLOWING, -FLOWS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overflow

overflies overflight overflights overfloat overfloated overfloating overfloats overflood overflooded overflooding

overfloods overflourish overflourished overflourishes overflourishing overflow (current term) overflow hole overflow holes overflow incontinence overflow pool

overflow wave overflowed overfloweth overflowing overflowingly overflowings overflown overflows overflush overflushed

Literary usage of Overflow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"The descriptive notes showed the land to be level, first-rate, "subject to overflow," or "subject to overflow from slough." As a conclusion from those data, ..."

2. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... to overflow the country at different times, according to the canals that are cut through the land, and alfo according to the manner in which they are ..."

3. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"28, 1851, for granting swamp and overflow lands to states having same within ... Suggestion to donate to actual settlers swamp and overflow lands granted to ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"In Expt. 22, while only 45 cc. overflow occurs in the anode cup, ... Each compartment was provided with an automatic overflow by tubes held' in position by ..."

5. Pneumonia: Its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with by René La Roche (1854)
"Injurious effects of the overflow of land.—The extensive prevalence of fever during hot weather, after the overflow of river, lake, or pond banks, ..."

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