overflow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow.
Base: flow
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overflows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: overflows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overflowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overflowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: overflowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overflown
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
proscribed
sometimes
Senses:
gloss: The spillage resultant from overflowing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: High crests of these overflows were: Manhattan, 23.0 feet, 8.0 above bankful, on June 16–17; Wamego, 20.8 feet, 4.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; Topeka, 26.8 feet, 5.8 feet above bankful, on June 17; […]
gloss: An outlet for escape of excess material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Excess, superabundance
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: GCN: Do you have an overflow of scripts?
JG: I have more than we could ever do, certainly. But there's never an overflow of quality, and quality is really hard to come by, real quality.
gloss: The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To flow over the brim of (a container).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The river overflowed the levee into the road.
Theſe are they that went ouer Ioꝛden in the firſt moneth, when it had ouerflowen all his* bankes, and they put to flight all them of the valleis, both toward the Eaſt, and toward the Weſt.
Locally heavy rains on the 21st caused more than 2 feet of overflow on Salt Creek at Ashland, Nebr., on the 22d. Some county roads were inundated. Mill Creek which flows into the Platte River at Louisville, Nebr., overflowed its banks from the heavy rain.
The shadows had begun to overflow Their stagnant puddles on the nightward side, When presently the roar of battle died
gloss: To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.
So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water […]
gloss: To cause an overflow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To flow over the brim of a container.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.
gloss: To be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.
gloss: To be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: I see and feel that I want the first requisite — a heart overflowing with Divine love towards sinners
gloss: To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.
Some programs, especially online games, tend to have coding problems that leave them with memory holes - in other words, they don't delete information from your PC's memory once they're finished with it, they just keep adding and adding until everything overflows. Eventually, this can cause the game to crash to desktop, but adding more memory can help prevent this.
Derived words: overflow hole
overflow meeting
overflow pool
buffer overflow
full to overflowing
overflowable
overflower
underflow
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: فَاضَ
roman: fāḍa
lang: Arabic
word: فاض
roman: fāḍ
lang: Armenian
word: հորդել
roman: hordel
lang: Armenian
word: հեղեղվել
roman: heġeġvel
lang: Armenian
word: ողողվել
roman: oġoġvel
lang: Eastern Bontoc
word: choron
lang: Eastern Bontoc
word: kor-as
lang: Catalan
word: desbordar
lang: Catalan
word: vessar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 溢出
roman: yìchū
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 漫溢
roman: mànyì
lang: Esperanto
word: elrandiĝi
lang: Finnish
word: ylitäyttää
lang: French
word: déborder
lang: Gagauz
word: taşmaa
lang: German
word: überfließen
lang: German
word: überlaufen
lang: Greek
word: ξεχειλίζω
roman: xecheilízo
lang: Greek
word: υπερεκχειλίζω
roman: yperekcheilízo
lang: Hebrew
word: גָּלַשׁ
roman: galásh
lang: Hebrew
word: עָלָה עַל גְּדוֹתָיו
roman: 'alá 'al gdotáv
lang: Tuwali Ifugao
word: lakbi
lang: Tuwali Ifugao
word: habong
lang: Ilocano
word: lupias
lang: Italian
word: traboccare
lang: Italian
word: ridondare
lang: Italian
word: sommergere
lang: Japanese
word: 溢れる
roman: afureru
lang: Lubuagan Kalinga
word: lumay-as
lang: Kapampangan
word: manyampukaki
lang: Latin
word: stāgnō
lang: Latin
word: inundō
lang: Malay
word: limpah atas
lang: Māori
word: puha
lang: Māori
word: ngāekieki
lang: Māori
word: renga
lang: Māori
word: ngawhā
lang: Māori
word: engaenga
lang: Māori
word: puhake
lang: Māori
word: tōrena
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: renne over
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: renne over
lang: Polish
word: przepełniać
lang: Polish
word: przepełnić
lang: Portuguese
word: transbordar
lang: Russian
word: переполня́ть
roman: perepolnjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: перелива́ться
roman: perelivátʹsja
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cuir thairis
lang: Spanish
word: colmar
lang: Spanish
word: rebalsar
lang: Spanish
word: desbordar
lang: Spanish
word: bosar (disused)
lang: Tagalog
word: umapaw
lang: Tagalog
word: apawan
lang: Thai
word: ล้น
roman: lón
lang: Turkish
word: taşmak
lang: Old Anatolian Turkish
word: طاشمق
roman: daşmaq
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طاشمق
roman: taşmak
lang: Uyghur
word: تاشماق
roman: tashmaq
lang: Venetan
word: ndar par sora
lang: Venetan
word: simar
lang: Venetan
word: ẑimar
lang: Venetan
word: limegare
lang: Vietnamese
word: tràn
lang: Russian
word: переполня́ться
roman: perepolnjátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: перепо́лниться
roman: perepólnitʹsja
lang: Ukrainian
word: переповня́тися
roman: perepovnjátysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: перепо́внитися
roman: perepóvnytysja