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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishoverflowen, fromOld Englishoferflōwan, equivalent toover- +‎flow.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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overflow (countable anduncountable,pluraloverflows)

  1. Thespillage resultant from overflowing.
    • 1943,Climatological Data, page 8:
      High crests of theseoverflows 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;[]
  2. Anoutlet for escape of excess material.
  3. Excess,superabundance
    • 1977 February 12, Don Shewey, John Glines, “Theatre Profiles Part II”, inGay Community News, volume 4, number33, page 8:
      GCN: Do you have anoverflow of scripts?
      JG: I have more than we could ever do, certainly. But there's never anoverflow of quality, and quality is really hard to come by, real quality.
  4. (computing) The situation where a value exceeds the availablenumericrange.

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Translations

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spillage
outlet
excess
computing: situation where a value exceeds the available range

Verb

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overflow (third-person singular simple presentoverflows,present participleoverflowing,simple pastoverflowed,past participleoverflowedor(sometimes proscribed)overflown)

  1. (transitive) Toflow over thebrim of (acontainer).
    The riveroverflowed the levee into the road.
    • 1611,The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [],→OCLC,1 Chronicles12:15:
      Theſeare they that went ouer Ioꝛden in the firſt moneth, when it hadouerflowen all his* bankes, and they put to flight all them of the valleis,both toward the Eaſt, and toward the Weſt.
    • 1965 January 1, “General Summary of River and Flood Conditions-Continued”, inClimatological Data: National Summary[1], volume16, number 1,Asheville, NC:United States Weather Bureau, page265:
      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.
    • 2018, John G. Neihardt,A Cycle of the West, page461:
      The shadows had begun tooverflow Their stagnant puddles on the nightward side, When presently the roar of battle died
  2. (transitive) Tocover with aliquid,literally orfiguratively.
    The flash floodoverflowed most of the parkland and some homes.
    • 1851, Herman Melville,Moby-Dick:
      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 continuallyoverflowed by the rippling clear water[]
  3. (transitive) To cause anoverflow.(Can we add anexample for this sense? )
  4. (intransitive) Toflowover thebrim of acontainer.
    Synonyms:brim over,overbrim,overflood
    The watersoverflowed into the Ninth Ward.
  5. (intransitive) To be subject to a load thatexceedslimits orcapacity. [withwith]
    Synonyms:brim over,overbrim
    The hospital ER wasoverflowing with flu cases.
    1. (intransitive, figuratively) To have something insuperabundance; toabound in something.
      • 1857, Eustace Rogers Conder,Josiah Conder: A Memoir:
        I see and feel that I want the first requisite — a heartoverflowing with Divine love towards sinners
  6. (computing, ambitransitive) To (cause to)exceed the availablenumericrange.
    Calculating 255+1 willoverflow an eight-bit byte.
    • 2008, Adam Oxford,Windows Vista - Autumn 2008, Future US,→ISSN,page67:
      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 everythingoverflows. Eventually, this can cause the game to crash to desktop, but adding more memory can help prevent this.

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Translations

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(transitive) to fill beyond the limits of
(transitive) to cover with a liquid
(intransitive) to flow over the brim of a container
(intransitive) to be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity
computing: to exceed the available numeric range
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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishoverflow.

Noun

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overflow m (pluraloverflows)

  1. (computing)overflow(situation where a value exceeds the available range)
    Synonym:transbordamento
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