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Overflow meaning

  1. The spillage resultant from overflowing.
  2. An outlet for escape of excess material.
  3. Excess, superabundance

Synonyms of Overflow

flow bubble over run out spill brim over run over well over overrun flowing overspill runoff stream outpouring flood spill over

Using Overflow

  • The main meaning on this page is: The spillage resultant from overflowing. | An outlet for escape of excess material. | Excess, superabundance
  • Useful related words include: flow, bubble over, run out, spill.
  • In the example corpus, overflow often appears in combinations such as: the overflow, an overflow, to overflow.

Context around Overflow

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 29.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Overflow

  • In this selection, "overflow" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, storm, sewer, small, dam, crowd and immediately stand out and add context to how "overflow" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a sewer overflow immediately on and a storm overflow discharge in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "overflow" sits close to words such as adjustable, automobiles and biotech, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with overflow

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

An overflow drainage pipe will run to the north-facing seawall. (11 words)

An overflow crowd attended a board meeting at the Temecula Valley Unified School District headquarters this week. (17 words)

It has been reported that storm overflow water has been discharged into the River Wey for 48 hours. (18 words)

It exists only on the stack, where BRK and PHP always write a 1, while IRQ and NMI always write a 0. The "SO" input pin, when asserted, will set the processor's overflow status bit (deasserting it does not clear the overflow bit, however). (45 words)

Weir main A weir (also sometimes called an overflow dam) is a type of small overflow dam that is often used within a river channel to create an impoundment lake for water abstraction purposes and which can also be used for flow measurement or retardation. (45 words)

Google Messages displays a search bar on the top of the welcome screen, along with your Google account’s profile picture, which you can tap to open one of the two overflow menus (the second can be opened using the hamburger button on the left). (45 words)

Example sentences (20)

The alert at Lyme Regis is due to a sewer overflow immediately on the beach which lies east of the breakwater, with another overflow to the west on the other side of the harbour.

Overflow tanks used to control the flow of wastewater, which leads into the River Misbourne, had a ‘storm overflow discharge’ in January, which only ceased at the end of June this year.

It exists only on the stack, where BRK and PHP always write a 1, while IRQ and NMI always write a 0. The "SO" input pin, when asserted, will set the processor's overflow status bit (deasserting it does not clear the overflow bit, however).

The difference between signed and unsigned versions of commands is not a sign extension (or lack thereof) of the operands, but controls whether a trap is executed on overflow (e.g. Add) or an overflow is ignored (Add unsigned).

Weir main A weir (also sometimes called an overflow dam) is a type of small overflow dam that is often used within a river channel to create an impoundment lake for water abstraction purposes and which can also be used for flow measurement or retardation.

A coalition brief observed that, even if every courthouse room were used for overflow, it would hold only “a minute fraction of the 81.3 million victims” of Trump’s alleged scheme to invalidate votes cast for Joe Biden.

And the storms themselves are more sudden and intense, and therefore more likely to cause floods, burst levees and overflow reservoirs.

An overflow crowd attended a board meeting at the Temecula Valley Unified School District headquarters this week.

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An overflow crowd of 15,000 poured into a joint Israeli-Palestinian ceremony for the bereaved whose family members have been killed on both sides of the conflict.

An overflow drainage pipe will run to the north-facing seawall.

A vast warehouse acts as an overflow to store the precious items found by archaeologists or donated over centuries.

Because PNC Park and Acrisure Stadium are so close next to each other — fans can park in the same parking lots and walk to either venue — there will be an overflow of people and events to put both games at home.

Every day, the road in front of our little house filled up with overflow parking from the new Trader Joe’s.

Google Messages displays a search bar on the top of the welcome screen, along with your Google account’s profile picture, which you can tap to open one of the two overflow menus (the second can be opened using the hamburger button on the left).

He has appealed to the Kenya Red Cross Society to provide them with refrigerated 40-foot containers to act as mobile morgues to deal with the overflow.

House lawmakers proposed placing rigid requirements on the Healey administration’s ability to spend $250 million in shelter funding, including specifically carving out $50 million for an overflow shelter site for families waiting for shelter placement.

House lawmakers wanted more guardrails like the requirement to use $50 million to build an overflow site within 30 days for families placed on a waitlist for shelter.

It has been reported that storm overflow water has been discharged into the River Wey for 48 hours.

I think he threw the 2016 primary for Hillary especially when she hardly got any turnout to her campaign gatherings while Bernie drew overflow crowds.

Online discussions overflow with speculation about what might happen next or, sometimes, what the heck is going on now.

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Common combinations with overflow

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "overflow" in a sentence?
An example: "The alert at Lyme Regis is due to a sewer overflow immediately on the beach which lies east of the breakwater, with another overflow to the west on the other side of the harbour." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "overflow" from authentic English texts.
What does "overflow" mean?
Overflow means: The spillage resultant from overflowing.
What are synonyms of "overflow"?
Common synonyms of "overflow" include: flow, bubble over, run out, spill, brim over, run over, well over, overrun. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "overflow" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "overflow", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.