different between overfill vs overfull

English

Etymology

From Middle English *overfillen, oferfüllen, from Old English oferfyllan (“to cram, overfill”), equivalent to over- +? fill. Cognate with Middle Low German overfullen, German überfüllen, Danish overfylde, Swedish överfylla.

Verb

overfill (third-person singular simple present overfills, present participle overfilling, simple past and past participle overfilled)

1. To fill beyond capacity or beyond what is appropriate.

Translations

Noun

overfill (plural overfills)

1. An instance of overfilling.

Translations

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English overful, overfulle, from Old English oferfull (“overfull”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *uberfullaz; equivalent to over- +? full. Cognate with German übervoll (“overfull”), Swedish överfull (“overfull”).

Adjective

overfull (not comparable)

1. excessively filled; full to overflowing

Alternative forms

• overful (obsolete)

Derived terms

• overfully
• overfullness

Related terms

• overfill

Etymology 2

over- +? full house

Noun

overfull (plural overfulls)

1. (poker) A full house that beats someone else's full house.

   • […] let's say the flop comes 9-9-8, with the open pair on top. One player has J-T-9-8 for the overfull—9s full of 8s for the nut full house—while another player has 8-8-7-6 for 8s full of 9s and the "underfull". The player with the underfull is both getting smashed and drawing dead.

Antonyms

• underfull

Hypernyms

• full house
• hand (poker sense)