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overflow

English

Etymology

From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferfl?wan, equivalent to over- +? flow.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation)
    • (noun): enPR: ??v?-fl?, IPA(key): /???v??fl??/
    • (verb): enPR: ?-v?-fl??, IPA(key): /???v??fl??/
  • (General American)
    • (noun): enPR: ??v?r-fl?, IPA(key): /?o?v??flo?/
    • (verb): enPR: ?-v?r-fl??, IPA(key): /?o?v??flo?/
  • Rhymes: -?? (verb)

Noun

overflow (countable and uncountable, plural overflows)

  1. The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.
  2. Outlet for escape of excess material.
  3. (computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.

Derived terms

  • overflow hole

Translations

Verb

overflow (third-person singular simple present overflows, present participle overflowing, simple past overflowed, past participle overflowed or (US, proscribed) overflown)

  1. (transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container).
  2. (transitive) To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
  3. (transitive) To cause an overflow. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  4. (intransitive) To flow over the edge of a container.
  5. (intransitive) To exceed limits or capacity.
    1. (computing, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.
  6. (intransitive) To be superabundant; to abound.
    • 1857, Eustace Rogers Conder, Josiah Conder: A Memoir
      I see and feel that I want the first requisite — a heart overflowing with Divine love towards sinners

Translations

Derived terms

  • buffer overflow
  • full to overflowing
  • underflow

Portuguese

Etymology

From English overflow.

Noun

overflow m (plural overflows)

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

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clancy

English

Etymology

From Clancy of the Overflow, a character in a poem of that name (also in The Man from Snowy River) by Australian poet Banjo Patterson.

Noun

clancy (plural clancies)

  1. An overflow or spillage.
    • 1971, David Ireland, The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
      They'd had a clancy [] . He had dozed off with the water running and there was water slopping everywhere.

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