overflow

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 ōʹvə-flō

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The spillage resultant from overflowing. countable,uncountable
    — 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; […]
  2. An outlet for escape of excess material. countable,uncountable
  3. Excess, superabundance countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  4. The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To flow over the brim of (a container). transitive
    — The river overflowed the levee into the road.
  2. To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively. transitive
    — The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.
  3. To cause an overflow. transitive
  4. To flow over the brim of a container. intransitive
    — The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.
  5. To be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity. intransitive
    — The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.
  6. To be subject to a load that exceeds limits or capacity.; To have something in superabundance; to abound in something. figuratively,intransitive
    — I see and feel that I want the first requisite — a heart overflowing with Divine love towards sinners
  7. To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range. ambitransitive
    — Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.

词形变化

overflows plural overflows present,singular,third-person overflowing participle,present overflowed past overflowed participle,past overflown participle,past,proscribed,sometimes

词汇关系

衍生词
overflow hole overflow meeting overflow pool buffer overflow full to overflowing overflowable overflower underflow

词源

词源 1
From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow.
词源 2
From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow.
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