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English
Etymology
From Middle English overflowen, from Old English oferflōwan, equivalent to over- + flow.
Pronunciation
Noun
overflow (countable and uncountable, plural overflows)
- The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.
- Outlet for escape of excess material.
- (computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.
Derived terms
Translations
computing: situation where a value exceeds the available range
Verb
overflow (third-person singular simple present overflows, present participle overflowing, simple past overflowed, past participle overflowed or (US, proscribed) overflown)
- (transitive) To flow over the brim of (a container).
The river overflowed the levee.
1611, The Holy Bible, (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 1 Chronicles 12:15:Theſe are they that went ouer Ioꝛden in the firſt moneth, when it had ouerflowen 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”, in Climatological Data: National Summary, volume 16, number 1, Asheville, NC: United States Weather Bureau, page 265: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.
- (transitive) To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
The flash flood overflowed 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 continually overflowed by the rippling clear water […]
- (transitive) To cause an overflow. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (intransitive) To flow over the edge of a container.
The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.
- (intransitive) To exceed limits or capacity.
The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.
- (computing, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) exceed the available numeric range.
Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.
- (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
Derived terms
Translations
to fill beyond the limits of
- Arabic: فَاضَ (fāḍa)
- Egyptian Arabic: فاض (fāḍ)
- Armenian: հորդել (hy) (hordel), հեղեղվել (hy) (heġeġvel), ողողվել (hy) (oġoġvel)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: please add this translation if you can
- Eastern Min: please add this translation if you can
- Gan: please add this translation if you can
- Hakka: please add this translation if you can
- Hokkien: please add this translation if you can
- Mandarin: 溢出 (zh) (yìchū), 漫溢 (zh) (mànyì)
- Eastern Bontoc: choron, kor-as
- Esperanto: elrandiĝi
- Finnish: ylitäyttää
- French: déborder (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: überfließen (de), überlaufen (de)
- Greek: ξεχειλίζω (el) (xecheilízo)
- Hebrew: גָּלַשׁ (he) (galásh), עָלָה עַל גְּדוֹתָיו ('alá 'al gdotáv)
- Ilocano: lupias
- Italian: traboccare (it), ridondare (it), sommergere (it)
- Japanese: 溢れる (ja) (あふれる, afureru) (intransitive)
- Kapampangan: manyampukaki
- Latin: stāgnō (la), inundō
- Lubuagan Kalinga: lumay-as
- Malay: limpah atas
- Maori: puha, ngāekieki, renga, ngawhā (of a river), engaenga, puhake, tōrena
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: renne over
- Nynorsk: renne over
- Portuguese: transbordar (pt)
- Russian: переполня́ться (ru) impf (perepolnjátʹsja) (intransitive), переполня́ть (ru) impf (perepolnjátʹ) (transitive), перелива́ться (ru) impf (perelivátʹsja) (intransitive)
- Scottish Gaelic: cuir thairis
- Spanish: rebosar (es), colmar (es)
- Tagalog: umapaw, apawan
- Tuwali Ifugao: lakbi, habong
- Uyghur: تاشماق (tashmaq)
- Venetian: ndar par sora (vec), simar, ẑimar, limegare
- Vietnamese: tràn (vi)
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to flow over the brim or edge
computing: to exceed the available numeric range
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- Afrikaans: (please verify) oorloop, (please verify) oorstroom
- Arabic: (please verify) تَجَاوَزَ (tajāwaza)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 泛濫/泛滥 (faan6 laam6)
- Mandarin: 溢出 (zh) (yìchū)
- Danish: (please verify) flyde over, (please verify) gå over
- Dutch: (please verify) overlopen (nl), (please verify) overstromen (nl)
- French: (please verify) déborder (fr), (please verify) transborder (fr), (please verify) s’épancher (fr)
- German: (please verify) überfließen (de), (please verify) überfluten (de), (please verify) überströmen, (please verify) überlaufen (de)
- Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: (please verify) debordare (it), (please verify) straripare (it)
- Japanese: (please verify) 溢れる (ja) (afureru)
- Kashmiri: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
- Khmer: (please verify) ហៀរ (km) (hiə)
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: (please verify) oversvømme (no)
- Spanish: (please verify) rebosar (es), (please verify) desbordar (es)
- Swedish: (please verify) översvämma (sv)
- Telugu: (please verify) ఉప్పొంగు (te) (uppoṅgu)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
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Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English overflow.
Noun
overflow m (plural overflows)
- (computing) overflow (situation where a value exceeds the available range)
- Synonym: transbordamento