Overflew vs Overflow - What's the difference?
overflew | overflow |
(overfly)
To fly over something.
:My family planned to take pictures from the ground as I overflew them in the hot air balloon.
To fly too far past something.
:The small size of the airstrip meant that pilots would frequently overfly and have to circle back.
The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.
Outlet for escape of excess material.
(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.
To flow over the brim of (a container).
To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
To cause an overflow. (rfex)
To flow over the edge of a container.
To exceed limits or capacity.
# (computing, ambitransitive) To exceed the available numeric range.
To be superabundant; to abound.
As verbs the difference between overflew and overflow
is that overflew is (overfly) while overflow is to flow over the brim of (a container).As a noun overflow is
the spillage resultant from overflow; excess.overflew
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* overflow holeVerb
(en verb)- The river overflowed the levee.
- The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.
- 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
- The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.
- The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.
- Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.
- (Rogers)