Overflow vs Overslow - What's the difference?

overflow | overslow |

As verbs the difference between overflow and overslow

is that overflow is to flow over the brim of (a container) while overslow is to render slow; to check; to curb.

As a noun overflow

is the spillage resultant from overflow; excess.

As an adjective overslow is

too slow.

overflow

English

Noun

(en noun)

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

* overflow hole

Verb

(en verb)

To flow over the brim of (a container).

The river overflowed the levee.

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

To cause an overflow. (rfex)

To flow over the edge of a container.

The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.

To exceed limits or capacity.

The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.

# (computing, ambitransitive) To exceed the available numeric range.

Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.

To be superabundant; to abound.

(Rogers)

Derived terms

* buffer overflow * underflow English heteronyms ----

overslow

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Too slow.

Verb

(en verb)

To render slow; to check; to curb.

(Hammond)

(Webster 1913)