Overflow vs Runover - What's the difference?
overflow | runover |
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.
(printing) A line of text that overruns the available space.
(television) The situation where a television programme overruns its scheduled slot.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 31, author=Felicia R. Lee, title=Television Ratings, work=New York Times
, passage=CBS ranked No. 1 on Sunday night, aided by “60 Minutes” and an 18-minute runover into the 7 o’clock hour of live basketball coverage from the afternoon. }}
As nouns the difference between overflow and runover
is that overflow is the spillage resultant from overflow; excess while runover is a line of text that overruns the available space.As a verb overflow
is to flow over the brim of (a container).overflow
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(en noun)Derived terms
* 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)
Derived terms
* buffer overflow * underflow English heteronyms ----runover
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