Overflow vs Wantonness - What's the difference?
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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.
(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
*1897 , , Dracula , ch. 16,
*:The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness .
(countable, dated) A particular wanton act.
*1882 , , History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty , Little Brown (Boston), v. 3, p. 366,
*:These were simply the wantonnesses of a dishonest man.
Overflow is a related term of wantonness.
As nouns the difference between overflow and wantonness
is that overflow is the spillage resultant from overflow; excess while wantonness is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.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)