Overflow vs Overspill - What's the difference?
overflow | overspill |
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.
That which spills over.
To spill over, to overflow, to spill out of.
* 2002 , Urlan Wannop, Regional Imperative: Regional Planning and Governance in Britain , page 93:
* 2004 , Delilah Devlin, Pirate's Desire , page 202:
As nouns the difference between overflow and overspill
is that overflow is the spillage resultant from overflow; excess while overspill is that which spills over.As verbs the difference between overflow and overspill
is that overflow is to flow over the brim of (a container) while overspill is to spill over, to overflow, to spill out of.overflow
English
Noun
(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 ----overspill
English
Noun
(-)- New towns were to accommodate overspill from established cities.
Verb
- Further, Coventry's prosperity and rapid growth was threatening that it as well as Birmingham would require to overspill its boundaries.
- Calandra added more, until the oil threatened to overspill her palm.