Surfeit vs Overflow - What's the difference?
surfeit | overflow |
(countable) An excessive amount of something.
(uncountable) Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.
* Shakespeare
(countable) A sickness or condition caused by overindulgence.
* Bunyan
Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
* Burke
* Sir Philip Sidney
To fill to excess.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
*:You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
*:That hath to instrument this lower world
*:And what is in't,—the never-surfeited sea
*:Hath caused to belch up you;
To feed someone to excess.
(reflexive) To overeat or feed to excess.
*1906 , O. Henry,
*:To the door of this, the twelfth house whose bell he had rung, came a housekeeper who made him think of an unwholesome, surfeited worm that had eaten its nut to a hollow shell and now sought to fill the vacancy with edible lodgers.
(reflexive) To sicken from overindulgence.
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.
In transitive terms the difference between surfeit and overflow
is that surfeit is to feed someone to excess while overflow is to cause an overflow.surfeit
English
Noun
- A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.
- Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made.
- King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.
- to prevent surfeit and other diseases that are incident to those that heat their blood by travels
- Matter and argument have been supplied abundantly, and even to surfeit .
- Now for similitudes in certain printed discourses, I think all herbalists, all stories of beasts, fowls, and fishes are rifled up, that they may come in multitudes to wait upon any of our conceits, which certainly is as absurd a surfeit to the ears as is possible.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "surfeit")Synonyms
* (excessive amount of something) excess, glut, overabundance, superfluity, surplus * (overindulgence in food or drink) gluttony, overeating, overindulgenceVerb
(en verb)- She surfeited her children on sweets.
Synonyms
* (to fill to excess) fill, stuff * (to feed someone to excess) overfeed, stuff * (to overeat or feed to excess) indulge, overeat, overfeed * (to sicken from overindulgence) sickenExternal links
* * *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)
