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Meanings of overflow in English
Synonyms
Examples for "runoff"
Examples for "runoff"
1
A second round runoff will be held on Jan. 29, he said.
2
Vazquez needed 50 percent of the vote to avoid a second-round runoff.
3
We won this election without the need for a runoff, Tsvangirai said.
4
Malians elected former prime minister Keita in a presidential runoff on Sunday.
5
In the end, observers said the runoff may turn on the issues.
1
They feed on the overspill from the void, and it fills them.
2
These birds are overspill, mostly, from burgeoning populations in France and the Netherlands.
3
The grass was high and littered with overspill from the house.
4
Surely you're not converting the energistic overspill from the beyond directly into protein?
5
The document takes into account the overspill of Dublin's population into the surrounding counties.
Usage of overflow in English
1
Great Britain now commands capital, while China and India overflow with labor.
2
Pool that I did not consider New Orleans in danger from overflow.
3
The general arrangement of a leap weir overflow is shown in Fig.
4
An additional emergency overflow ground has also been arranged, said the statement.
5
The new system will enable Kassel to transfer overflow calls to Dublin.
6
The crowd began to disperse and to overflow in the surrounding streets.
7
And from the overflow of the cistern the fountain below was fed.
8
They used the room for overflow when all the kids were home.
9
We're looking for someone to take the overflow from us, she said.
10
That happens sometimes, if adding a new file triggers a shelf overflow.
11
One day, it's going to overflow, right out there to the Outskirts.
12
Notice the enjambment, i.e., the overflow of this verse into the next.
13
The overflow of energy lost the tendency to dissipation and became steady.
14
I must overflow his meadow and prevent him from cutting the grass.
15
Beside it was a curved pipe-almostsurely an overflow pipe, Roland thought.
16
The well of misery would fill and overflow, gently and smoothly irresistible.
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Overflow through the time
Overflow across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common