0 present participle of overflow --
1 When a liquid overflows, it flows over the edges of a container, etc. because there is too much of it: --
2 If you overflow with thoughts or feelings, you express them strongly: --
It is given excessively, ' more than adequately, exceeding meaning, overflowing the intention of the ego, leaving, instead of an excess of meaning, an overabundance of donation ' (39).
Sparkling windows were being cleaned and flowerpots hanging from lamp posts ringing the square full to overflowing with colourful blooms were being watered for the day ahead.
But overflowing is more than just flowing over the edge of a container: when overflowing occurs, the fluid put into the container is wasted and creates a mess.
After this time, anaerobic fermentation medium was pumped into the dialysis tubing from the bottom, with the waste effluent overflowing from the top of the vessel into an appropriate receptacle.
As well as being particularly relevant to the so-called overflowing cylinder experiment, this linear straining flow also represents the canonical local behaviour near an expanding free surface.
Frequent overflowing caused nuisances and aesthetic problems, as did scavengers' night soil carts.
When overflowing takes place, the fluid goes upward and over the side of the container.
Their modelling in the nineteenth century became associated with bouquets of wax flowers that usually were delicate but also could be massive and overflowing.
