2. Verb. (third-person singular of overflow) ¹
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Definition of Overflows
1. overflow [v] - See also: overflow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overflows
Literary usage of Overflows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Metropolitan Sewerage Commission, Massachusetts (1897)
"GENTLEMEN: — The State Board of Health received from you, on April 18, an
application for approval of proposed sewage overflows in connection with the ..."
2. Sanitary Engineering: A Series of Lectures Given Before the School of by John Bailey Denton (1877)
"Storm overflows and Tidal or Outlet Valves.—I have already referred in Section
LXXII. to the necessity which exists of providing storm overflows for the ..."
3. American Sewerage Practice by Harrison Prescott Eddy, Leonard. Metcalf (1914)
"CHAPTER XVI REGULATORS, overflows, OUTLETS, TIDE GATES AND VENTILATION The function
of a sewage flow regulator is to prevent the surcharge an intercepting ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... raised in little brooks by a sudden rain ; they are quickly tif, »nd if the
concernment be poured unexpectedly in upon us, it overflows uf. ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... that when it overflows, one part of it descends to the Atlantic, another part
to the Pacific. This little streamlet, therefore, is a silver thread ..."
6. A Description of Texas: Its Advantages and Resources, with Some Account of by Oran Milo Roberts (1881)
"Their qualities, and how they may, or may not, be redeemed from overflows.
When overflows are necessary, and when not, to preserve their fertility. ..."
7. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... Agueda overflows, and all communication with Ciudad Rodrigo is cut off— Lord
Wellington prepares to besiege Badajoz—Preliminary measures—Impeded by bad ..."
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