What's the difference between abound and overflowing?

Abound


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful.
  • (v. i.) To be copiously supplied; -- followed by in or with.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
  • (2) Whilst there were some encouraging signs of behaviour change, opportunities for the spread of HIV continued to abound in this important group.
  • (3) Lewis adds: Dark rumours of personal frictions during the Clinton Administration abound but, politically, a Yellen appointment would probably be the easiest course for the President to pursue.
  • (4) Clinical medicine abounds in uncertainties arising from the very nature of clinical data and physicians' judgments.
  • (5) Although psychiatric literature abounds in allusions to the phenomenon of "déjà vu", few communications were devoted to an analysis of this interesting psychological state.
  • (6) While breads might abound in the world's cuisine, whether they are employed as a means of making a reasonably tidy portable meal limns the sandwich classification.
  • (7) Evidence of the existence of these two separate functions abounds in animals and in humans, but a clinical advantage has not evolved.
  • (8) Although invasive as well as noninvasive tools have been developed to determine the existence of this disorder, none is perfect and false negative as well as false positive diagnoses abound.
  • (9) While it is true that a descending chromatic four-chord progression is a common convention that abounds in the music industry, the similarities here transcend this core structure,” Klausner wrote.
  • (10) However, the skills required for such a task are often not acquired in academic training, nor do scientific journals abound with information on the practical aspects of running a large study.
  • (11) Tensions, suspicions and misunderstandings between Germany and its eurozone partners abound.
  • (12) Krebs and Meyer's (162) "marked differences in findings between one investigator and another," and Senay's (245) comment 77 years later that "disagreements abound" can now be seen as an inevitable consequence of the widely differing experimental protocols and procedures that have been adopted.
  • (13) Ultrastructural studies revealed that with estrogens, the cultures had the appearance of rapidly dividing cells having large euchromatic nuclei and prominent nucleoli, with aboundant free ribosomes in the cytoplasm.
  • (14) The deaths or disappearance of more than 40 journalists, probably because of their work in this period, together with the direct and indirect threats that abound in all the main hotspots, mean most regional media limit their coverage to superficial reporting of violent events and arrests.
  • (15) Pence met repeatedly with House Republicans but rebels still abounded.
  • (16) Tales of tips to hostesses and waitresses of £50,000 also abounded.
  • (17) Although the literature abounds with strategies to prevent unionization, little had been presented on establishing and maintaining effective relations with bargaining units.
  • (18) Rumours abound that Trump has had some link to Putin’s sinister finances.
  • (19) In the basal telencephalon NPY-immunoreactive cells abound mostly in striatum, but some are also found in the amygdala (particularly basal, central, and lateral amygdaloid nuclei), the claustrum, and in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
  • (20) With its troops heavily involved in southern Somalia, suggestions abound that Nairobi may seek to create a permanent buffer zone in the three Somali regions – Gedo, Lower Juba and Middle Juba – abutting Kenya's North Eastern province.

Overflowing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overflow
  • (n.) An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Corticosterone (4 x 10(-5) M) did not alter the stimulation-evoked 3H-overflow at 1-30 Hz.
  • (2) Bilateral electromyographic recordings from the biceps brachii and brachialis demonstrated that the amount of excitation overflow in the nonactive limb is between 10 percent and 20 percent of the maximal intensity of activity measured in the exercised limb.
  • (3) Overflow curves in both regions could be described with similar kinetic parameters except for the Vmax, which in the nucleus accumbens was only 60% of that measured in the caudate-putamen.
  • (4) The effects of alpha-adrenoceptor agonists and antagonists on the electrically (slices) or potassium-evoked (synaptosomes) tritium overflow were studied.
  • (5) No difference was found for the inhibition by serotonin and the facilitation by metitepine of the evoked overflow and for the metitepine-induced shift of the concentration-response curve for serotonin to the right.
  • (6) However, higher doses of diltiazem (60 microM) reduced the tritium overflow elicited by RNS or Vt but enhanced that caused by KCl.
  • (7) The alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist clonidine inhibited, whereas the alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonist rauwolscine facilitated the stimulated overflow of [3H]NA.
  • (8) In contrast, in synaptosomes superfused with Ca(2+)-free Krebs-Henseleit solution containing 15 mM K+ throughout, ethanol did not affect the tritium overflow evoked by 2 min introduction of 75 microM Ca2+ into the superfusion fluid.
  • (9) Increased formation of hydroxyl free radicals (.OH) reflected by .OH adduct of salicylate in brain dialysate was demonstrated during the sustained (more than 2 hours) dopamine overflow elicited by 75 nmol of 1-methyl-4-phenyldihydropyridine (MPDP+) and 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) in the rat striatum.
  • (10) At 10 min there was an associated transient minor increase in NA overflow but at 20 and 30 min the overflow of NA, elevated as a result of anoxic perfusion, returned to pre-anoxic levels on the re-introduction of substrate and oxygen.
  • (11) Cocaine (3 x 10(-6) M) enhanced the 3H-overflow slightly at 1-30 Hz.
  • (12) The ratio between stimulation-evoked 3H-overflow and spontaneous 3H-outflow was the same for both amines at 3 Hz, while the ratio was higher for 3H-NA at 10 Hz.
  • (13) In vitro, yohimbine increased K+-stimulated overflow of endogenous NA in a dose-dependent fashion.
  • (14) In perfused mesenteric vasculatures from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive Wistar kyoto rats (WKY), the effects of captopril on the vascular responsiveness and norepinephrine overflow from the adrenergic nerve endings were examined.
  • (15) Ethanol inhibited the NMDA-evoked tritium overflow in a concentration-dependent manner.
  • (16) Noradrenaline overflow from and the potassium content of circumflex territory venous effluent was unchanged.
  • (17) N-methyl-D-aspartate (50-2000 microM) produced a concentration-dependent increase in [3H]norepinephrine overflow from cortical and hippocampal slices with no significant alteration of the response following chronic ethanol treatment.
  • (18) Exocytotic release: Electrical stimulation of the left stellate ganglion (12 Hz; 1 min) evoked a calcium-dependent overflow of noradrenaline and NPY, that was accompanied by a minor and prolonged increase in DOPEG overflow.
  • (19) Overflow was detected using chronoamperometry with electrochemically pretreated, Nafion-coated carbon fiber microelectrodes.
  • (20) Surrey’s fast-growing population, overflowing out of London, needs 13,000 new school places.

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