(v. t.) To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.
(v. t.) To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.
(v. i.) To run over the bounds.
(v. i.) To be superabundant; to abound.
(n.) A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation.
(n.) That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance.
(n.) An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.
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.
Teem
Definition:
(v. t.) To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.
(v. t.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
(a.) To think fit.
(v. i.) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
(v. i.) To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
(v. t.) To produce; to bring forth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The impressive views take in West Angle Bay, Rat Island and the whole length of Milford Haven and Man of War Roads, a 15km ship-teeming passage leading from Dale all the way to Pembroke Dock.
(2) Some of the cultures teemed with rounded microorganisms arranged in chains; Billroth chose to call them streptococci.
(3) The place was teeming with families and young children, and yet despite my best efforts to find one, I was pleased to note there didn't seem to be a Bugaboo buggy in sight.
(4) The story begins with the park open to visitors, teeming with them in fact, and wouldn’t you know it, on the very day we drop in, one of the big beasties breaks out, precipitating catastrophe.
(5) The native grasslands that teemed with marsupials and birds are now an endangered plant community.
(6) KP's government, backed by UN agencies, is currently on a war footing against polio in particular because Peshawar, the province's teeming capital, has become a global health problem.
(7) A few weeks ago this cafe and the square teemed with smugglers conducting their illicit trade in the open, and refugees negotiating prices.
(8) The vast construction site is like something out of Mordor – an immense wall of stone, steel and concrete that towers above a blasted plain teeming with trucks, bulldozers and cranes.
(9) Rooms are available on site, and the nearby town is teeming with guesthouses.
(10) Two possibilities of application of TEEM-test for immunological investigation in multiple sclerosis are discussed: detection of lymphocyte sensitization against a soluble antigen (3 M KCl extracted) derived from a normal brain and measurement of mixed lymphocyte reactin (MLR) after a short-time lymphocyte culture.
(11) The vistas that greet travellers are quite the opposite: Robinson Crusoe islands of swaying palms and snow-soft sand, shimmering azure waters and coral reefs teeming with tropical life.
(12) In recent years, of course, the gathering has teemed with stars, observers reporting even finance ministers stalking them with cameraphones and generally acting like teenage girls at a Justin Timberlake concert.
(13) In The Economy of Cities (1969), Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (1984), Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (1994) and The Nature of Economies (2000), Jacobs proposed that the natural habitat for inventive, ingenious humanity was a teeming city, arguing that livestock had been domesticated and arable farming devised in archaic trading and manufacturing cities.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grappling with grouper … diving off Garajau beach I tried scuba-diving from Garajau beach in Caniço; the clear water of this protected marine reserve is teeming with big, friendly mero (grouper) and surprisingly tropical-looking fish, such as rainbow wrasse and damsel fish.
(15) Nobody knows, for sure, very much about them - how many there are, where they are, how many are needed for a viable population, how they cope with modern life, or, in a country teeming with foxes and badgers, their natural predators.
(16) You take it for granted when you live there, but Wales is teeming with history wherever you go.
(17) Motion pictures were not born in religious practice, but instead are a totally profane offspring of capitalism and technology,” writes Paul Schrader in his landmark book, Transcendental Style in Film, in which he isolates two strains of religious film-making: the epics of Cecil B DeMille, presenting religion as spectacle, with teeming hordes, VistaVision, shafts of light, and strangely subdued orgies.
(18) The capital has become the most cosmopolitan city in the world, from top to bottom, teeming with Americans, Europeans, Australians, Asians, Africans and Arabs.
(19) In practice, the corridors of the parliament often teem with individuals, who meet MEPs in their offices or in open spaces such as the "Mickey Mouse bar" (nicknamed so because of the shape of its seats) inside the parliament.
(20) People have no concept of allowing others to pass beside them on the footpath – assuming you can find a spare inch on the footpath amongst the teeming hordes; traffic is rampant, the MRT always overcrowded, nobody looks where they’re going because they are too busy reading phones, noise of traffic and strange food smells, stifling heat and commercial pressure from advertising everywhere.