Difference between Overflow and Runoff

What is the difference between Overflow and Runoff?

Overflow as a noun is the spillage resultant from overflow; excess. while Runoff as a noun is that portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate, but instead is discharged from the area.

Overflow

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fill beyond the limits of a container or system. To compute a number outside the range of (a register or variable which is holding it).

Example sentence: Writing Christian or worship music is just because I love Jesus, so everything I do is going to be an overflow of that.

Runoff

Part of speech: noun

Definition: That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate, but instead is discharged from the area.Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated

We hope you now know whether to use Overflow or Runoff in your sentence.

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