overstreamとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /əʊvəˈstɹiːm// invalid IPA characters (/)
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /oʊ.vɚˈstɹiːm// invalid IPA characters (/)

動詞

overstream (三人称単数 現在形 overstreams, 現在分詞 overstreaming, 過去形および過去分詞形 overstreamed)

1. To stream or flow over.

名詞

overstream (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 overstreams)

1. (rare) An excessive, steady flow, succession of something.
   • 1942, Pennsylvania Game News 1942-06: Volume 13, Issue 3‎^[1], Pennsylvania Game Commission, →ISBN, page 9:

     I must have a definite mark by which to locate him in that rugged territory overstream.

   • 1989, The Greater Yellowstone Postfire Assessment‎^[2], Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee, page 84:

     Water temperature can be altered with the removal of overstream canopy. Water temperatures can increase in summer and decrease in winter encouraging lethal anchor ice problems.

   • 2001, Ernest Thompson Seton, Wild Animal Ways‎^[3], International Law & Taxation Publishers, →ISBN, page 199:

     The day had open fair, but they had not sailed an hour before the sky was darkened, noisy wind was blowing in changing ways, and an overstream of air came down that was stinging, numbing cold.