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Meaning of overflush | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Surplus assets.
  2. An excess of something.
  3. A flush that appears over something.
  4. A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
  5. A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
  6. A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
  7. The act of overflushing.
  8. A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
  9. The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.

Examples

“In his judgment in this case, the vice Chancellor Wigram refers to my decision in Woods v. Woods, in which I held, that under a gift of "all overflush to my wife towards her support and her family," the widow took the property subject to a trust for the family.”
“Every day there is an overflush that would be wasted but for the blessed tin can or the glass jar.”
“We have an overflush of money at present, but I hope to show the honourable member who is interesting himself in my affairs that the influence of money will dwindle rapidly.”
“[…] if my wife should marry then my will is that two thirds of my property not disposed of be sold and thirty pounds paid to each of my grand daughters Margaret Allen and Ivea Fox as they come of age and the other third to be sold at my wife's decease if the first sail amounts to sixty pound and any overflush of both sails to be equally divided between my four grand Children above named […]”
“Lady Albinia was allowed by all who knew her, to be one of the most admirable correctives to an overflush of youth .”
“Of life and life's significant loveliness, Be reconcilement for the easy loss Of tendril graces that climb about the heart, And smother it with overflush of bloom.”
“Margit , you've an overflush of sense in your composition. You put two thoughts where common folk such as me can only crush in one .”
“This is attributed to too wet a season and consequent overflush of feed .”
“Caution is necessary, for an overflush of imaginative enthusiasm can produce a situation in which the activity becomes an end in its own right rather than the means to an end.”
“We were also so close together there, and if someone grew something and they got a flush of something, or an overflush of it, they'd call the next person and say, 'Would you want this or can you use some of this?”
“If the bright ground be moved to and fro, this overflush of color may be, sometimes beautifully, shown, following the line or edge of the moving mass of strong color; and most distinct near the edge.”
“Sepals: Pale brown largely covered with maroon overflush.”
“Persian Princess— Petals deep velvety red with overflush of purple.”
“Pale greenish brown with heavy overflush of dark maroon-red at the base.”
“While an overflush of marvellous grace Would master, a-sudden, all his face, Till the delicate nostril curved and swelled, and the glance an eloquent sparkle held, And a sense of song would come and go, Such as dreamers watched by Ariel know.”
“There was an overflush and I tried to run straight into it. Most racers set up before a flush and turn into it.”
“This increase of typhoid fever was attributed to an overflush of the intercepting sewer in November, 1897, in consequence of which sewage was discharged into the Schuylkill river near the intake of the Queen Lane Pumping Station.”
“Every now and then the outpouring of a house, or the overflush of a drain, sent a richly laden river flowing by , and then the children were busy and happy.”
“A treatment volume, in field usage is currently 1100 gals of chemical plus 10,000 bbls. of the aquifer water as an overflush.”
“The overflush consisted of 100 bbls of uncrosslinked 3000 ppm polymer, followed by one wellbore volume (~150 bbls) plus 450 bbls crude behind pipe.”
“The first stage was 21.4 m³ crude oil preflush containing 2800-ppm paraffin dispersant, followed by 11.1 m³ treating mixture split into ten intervals with 0.5-m³ gelled oil pads followed by 19-m³ overflush containing 4000-ppm paraffin dispersant.”
“With this type of proppant transport, the proppant bank will not be destroyed during the overflush of the diverter.”
“On the other hand, overflush systems contain a high percentage of active resin, and an overflush is required to push the excess resin away from the wellbore area to reestablish permeability. Only a residual amount of resin saturation, which should be concentrated at the sand contact points, should remain following the overflush.”
“This method is also carried out in three main steps namely, preflush, main flush, and overflush.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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