spill over
spill
noun[ C ]
us/spɪl/
an amount of something that has flowed or fallen out of a container:
The tanker started to leak oil and officials worried about a major oil spill.
A spill is also a fall:
Jockey Luis Ortega suffered a broken ankle in a spill at Hollywood Park yesterday.

Examples of spill

spill
The cold fusion claims of 1989, in contrast, attracted criticism that spilled over from the purely theoretic domain to the professional one.
Elemental analyses of this deteriorated wood showed high levels of copper, chromium, iron, and lead, suggesting that a caustic chemical spill had occurred.
The detection of unexpected coherent echoes by incoherent scatter radars raises important questions concerning the generation mechanisms that spill over into coherent radars.
Some benefit is obtained from 'spill-air' from the air-conditioned courtrooms and offices, which escapes into the atrium from the balconies.
The darkly stained surface soil in the depot area also suggests that other petroleum products were spilled at the site.
Little is known about the relationship between sub-surface interflow within the spill zone and hydrologic connection with the river.
Their empirical results show the effects of choosing different methods for implementing the linear scan, including instruction ordering, liveness analysis, renaming, and spilling heuristics.
Issues and problems relating to fishing, hydrocarbon exploration, tourism and communications clearly spill over national borders (regardless of whether those borders are actually contested).
If varieties developed abroad by private research spill in directly into the domestic market then domestic private investment could be discouraged.
Human infections are relatively rare accidental spill-overs from this wildlife cycle.
This difference suggests that there is some sort of difference on the mobilizing effects of oil spills and nuclear plant accidents.
Such fires which could trigger major oil spills.
This suggests a different (higher) volume of released fuel, a different timing for the fuel spill, or other factors related to the site itself.
Such observations and models are far removed from past assumptions that spills in polar regions either evaporate or remain frozen and trapped in the ground.
The overall layout of the book is at times unhelpful: tables and diagrams spill into margins and generally look cramped and untidy.
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