different between override vs overdrive

English

Etymology

From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferr?dan, equivalent to over- +? ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.

Pronunciation 1

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??.v???a?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /o?.v????a?d/

Verb

override (third-person singular simple present overrides, present participle overriding, simple past overrode, past participle overridden)

1. To ride across or beyond something.
2. To ride a horse too hard.
3. To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.

   The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.

   • The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.

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5. (object-oriented programming) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

   How the cat runs is defined in the method run() of the class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal.

Usage notes

• The form overrode is sometimes used as a past participle, in place of the standard overridden.

Translations

See also

• (programming): overload

Pronunciation 2

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.v???a?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?.v????a?d/

Noun

override (plural overrides)

1. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
2. A royalty.
3. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
4. (object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.

Translations

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English overdriven, from Old English oferdr?fan, equivalent to over- +? drive. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurdrieuwe (“to overdo, overstate”), Dutch overdrijven (“to exaggerate”), German Low German overdrieven, överdrieven (“to overdo, exaggerate”), German übertreiben (“to overdo, exaggerate”), Norwegian overdrive (“to exaggerate”).

Verb

overdrive (third-person singular simple present overdrives, present participle overdriving, simple past overdrove, past participle overdriven)

1. (transitive) To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.

Etymology 2

From over- +? drive From the gear over "D" (drive) in an automatic transmission vehicle.

Noun

overdrive (countable and uncountable, plural overdrives)

1. (dated) A gear, on an automobile, higher than the normal top gear.
2. A state of heightened activity.

Synonyms

(abbreviation)

• OD
• O/D
• O.D. / O. D.

Coordinate terms

• 4th gear (in an automatic transmission vehicle)
• 5th gear (in a manual transmission vehicle)

Derived terms

• (abbreviation) O. D. / O.D. / O/D / OD

Translations

See also

• hyperdrive
• understeer
• oversteer

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

over- +? drive; after German übertreiben

Verb

overdrive (imperative overdriv, present tense overdriver, simple past overdrev or overdreiv, past participle overdrevet, present participle overdrivende)

1. to exaggerate (overstate, to describe more than is fact)

Derived terms

• overdrivelse

Related terms

• overdreven

References

• “overdrive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

overdrive

1. neuter of overdriven

Verb

overdrive (present tense overdriv, past tense overdreiv, supine overdrive, past participle overdriven, present participle overdrivande, imperative overdriv)

1. Alternative form of overdriva