different between override vs overside

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

1880, from the phrase over the side (of a ship), equivalent to over +? side.

Adjective

overside (not comparable)

1. Located or positioned over the side, especially of a ship.

   overside cargo

2. On the opposite side.

Adverb

overside (not comparable)

1. Over the side.

   The cargo was dumped overside by the crew.

Etymology 2

From over- +? side.

Noun

overside (plural oversides)

1. The side facing up or positioned above; the topside; surface.
   • 1882, English mechanic and world of science: Volume 34 - Page 547:

     […] that is, glued to the underside of one card and the overside of the next, thus keeping their edges close and parallel to each other, […]

   • 1981, Berit Wells, Opuscula Romana XIII: Volume 13:

     While the overside of the tiles was well smoothed, the underside was in general left crude and rough.

   • 1999, Pynchon notes: Issues 40-41:

     This chapter contains some of the most humorous writing on the overside of the narrative, and the most serious on the underside.

2. The reverse or opposite side of something.

   the overside of the record

Antonyms

• underside

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From over- +? side

Noun

overside f or m (definite singular oversida or oversiden, indefinite plural oversider, definite plural oversidene)

1. upper side, topside

Antonyms

• underside

References

• “overside” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From over- +? side

Noun

overside f (definite singular oversida, indefinite plural oversider, definite plural oversidene)

1. upper side, topside

Antonyms

• underside

References

• “overside” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.