different between overtake vs overweigh

English

Etymology

From Middle English overtaken, equivalent to over- +? take.

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /??v?(?)?te?k/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /o?v??te?k/
  • Rhymes: -e?k
• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /???v?(?)te?k/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?o?v?te?k/

Verb

overtake (third-person singular simple present overtakes, present participle overtaking, simple past overtook, past participle overtaken)

1. To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic).

   Antonym: undertake (to pass a slower moving vehicle on the curbside)

2. (economics) To become greater than something else
3. To occur unexpectedly; take by surprise; surprise and overcome; carry away

Translations

See also

• exceed
• surpass
  • Not to be confused with take over.

Noun

overtake (plural overtakes)

1. An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver.

Anagrams

• take over, takeover

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

overtake (present tense overtek, past tense overtok, past participle overteke, passive infinitive overtakast, present participle overtakande, imperative overtak)

1. Alternative form of overtaka

English

Etymology

From Middle English overwe?en; equivalent to over- +? weigh. First known attestation in the Ancrene Wisse ("luue ouerweið hit").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?(?)?we?/

Verb

overweigh (third-person singular simple present overweighs, present participle overweighing, simple past and past participle overweighed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To exceed in weight, outweigh; to preponderate; to weigh down.
   • c. 1603-04, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II scene iv^[1]

     My unsoil’d name, the austereness of my life, / My vouch against you, and my place i’ the state, / Will so your accusation overweigh, / That you shall stifle in your own report, / And smell of calumny.

   • 1823, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

     I beg permission to have a few witnesses examined concerning my character, and if their testimony shall not overweigh my supposed guilt, I must be condemned, although I would pledge my salvation on my innocence.