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overwrite
English
Etymology
From over- +? write.
Pronunciation
Verb
overwrite (third-person singular simple present overwrites, present participle overwriting, simple past overwrote, past participle overwritten)
- (transitive, computing) To destroy (older data) by recording new data over it.
- I accidentally saved my unwanted changes and overwrote the version of the document I wanted to keep.
- (transitive) To cover in writing; to write over the top of.
- (transitive, intransitive) To write too much.
- 2013, Richard Rudin, Trevor Ibbotson, Introduction to Journalism
- Many trainees consider that by increasing the length of the piece they will construct a good feature. This is often not the case and overwriting can lead to vague and muddled features that confuse the reader and ultimately lose their interest.
- 2013, Richard Rudin, Trevor Ibbotson, Introduction to Journalism
- (transitive, intransitive) To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.
- 1954, Edwin H. Ford, Edwin Emery, Highlights in the History of the American Press: A Book of Readings, U of Minnesota Press ?ISBN, page 367
- The Times of course has to pay the price of encyclopaedism by being often dreadfully overwritten, with long paragraphs connected by motley conjunctions.
- 1986, David Novarr, The Lines of Life: Theories of Biography, 1880-1970, Purdue University Press ?ISBN, page 162
- He overwrites constantly, but his detailed and understated one-paragraph description of Monroe's apartment in New York (pp. 216-18) injects high voltage into the de casibus tradition.
- 1989, Michael O'Neill, The human mind's imaginings: conflict and achievement in Shelley's poetry, Oxford University Press, USA
- That said, the passage just looked at anticipates rather than participates in greatness. It is too adjectival, a stylistic flaw which suggests an insistence more apparent in the ensuing lines (182-91), where one is torn between thinking that Shelley is overwriting and that he is staying close to a feverish intensity.
- 1954, Edwin H. Ford, Edwin Emery, Highlights in the History of the American Press: A Book of Readings, U of Minnesota Press ?ISBN, page 367
Translations
Noun
overwrite (plural overwrites)
- (computing) The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.
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merge
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin merg? (“to dip; dip in; plunge; sink down into; immerse; overwhelm”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m??d?/
- (US) IPA(key): /m?d?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?
Verb
merge (third-person singular simple present merges, present participle merging, simple past and past participle merged)
- (transitive) To combine into a whole.
- Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.
- 1791, Edmund Burke, letter to a member of the National Assembly
- to merge all natural and all social sentiment in inordinate vanity
- 1834, Thomas de Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (first published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)
- Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots.
- (intransitive) To combine into a whole.
- The two companies merged.
- To blend gradually into something else.
- The lanes of traffic merged.
Synonyms
- See synonyms at Thesaurus:coalesce.
Antonyms
- divide
- split
Derived terms
- merger
- mergeable
- mergeability
Related terms
- annex
Translations
Noun
merge (plural merges)
- The joining together of multiple sources.
- There are often accidents at that traffic merge.
- The merge of the two documents failed.
Translations
Anagrams
- emerg
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?rd?e
Verb
merge
- third-person singular present indicative of mergere
Anagrams
- germe
Latin
Verb
merge
- second-person singular present active imperative of merg?
Romanian
Alternative forms
- mere (regional, Transylvania)
Etymology
From Latin mergere, present active infinitive of merg? (itself ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (“to plunge, dip”)), with a unique sense developing in Balkanic or Eastern Romance. Compare Aromanian njergu, njeardziri; cf. also Albanian mërgoj (“to move away”) and Sardinian imbergere (“to push”). There may have been an intermediate sense of "to fall" in earlier Romanian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mer.d??e/
Verb
a merge (third-person singular present merge, past participle mers) 3rd conj.
- to go
- to walk
Conjugation
Derived terms
- mergere
- mers
See also
- duce
- umbla
- mi?ca
- deplasa
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