Coverage vs Overcover - What's the difference?
coverage | overcover |
An amount by which something or someone is covered.
The amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television.
(lb) The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
To cover over.
To give too much coverage (as for example on television).
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 3, author=Nicholas Kristof, title=Bright Continent, work=New York Times
, passage=You’ll never persuade me that we’ve overcovered the slaughter in Congo — our sin is that we didn’t scream enough, not that we screamed too much. }}
As a noun coverage
is an amount by which something or someone is covered.As a verb overcover is
to cover over.coverage
English
Noun
(wikipedia coverage)- Don't go to lunch if we don't have enough coverage for the help-desk phones.
- Before laying sod on that clay, the ground needs two inches of coverage with topsoil.
- The enemy fire is increasing – can we get some immediate coverage from those bunkers?
- There are overlapping coverages on your insurance policies.
overcover
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Verb
(en verb)- The floodwaters soon overcovered the little hill.
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