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Coverage vs Overcover - What's the difference?

coverage | overcover |

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)
  • An amount by which something or someone is covered.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • overcover

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover over.
  • The floodwaters soon overcovered the little hill.
  • 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 citation
  • , 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. }}