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Muting vs Override - What's the difference?

muting | override |

As verbs the difference between muting and override

is that muting is while override is to ride across or beyond something.

As nouns the difference between muting and override

is that muting is the dung of birds while override is a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.

muting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The dung of birds.
  • * Charles Darwin
    • It is more surprising that instinct should lead small nesting birds to remove their broken eggs and the early mutings

    override

    English

    Verb

  • To ride across or beyond something.
  • To ride a horse too hard.
  • To counteract the normal operation of something.
    • The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law .
  • *
    • The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.
  • (programming, object-oriented) 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.

    See also

    * (programming) overload

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
  • A royalty.
  • A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.