Outclass vs Override - What's the difference?
outclass | override |
to surpass something or somebody else, so as to appear to be in a higher class
* In the IQ test, he outclassed all the other applicants
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To ride across or beyond something.
To ride a horse too hard.
To counteract the normal operation of something.
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(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.
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.
As verbs the difference between outclass and override
is that outclass is to surpass something or somebody else, so as to appear to be in a higher class while override is to ride across or beyond something.As a noun override is
a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.outclass
English
Verb
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override
English
Verb
- The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law .
- The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.
- How the cat runs is defined in the method
run()of the classCat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass calledMammal.