Overdye vs Overdue - What's the difference?
overdye | overdue |
To dye (something already coloured) with another colour.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 7, author=Eric Wilson, title=A Gap Guy, Head to Toe, work=New York Times
, passage=There was a sweater dress in almost the same shade of blue as one shown at Doo.Ri; overdyed plaid shirts with contrasting plaid cuffs and collars for men like those at Duckie Brown; and lots of chunky knit gray cardigans like the ones popping up all over the place ?— just not at the same prices. }}
Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
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As a verb overdye
is to dye (something already coloured) with another colour.As an adjective overdue is
late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.overdye
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(en adjective)Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue . When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
