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Overlit vs Overnight - What's the difference?

overlit | overnight |

As verbs the difference between overlit and overnight

is that overlit is past tense of overlight while overnight is to stay overnight; to spend the night. {{defdate |from 19th c.}.

As an adverb overnight is

throughout the night.

As an adjective overnight is

occurring between dusk and dawn.

As a noun overnight is

items delivered or completed overnight.

overlit

English

Verb

(head)
  • (overlight)

    • overlight

    English

    Verb

  • To illuminate too brightly.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 15, author=Andy Newman, title=In Hospital Scrubs and Officer’s Blues, a Kinship, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Dozens of times over the next two years, Officer Yan’s work brought him through the sliding glass doors into the overlit clamor of Kings County’s emergency room, one of the busiest in the city. }}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated) Too light or frivolous; giddy.

    • Noun

  • excessive light
  • * Francis Bacon
    • An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle .

    overnight

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Throughout the night.
  • :
  • *
  • *:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight , waved with hot tongs;.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 20, author=Nina Bernstein, work=New York Times, title= Storm Bared a Lack of Options for the Homeless in New York
    • , passage=Overnight , as the storm bore down on urban flood zones, city officials ramped up emergency spaces to shelter thousands more people, mostly in public schools and colleges.}}
  • During a single night.
  • :
  • In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
  • :

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Occurring between dusk and dawn.
    • ''The overnight ferry docked at 10AM.
  • Complete before the next morning.
    • Don't expect results overnight .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stay overnight; to spend the night.
  • * 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 128:
    • His visits to Paris (which he had not allowed his son to visit until he was a teenager) became less frequent too: he never over-nighted there, for example, after 1744.
  • (US) To send something for delivery the next day.
    • We can overnight you the documents for signature.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Items delivered or completed overnight.
    • Have you looked at the overnights yet?
  • An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
  • (obsolete) The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.
    • (Shakespeare)