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Overo vs Overgo - What's the difference?

overo | overgo |

As nouns the difference between overo and overgo

is that overo is a pinto horse with white-over-dark body markings while overgo is (genetics) a sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.

As a verb overgo is

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overo

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia overo)
  • A pinto horse with white-over-dark body markings.
  • See also

    * sabino * tobiano ----

    overgo

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) overgon, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To pass (a figurative barrier); to transgress.
  • *1882 , John Payne, trans., The Thousand Nights and One Night , vol 3:
  • *:How many an one in its vanities hath gloried and taken pride, / Till froward and arrogant thus he grew and did all bounds o'ergo !
  • *1818 , John Keats, Endymion , II:
  • *:He did not rave, he did not stare aghast, / For all those visions were o'ergone , and past [...].
  • To spread across (something); to overrun.
  • To go over, move over the top of, travel across the surface of; to traverse, travel through.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iii:
  • *:forward rode, and kept her readie way / Along the strond, which as she ouer-went , / She saw bestrowed all with rich aray / Of pearles and pretious stones of great assay [...].
  • *1625 , Francis Bacon, The Praise of Knowledge :
  • *:The fixed stars overgo Saturn, and so in them and all the rest, all is but one motion, and the nearer the earth the slower – a motion also whereof air and water do participate, though much interrupted.
  • To go beyond; to exceed, surpass.
  • *1597 , William Shakespeare, Richard III , II.2:
  • *:O, what cause have I, / Thine being but a moiety of my grief, / To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!
  • *1992 , Domna C Stanton, Discourses of Sexuality , p. 177:
  • *:He seeks to persuade the queen not merely to emulate the Amazons' vigilant territoriality but to overgo them by emulating the Spaniards' rampant invasiveness.
  • To get the better of; to overcome, overpower.
  • *1594 , Christopher Marlowe, Dido, Queen of Carthage , Act I:
  • *:Both barking Scylla, and the sounding rocks, / The Cyclops' shelves, and grim Ceraunia's seat, / Have you o'ergone , and yet remain alive.
  • (obsolete) To overtake, go faster than.
  • *1598 , George Chapman, trans. Homer, Iliad , book VI:
  • *:If it chance, that we be overgone / By his more swiftness, urge him still to run upon our fleet, / And (lest he 'scape us to the town) still let thy javelin meet / With all his offers of retreat.
  • Etymology 2

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    Noun

    (overgoes)
  • (genetics) A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.
  • *1999 , Birren & Green, Genome Analysis , p. 207:
  • *:Mixtures of such specific "overgo " probes can be used to screen arrayed library filters by DNA-DNA hybridization [...].
  • *2004 , Detrich, Westerfield & Zon, The Zebrafish: Genetics, Genomics and Informatics , p. 318:
  • *:Hybridization of multiple overgoes produces many clones, perhaps 40 clones at a time.
  • Anagrams

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