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Override vs Overpass - What's the difference?

override | overpass |

As verbs the difference between override and overpass

is that override is to ride across or beyond something while overpass is to pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road.

As nouns the difference between override and overpass

is that override is a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control while overpass is a section of a road or path that es over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.

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.

    • overpass

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A section of a road or path that es over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.
    • The homeless man had built a little shelter, complete with cook-stove, beneath a concrete overpass .

    Synonyms

    flyover (UK)

    Antonyms

    underpass (US&UK) subway (UK)

    See also

    * underpass * overbridge

    Verb

    (es)
  • To pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road.
    • Gillian watched the overpassing shoppers on the second floor of the mall, as she relaxed in the bench on the ground floor.
  • To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal.
    • (Robert Browning)
    Marshall was really overpassing his authority when he ordered the security guards to fire their tasers at the trespassers.
    The precocious student had really overpassed her peers, and was reading books written for children several years older.
  • To disregard, skip, or miss something.
    • "Don't overpass those cheeses; they're really quite excellent!" gushed Terry, pointing to the buffet table.
  • * Milton
    • All the beauties of the East / He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed .

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