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Override vs Overside - What's the difference?

override | overside |

As nouns the difference between override and overside

is that override is a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control while overside is the side facing up or positioned above; the top side; surface.

As a verb override

is to ride across or beyond something.

As an adjective overside is

located or positioned over the side, especially of a ship.

As an adverb overside is

over the side.

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.

    • overside

    English

    Etymology 1

    1880, from the phrase over the side (of a ship) , equivalent to .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • located or positioned over the side, especially of a ship
    • overside cargo
  • being on the opposite side
    • I seldom listen to the overside songs of this record.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • over the side
    • The cargo was dumped overside by the crew.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The side facing up or positioned above; the top side; surface.
  • *1882 , English mechanic and world of science: Volume 34 - Page 547:
    • [...] that is, glued to the underside of one card and the overside of the next, thus keeping their edges close and parallel to each other, [...]
  • *1981 , Berit Wells, Opuscula Romana XIII: Volume 13 :
    • While the overside of the tiles was well smoothed, the underside was in general left crude and rough.
  • *1999 , Pynchon notes: Issues 40-41:
    • This chapter contains some of the most humorous writing on the overside of the narrative, and the most serious on the underside.
  • The reverse or opposite side (of something).
    • the overside of the record
    Antonyms
    * (l)