Override vs Surpass - What's the difference?
override | surpass |
To ride across or beyond something.
To ride a horse too hard.
To counteract the normal operation of something.
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(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.
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.
To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.
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As verbs the difference between override and surpass
is that override is to ride across or beyond something while surpass is to go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.As a noun override
is a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.override
English
Verb
- The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law .
- The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.
- How the cat runs is defined in the method
run()of the classCat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass calledMammal.
Usage notes
* The form overrode is sometimes used as a past participle, in place of the standard overridden.See also
* (programming) overloadNoun
(en noun)surpass
English
Verb
(es)- The former problem student surpassed his instructor's expectations and scored top marks on his examination.
- The heavy rains threatened to surpass the capabilities of the levee, endangering the town on the other side.
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