Override vs Topple - What's the difference?
override | topple |
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 push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something
* The massed crowds toppled the statue of the former dictator
to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so
* The pile of pennies began to topple
As verbs the difference between override and topple
is that override is to ride across or beyond something while topple is to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something.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.
