Override vs Veto - What's the difference?
override | veto |
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.
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
An invocation of that right.
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
* George Eliot
To use a against.
As verbs the difference between override and veto
is that override is to ride across or beyond something while veto is to use a veto against.As nouns the difference between override and veto
is that override is a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control while veto is a political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.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)veto
English
(wikipedia veto)Noun
(en-noun)- This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family.
