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Overrode vs Overrobe - What's the difference?

overrode | overrobe |

As a verb overrode

is (override).

As a noun overrobe is

a robe designed to be worn over other clothing, particularly another robe.

overrode

English

Verb

(head)
  • (override)

    • 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.

    • overrobe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A robe designed to be worn over other clothing, particularly another robe.
  • * 2005 , Hilari Bell, Fall of a Kingdom , Simon Pulse (2003), ISBN 141691434X, pages 8-9:
    • The late-afternoon sun lit the expensive, brocaded silk of her overrobe and the almost equally expensive, fine-woven linen underrobe beneath it.
  • * 2006 , Kate Elliott, Spirit Gate , Tor (2007), ISBN 9780765349309, page 510:
    • He wore a magnificent overrobe of iridescent green silk, embroidered with orange feathers and gold starbursts along the hem and sleeves and neckline.
  • * 2010 , William C. Dietz, Halo: The Flood , Tor (2010), ISBN 9780765328335, unnumbered page:
    • He wore a red overrobe , a gold underrobe, and somewhere, hidden beneath all the fabric, an antigrav belt which served to keep his body suspended one full unit off the deck.