Oversets vs Oversees - What's the difference?
oversets | oversees |
(overset)
(obsolete) To set over (something); to cover.
To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset.
(obsolete) To overwhelm; to overthrow, defeat.
To physically disturb (someone); to make nauseous, upset.
To knock over, capsize, overturn.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.104:
To unbalance (a situation, state etc.); to confuse, to put into disarray.
* 1843 , '', book 3, chapter XIII, ''Democracy
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 152:
*:‘So this is the creature who oversets the household and suborns servants and clergymen,’ d'Anton said.
(printing) to set (type or copy) in excess of what is needed; to set too much type for a given space.
To translate.
*1879 , The Saturday magazine - Volume 1 - Page 87:
*1910 , Leonard Bacon, Joseph Parrish Thompson, Henry Ward Beecher, The Independent - Volume 69 - Page 1220 :
*2006 , John David Pizer, The idea of world literature :
To overfill.
(oversee)
(literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
(figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
To inspect, examine
(obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
* , II.ix:
To observe secretly or unintentionally.
As verbs the difference between oversets and oversees
is that oversets is (overset) while oversees is (oversee).oversets
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(head)overset
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- (Mortimer)
- A reef between them also now began / To show its boiling surf and bounding spray, / But finding no place for their landing better, / They ran the boat for shore,—and overset her.
- Thus has the Tailor-art, so to speak, overset itself, like most other things; changed its centre-of-gravity; whirled suddenly over from zenith to nadir.
- Overset into English, after the spirits and measures of the anthentical; by Dr. Heinrich Krauss, Ph.D., and so wider.
- They should be overset into English so as to reach a wider public here, for even his elementary descriptions of American universities, would not be so superfluous to any of us as we think, [...]
- The thought and its expression—these are the two factors which must solve the problem; and it matters not how much we translate or overset —as the Germans felicitously say—so long as we go no deeper and do not grasp at what all literatures have in common.
- (Howell)
Anagrams
*oversees
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(head)oversee
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(transitive)- It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.
- Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.
- Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee .
