Oversight vs Overlight - What's the difference?
oversight | overlight |
An omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten.
Supervision or management.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To illuminate too brightly.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 15, author=Andy Newman, title=In Hospital Scrubs and Officer’s Blues, a Kinship, work=New York Times
, passage=Dozens of times over the next two years, Officer Yan’s work brought him through the sliding glass doors into the overlit clamor of Kings County’s emergency room, one of the busiest in the city. }}
excessive light
* Francis Bacon
As nouns the difference between oversight and overlight
is that oversight is an omission; something that is left out, missed or forgotten while overlight is excessive light.As a verb overlight is
to illuminate too brightly.As an adjective overlight is
(dated) too light or frivolous; giddy.oversight
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Noun
(en noun)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}
overlight
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- An overlight maketh the eyes dazzle .