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Overstride vs Overstrike - What's the difference?

overstride | overstrike |

In transitive terms the difference between overstride and overstrike

is that overstride is to excel or surpass while overstrike is to strike (something) too hard.

As verbs the difference between overstride and overstrike

is that overstride is to run or walk with an overly long stride while overstrike is to overreach oneself while striking.

As a noun overstrike is

a coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once.

overstride

English

Verb

  • to run or walk with an overly long stride
  • to stride (or to stand) over something
  • to excel or surpass
  • overstrike

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete, reflexive) To overreach oneself while striking.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • *:For as he in his rage him overstrooke , / He, ere he could his weapon backe repaire, / His side all bare and naked overtooke, / And with his mortal steel quite through the body strooke.
  • To cover up (a design, mark etc.) by stamping another on top of it; to superimpose a mark or logo on (a coin, stamp, etc.).
  • To strike (something) too hard.
  • Noun

  • (numismatics) A coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once.
  • (typography) The printing of one character over another, as -'' on top of ''L'' to produce ''? .
  • (computing, uncountable) overtype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them)
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