Overstride vs Overstrike - What's the difference?
overstride | overstrike |
to run or walk with an overly long stride
to stride (or to stand) over something
to excel or surpass
(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.
(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)