Overtaker vs Overtakes - What's the difference?
overtaker | overtakes |
One who overtakes.
* 1872 , Nautical Magazine
(overtake)
To pass a more slowly moving object.
To catch up with, but not pass, a more slowly moving vehicle, animal etc.
(economics) To become greater than something else
To occur unexpectedly
As a noun overtaker
is one who overtakes.As a verb overtakes is
(overtake).overtaker
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Noun
(en noun)- That is to say, a fast steamer overtaking a slow steamer or a sailing ship, shall not run her down; and if the overtaker does run into the overtaken, then the overtaker is responsible.
overtakes
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*overtake
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Verb
- "I overtook' and passed the doctor between Woking and Send." '''1898 ,
- "Our plans were overtaken by events."
