Override vs Overwrite - What's the difference?
override | overwrite |
To ride across or beyond something.
To ride a horse too hard.
To counteract the normal operation of something.
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(programming, object-oriented) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
A royalty.
A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
(computing) To destroy old data by recording new data over it.
To cover in writing.
As verbs the difference between override and overwrite
is that override is to ride across or beyond something while overwrite is to destroy old data by recording new data over it.As a noun override
is a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.override
English
Verb
- The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law .
- The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.
- How the cat runs is defined in the method
run()of the classCat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass calledMammal.
