Supplant vs Override - What's the difference?
supplant | override |
To take the place of; to replace, to supersede.
(obsolete) To uproot, to remove violently.
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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.
As verbs the difference between supplant and override
is that supplant is to take the place of; to replace, to supersede while override is to ride across or beyond something.As a noun override is
a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.supplant
English
Alternative forms
* supplaunt (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- Will online dictionaries ever supplant paper dictionaries?
- Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.
Synonyms
* (replace) dethrone, oust, replace, supersede, take over from * (remove violently) uproot, wrench outoverride
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.