Surmount vs Override - What's the difference?
surmount | override |
to get over; to overcome
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 10.
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 surmount and override
is that surmount is to get over; to overcome 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.surmount
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Verb
(en verb)- this difficulty may perhaps be surmounted by care and art
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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.