overcode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overcodes
form: overcoding
form: overcoded
form: overcoded
Etymology: From over- + code.
Senses: examples: text: Social interaction would be the place to study how people learn these cultural codes or reasoning structures, which is related to the human ability to overcode meaning in ways that become conventional (Eco 1976).
ref: 1984, Semiotica - Volumes 50-51, page 367:
text: It is equally self-defeating to reduce people to objects that may be possessed, or to interpret (i.e., overcode, classify, categorize) people or books.
ref: 1998, Vicki Mahaffey, States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and the Irish Experiment, →ISBN:
text: After Skyler asks Walt if he brought his cellphone and he responds, “Which one,” she tells him that she wants him out of the house. In so doing, she tries to subdivide the domestic home and overcode their relationship with rigid divisions.
ref: 2015, Bridget Roussell Cowlishaw, Masculinity in Breaking Bad: Critical Perspectives, →ISBN, page 177:
text: Humans will never completely overcode non-human multiplicities.
ref: 2017, Jean Hillier, Stretching Beyond the Horizon, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: To use as an overcode for.
examples: text: In one example, she describes an advertisement depictin a nude female torso in profile. Wegenstein suggests that in this particular advertisement, the breasts overcode the body in a way that the face previously had reign.
ref: 2007, M. Fenske, Tattoos in American Visual Culture, →ISBN, page 105:
text: Disability suties in education, as an academic field, or the disability rights movement, might be considered molar discourses that overcode the affective everyday experience of disability education.
ref: 2014, Anna Hickey-Moody, Vicki Crowley, Disability Matters: Pedagogy, Media and Affect, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Deleuze and Guattari (1987: 9) also recognise that although powerful sign systems may dominate or overcode a multiplicity, such overcoding will inevitably be temporary as 'multiplicities are defined by the outside: by the abstract line, the line of flight or deterritorialisation according to which they change in nature'.
ref: 2017, Jean Hillier, Stretching Beyond the Horizon, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: To act as an overcode for.
examples: text: One of the greatest sources of unreliability is the constant error introduced by the observer because of distortion of his perceptions created by his own needs or values. An observer who sharply disapproves of certain leadership practices, for example, will have difficulty in preventing a bias. He will tend to overcode those categories which best describe his feelings.
ref: 1951, Research Methods in Social Relations: Selected techniques, page 530:
text: Always overcode. It is better to put both codes down if you have any question about which category is most appropriate.
ref: 1995, United States. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: final report:
text: But the Office of the Inspector General study disagreed, saying that doctors overcode for these procedures, and the 29% of errors result in a $20 billion overpayment by this federal program.
ref: 2001, Medical Billing Secrets: Building Your Successful Home-Based Business, →ISBN:
text: Similarly, EHRs may encourage overcoding, although that is not solely in the domain of the responsibility of an EHR. The desire to make more money in a productivity-driven system can test the ethics of any clinician.
ref: 2016, Michael Wasserman, The Business of Geriatrics, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: To use a particular code or set of codes too much.
examples: text: Coding should be done with great exactness: it is better to "overcode" than to "undercode."
ref: 1972, Alice Schlegel, Male dominance and female autonomy:
text: We had an increased percentage of disagreement at the beginning of her ratings since she was overcoding and making too many ratings, due to a misunderstanding about the coding of responses regarding time.
ref: 1978, Kay Hartshorn, Perceived Effects of Graduate School on Couples' Relationships:
text: Don't overcode. Take care to avoid the dangers of “coding fetishism” (Richards, 2009, pp. 109–110), a compulsive activity of researchers who feel they can't think about data unless it is coded.
ref: 2012, Lyn Richards, Janice M. Morse, README FIRST for a User's Guide to Qualitative Methods, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: To code too many things or include too many codes in a coding system.