overnight
Part of speech: adv
adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English overnyght, from Old English ofer niht (“through the night, overnight”), equivalent to over + night. Verbal use (late 19th c.) may have been influenced by German übernachten (16th c.), though it could also have developed independently. Compare also Dutch overnachten (“to overnight”), Middle Low German ȫvernachten (“to overnight”), West Frisian oernachtsje (“to overnight”), Saterland Frisian uurnoachtje (“to overnight”).
Base: over
Inflected forms:
form: o'ernight
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: over night
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: overnite
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: o'ernight
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: over night
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: overnite
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: overnights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overnighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overnighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overnighted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: o'ernight
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: over night
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: overnite
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: overnights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: o'ernight
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: over night
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: overnite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Let it run overnight and we'll check on it in the morning.
They delivered the package overnight.
I have heard of a man, who having been drunk overnight, and passed over a very narrow Bridge, which no sober Horseman durst attempt, being brought the next day to see what danger he went through, fell down in a swoon upon the sight of it.
[…]then put the glass into a damp cellar, on sand, and the gold will overnight shoot into crystals, which take out, and let them dissolve again in distilled vinegar[…].
There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].
Overnight, as the storm bore down on urban flood zones, city officials ramped up emergency spaces to shelter thousands more people, mostly in public schools and colleges.
gloss: In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
pos: adv
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: The change seemed to happen overnight.
Overnight, the vivacious young actress became a caricature, a relic of the previous decade, whose hard-partying socialite image seemed frivolous and out of touch amid the ensuing years of the Great Depression.
"You can't overnight turn everyone into an expert on everything. [...]."
gloss: Occurring between dusk and dawn.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The overnight ferry docked at 10 a.m.
gloss: Complete before the next morning.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Don't expect overnight delivery.
Federal Express handled 225 million overnight and second-day packages, cornering a 50-percent share of the entire domestic overnight market[…].
I like cold overnight oats eaten straight from the fridge.
gloss: For which participants stay overnight.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They sent their kids to overnight camp.
We went on an overnight ski trip.
Overnight visitation in the park is controlled by the National Park Service and limited by the availability of lodging and camping facilities.
gloss: To stay overnight; to spend the night.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His visits to Paris (which he had not allowed his son to visit until he was a teenager) became less frequent too: he never over-nighted there, for example, after 1744.
gloss: To send something for delivery the next day.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: We can overnight you the documents for signature.
gloss: An item delivered or completed overnight.
pos: noun
examples: Have you looked at the overnights yet?
gloss: An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
pos: noun
examples: Some will also have to work less coveted schedules like overnights and weekends just to start building their career and demo tape.
gloss: Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Word spread that Barney was on his way out to the location and that the Nielsen overnights had been terrific, or why else would he come.
The TV critic had the results of the June rating survey by Arbitron and Nielsen. […] He has the hard numbers on the June book plus the recent Nielsen overnights.
gloss: The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Pardon me, madam:
If I had given you this at overnight,
She might have been o'erta'en
Derived words: girl rented overnight
nonovernight
overnight diaper
overnighter
overnight nappy
overnight bag
overnight case
overnight oats
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