override
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.
Base: ride
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overrides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overriding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overrode
pos: verb
tags: past
form: overridden
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overrides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To ride across or beyond something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Around 50 people were evacuated from a rush-hour London Overground service on October 12, after an eight-car train overrode the buffers at Enfield Town station.
gloss: To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Separation of the caboose from the VAN train had caused the train to go into emergency braking and when Extra 3119 West struck the third rack car, the car overrode the locomotive, destroyed the remaining superstructure, and caused the locomotive to overturn the north rail. The near-instantaneous derailment of the rest of the train followed immediately.
gloss: To ride a horse too hard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: In automotive design, safety should override lesser factors such as cosmetics and corner-cutting.
Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.
The power of the stories overrides everything else. The quiet starkness of the telling: […]
The Federal Aviation Administration initially overrode its own engineers’ recommendations in 2019 to ground the Boeing 737 Max after a second fatal crash, according to a new watchdog report.
“The first time I was overridden, on the Congressional district map, I said the bill was illegal and I expected the courts would throw it out. The courts have done so,” Edwards said in his statement Tuesday. “Today, I was overridden for the second time… I expect the courts to throw out this unconstitutional bill, as well.”
Republicans in the North Carolina House pushed through a measure restricting the powers of the incoming governor and other Democrats, overriding outgoing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto. […] The state Senate voted to override the governor’s veto last week.
gloss: To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Manual controls allow the user to override the camera's default settings.
gloss: To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How the cat runs is defined in the method run() of the class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal.
gloss: A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
pos: noun
examples: The bill passed with 72 members voting for the override and 46 against.
gloss: A royalty.
pos: noun
gloss: A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
pos: noun
gloss: A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
pos: noun
Related words: overload
Derived words: nonoverridability
nonoverridable
nonoverridden
overridability
overridable
overrideable
override one's commission
overrider
unoverridable
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