Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To ride across.
- v. To ride beyond.
- v. To trample on.
- v. To ride (a horse) too hard.
- v. To prevail over; conquer: Budgetary concerns overrode all other considerations.
- v. To declare null and void; set aside: overrode the President's veto.
- v. To counteract the normal operation of (an automatic control).
- v. To extend over; overlap.
- n. A sales commission collected by an executive in addition to the commission received by a subordinate salesperson.
- n. See royalty.
- n. A mechanism or system used to counteract an automatic control.
- n. The act or an instance of nullifying.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To ride over; hence, to trample down; supersede: as, a decision that overrides all previous decisions.
- To ride too much; fatigue by riding.
- To outride; pass in riding.
- In surgery, to overlap: said of a fragment of a broken bone in relation to another fragment.
Wiktionary
- v. To ride across or beyond something.
- v. To ride a horse too hard.
- v. To counteract the normal operation of something.
- v. software To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- n. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- n. A royalty.
- n. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down.
- v. To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; to nullify
- v. To countermand; to overrule.
- v. To replace (one system with another).
- v. obsolete To ride beyond; to pass; to outride.
- v. To ride too much; to ride, as a horse, beyond its strength.
WordNet 3.0
- v. prevail over
- n. the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something
- n. a manually operated device to correct the operation of an automatic device
- v. ride (a horse) too hard
- v. counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)
- v. rule against
Etymologies
- From over- + ride. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Cook hearing the testimony from rasmussen and harrell made it seem like a veto override is unlikely. they both spoke pretty passionately against the bill. rasmussen less so, but it seems like he doesn't ever really get passionate about anything, so who knows. blog comments powered by Disqus publicola nerds”
Five-Four Vote Sends Panhandling Law to Mayor for Promised Veto « PubliCola
“Michael says: cboldt: – the 2/3 for a veto override is explicitly in the Constitution.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Marshall Field v. Clark Preclude a Challenge to “Deem and Pass”?
“It is her ambition, her dream that once again override the need of people and the country, even her own party.”
“We don't want an override from the federal government.”
“One of the things that both Marty Lederman and Doug Kmiec agree on is that the President is authorized to disagree with -- and thus, presumably, to "override" -- OLC opinons that he/she objects to.”
“Among those difficulties are the Repurchase Agreements with their warehouse lenders which Goldstone mentioned, were five months into "override" - a nice term that implies over-extension, delinquency or a combination of both.”
“At page 3 of this Recount Report, the "Real Time Audit Log" (RTAL) reported a "password override," indicating that the machine had been entered during the election.”
“The vote on the override is a healthy public opportunity for Members of Congress to consider the reasons offered by the president for his veto.”
Sen. Robert Byrd: The President's Veto Threat Does Not Dictate the Law of Our Land
“• In one case, when Mercuri requested the information at the beginning of the RTAL roll be read aloud during the recount, the phrases "password override" and "PEB failure" were read from the audit log.”
“* In one case, when Mercuri requested the information at the beginning of the RTAL roll be read aloud during the recount, the phrases "password override" and "PEB failure" were read from the audit log.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘override’.
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It's Over: A Beginning
Terms that start with the string over-, beginning with overanxious.
Your entries are welcome.
overanxious, overachiever, oversimplified, overdone, overaccentuate, overact, overadjustment, overage, overaggressive, overalert, overalls, overambitious and 138 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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AFET - diplomacy
broker a peace ac..., client state, deadlocked peace ..., embassy, freeze, goodwill ambassador, hinterland, interfere in dome..., intervene personally, maintain technica..., mediation, no business as usual and 670 more...
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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Programming
class, function, method, instance, value, variable, boolean, if, else, while, for, elseif and 95 more...
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dyy's Words
ambivalence, irony, double-edged sword, paradox, struggle, plunge, buoy, pigeon-hole, ultimately, status quo, fuel, undermine and 230 more...
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common verb
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 150
tear up, ordeal, creditor, compensation, make ends meet, petition, settlement, settle, border, headlong, terrifying, tactic and 20 more...
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Gracie's Words
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