Meaning

6 senses
  1. (transitive)To ride across or beyond something.

    ride (a horse) too hard

  2. (transitive)To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.

    prevail over

  3. (transitive)To ride a horse too hard.

  4. (intransitive, transitive)To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.

    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.

    übersteuern

    counteract the normal operation of (an automatic gear shift in a vehicle)

  5. (transitive)To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system

    Manual controls allow the user to override the camera's default settings.

  6. (transitive)To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

    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.

    überschreiben

    переопределитьpereopredelitʹ

Examples

14 sentences
  1. One's own will overrides any command.

    deDer eigene Wille geht vor jedem Befehl.

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  2. Damiano refused to approve the override command.

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  3. The contract has an override clause specifying which terms take precedence.

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  4. Use the manual override.

    ruИспользуй ручное управление.

    deSchalte auf Handbetrieb um.

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  5. Compassion should override judgment.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
(software) To define a new behaviour of a method:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to counteract the normal operation of something:
(software) To define a new behaviour of a method:

Origin

From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cog

From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.

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Forms

overrides, overriding, overrode, overridden
Base formoverride · to override
3rd person singularoverrides
Present participleoverriding
Past simpleoverrode
Past participleoverridden

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoverride
he, she, itoverrides

Past simpleLesson

all personsoverrode

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave overridden
he, she, ithas overridden

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill override

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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