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OVERRIDDEN

Definition: OVERRIDDEN

OVERRIDDEN

Past participle

1. Of Override

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "OVERRIDDEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)


Crosswords: OVERRIDDEN

Specialty definitions using "OVERRIDDEN": fault inliersegmented address space. (references)
Etymologies containing "OVERRIDDEN": Override. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: OVERRIDDEN

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Jordan

His veto power may be overridden by a two-thirds vote of both houses of the National Assembly. (references)

Portugal

Presidential powers include appointing the prime minister and Council of Ministers, in which the president must be guided by the assembly election results; dismissing the prime minister; dissolving the assembly to call early elections; vetoing legislation, which may be overridden by the assembly; and declaring a state of war or siege. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: OVERRIDDEN

"OVERRIDDEN" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "OVERRIDDEN" is used about 91 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)100%9134,491

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: OVERRIDDEN

Language Translations for "OVERRIDDEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

过量负载 (overriding, Overrode). (various references)

   

German

  

nichtig gemacht, überschrieben (captioned, overwritten, transcribed). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

semmibe vesz (disregard, slight, to despise, to flout, to hold sg cheap, to ignore, to jibe, to pooh-pooh, to slight, to slur), megsemmisít (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, cancel, efface, elide, nullify, remit, repeal, to annihilate, to annul, to cancel, to destroy, to disfigure, to eliminate, to eradicate, to exterminate, to give sy a trouncing, to nullify, to overwhelm, to put down, to put to rout, to repeal, to reverse, to rout, to set aside, to smite hip and thigh), legázol (-ridden, -rode, to override), hatástalanít (deactivate, to deactivate, to defuse, to kill, to neutralize, to stultify), agyonhajszol (overdrive, -ridden, -rode, to emboss, to jade, to override, to overtire, to overwork, to wind, wind), átgázol (-ridden, -rode, run over, to override, to wade). (various references)

   

Italian

  

intestato (intestate). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

무시하" (Disregarded, Neglected). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

overriddenay

   

Spanish

  

pp de override. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: OVERRIDDEN

Misspellings

"OVERRIDDEN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: overriden, Verlinden. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "OVERRIDDEN"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "OVERRIDDEN" (pronounced ō"verri"dun)
5-r i" d u nridden.
4-i" d u nhidden.
3-d u nabandon, bedridden, beholden, broaden, burden, cordon, deaden, downtrodden, embolden, forbidden, garden, gladden, golden, harden, Holden, Jordan, laden, leaden, Linden, Loden, Louden, madden, maiden, menhaden, Myrmidon, olden, overburden, pardon, prekindergarten, prostaglandin, redden, sadden, sodden, Soldan, sudden, tendon, unburden, warden, widen, wooden.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: OVERRIDDEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-i-n-o-r-r-v"

-1 letter: overdried.

-2 letters: override, redriven.

-3 letters: derider, derived, deriver, dernier, dovened, nerdier, nervier, onerier, ordered, overdid, redried, redrive, redrove, vernier.

-4 letters: denied, denier, deride, derive, devein, devoid, devoir, dinero, driven, driver, droned, droner, droved, drover, endive, envied, envier, eroded, indeed, ironed, ironer, nereid, nerved, nevoid, nodder, oreide, overed, redden, redder, redone, reined, reived, reiver, rended.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-i-n-o-r-r-v"
 

+2 letters: overstridden.

 

+4 letters: overdetermined.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OVERRIDDEN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 56 45 52 52 49 44 44 45 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    ...-    .    .-.    .-.    ..    -..    -..    .    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010010 01001001 01000100 01000100 01000101 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#82 &#73 &#68 &#68 &#69 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0056 0045 0052 0052 0049 0044 0044 0045 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

49563952524338383948

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Non-English Dictionaries with "OVERRIDDEN"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Chinese

字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, kínai, cinese, 중국, chino

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , német, tedesco, 독일, alemán

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ungar, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, húngaro

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzione意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italienisch, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아

Korean

사 , 의, 번역韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국, coreano

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducción西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, spanisch, spanyol, spagnolo, 스페인, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, angol, inglese, 영국, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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