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Definition: OVERRODE |
OVERRODEImperative1. Of Override |
Date "OVERRODE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
Crosswords: OVERRODE |
| Etymologies containing "OVERRODE": Override. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Curiosity overrode fear in the faces of these English children who took shelter in a ditch during a German air raid in 1940. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Azerbaijan | In April local police in Ganja banned a Baptist church from holding services; the head of the SCWRS overrode this ban and the church resumed services in December. (references) |
Economic History | Sierra Leone | A group of senior military officers overrode this action by seizing control of the government on March 23, arresting Brigadier Lansana, and suspending the constitution. (references) |
Political Rights | Mongolia | Parliament overrode the veto and the amendments went into effect. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "OVERRODE" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "OVERRODE" is used about 40 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "OVERRODE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 过量负载 (Overridden, overriding). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | machte nichtig. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 무시했다. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | overrodeay аннулировать (abate, annul, avoided, cancel, canseal, disannul, dissolve, invalidate, invalidates, nullify, override, overriden, quash, render null, rescind, vacate, void). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"OVERRODE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Omerod, overlode. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "OVERRODE" (pronounced ō"verrō"d) |
| 3 | -r ō" d | bestrode, crowed, erode, road, rode, rowed, strode. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: overdoer. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-o-o-r-r-v" | |
-1 letter: redrove. | |
-2 letters: drover, overdo, overed. | |
-3 letters: drove, erode, erred, order, rodeo, roved, rover. | |
-4 letters: deer, dere, doer, door, dore, dorr, dove, dree, ever, odor, ordo, over, rede, redo, reed, rode, rood, rove, veer. | |
-5 letters: dee, dev, doe, dor, ere, err, eve, ode, ore, red, ree, rev, rod, roe, vee, voe. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-o-o-r-r-v" | |
+1 letter: overdoers, overdrove, regrooved. | |
+2 letters: overlorded, overstrode, overworked. | |
+3 letters: overbrowsed, overcropped, overcrowded, overfavored, overlabored, overpowered, overproduce, overrespond. | |
+4 letters: codiscoverer, controverted, overborrowed, overdecorate, overenamored, overenrolled, overgoverned, overinformed, overoperated, overproduced, overproduces, overpromised, overpromoted, overreported, overresponds. | |
+5 letters: codiscoverers, overconcerned, overcorrected, overcredulous, overdecorated, overdecorates, overnourished, overorganized, overprocessed, overprogramed, overprotected, overresponded, reprovisioned, videorecorder. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 56 45 52 52 4F 44 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ...- . .-. .-. --- -.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010010 01001111 01000100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O V E R R O D E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0056 0045 0052 0052 004F 0044 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4956395252493839 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, 중국, китайский, китаец |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , 독일, немецкий |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국, кореец, корейский |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, 러시아, русский |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, 영국, английский |
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