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Definition: Overtaking |
OvertakingNoun1. Going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it; "she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "overtaking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Transportation | The overtaking of one vehicle or train by another travelling in the same direction. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: OvertakingSynonym: passing (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Overtaking |
| Specialty definitions using "overtaking": Dark. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "overtaking": Overtake. (references) |
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Lyrics | Memories overtaking me (Fade; performing artist: Staind) | |
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Josh Billings | The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The person was already in the thick woods, night had come on, and Boulatruelle did not succeed in overtaking him. |
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Economic History | Switzerland | The rightist Swiss People's Party (SVP), traditionally the junior partner in the four-party coalition government, more than doubled its voting share from 11.0% in 1987 to 22.5% in 1999, thus overtaking its three coalition partners. (references) |
Political Economy | Austria | Austria has enjoyed political stability since World War II. Until the 1980s, the two major parties, the Social Democrats (SPO) and the People's Party (OVP) had the support of more than 90 percent of the electorate and formed the government from 1987 until the most recent national elections in October 1999. With the rise of Joerg Haider, FPO party leader from 1986 to 2000, the populist right-wing Freedom Party (FPO) has established itself as a mid-sized party, overtaking even the OVP in the 1999 elections. (references) |
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| "Overtaking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.59% of the time. "Overtaking" is used about 128 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 (-ing form) | 83.59% | 107 | 31,463 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.94% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.91% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
2003 by china in india overtaking population will | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "overtaking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منع التخطي, تخط, تجاوز (cap, encroach, encroachment, exceed, excuse, jut, leapfrog, obtrude, omission, outbalance, outmatch, outrun, outstrip, overreach, override, overrun, overtake, pass, passing, project, rise, span, surpass, transcend, transcendence, transgress, trespass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 追上 (Overtake, Overtaken, Overtook). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zákaz předjíždìní (no overtaking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | overhaling (passing), indhentning (collection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | inhalen (accomplish, achieve, attain, earn back, get, overhaul, overtake, pass, passing, reach, regain, win back), het op-en voorbijlopen (passing), achterhaling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ohitus (bypassing, fly-by). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dépassement (overrun, overshoot, overshooting, overswing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | einholen (catch up, gain on, gain upon, haul down, haul in, lower, make good, make up, obtain, overtake, pull in, reel in, ride down, take down, wind in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσπέρασμα (passing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עקיפ" (bypass, circumvention, evasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elhagyás (abandonment, betrayal, dereliction, desertion, doing-away, giving up, jilting, leaving off, omission, relinquishment, renouncing, surrender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sorpasso (passing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 능가 (surpassing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | overtakingay ultrapassagem (overdrive, override, passing). (various references) depãşire (exceeding, outrunning, overfulfilment). (various references) paso (advance, advances, clearing, crossing, deed, despatch, dispatch, doorway, drawing, dried, duct, entrée, exaltation, foot walk, footfall, footprint, footstep, fullness, fulness, gait, gangway, gate, gulf, gut, hangar, ignorance, jars, jaunt, lead, line, move, movement, pace, pass, passage, passageway, passing, path, pitch, progress, shooting, stair, step, Strait, straits, stride, tack, thoroughfare, track, transition, tread, walk, walkout), adelantamiento (advancement, forwardness, improvement, passing). (various references) omkörning (passing). (various references) обгін. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "overtaking" (pronounced ō"vertā'king) |
| 6 | -er t ā' k i ng | undertaking. |
| 5 | -t ā' k i ng | breathtaking, painstaking. |
| 4 | -ā' k i ng | bookmaking, dressmaking, earthshaking, filmmaking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, handshaking, heartbreaking, homemaking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, matchmaking, moneymaking, moviemaking, muckraking, papermaking, peacemaking, steelmaking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, braking, breaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, hacking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, mucking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, packing, panicking, parking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-k-n-o-r-t-v" | |
-2 letters: averting, graviton, grievant, ravigote, retaking, revoking, revoting, troaking, vintager. | |
-3 letters: evoking, genitor, granite, gratine, ingrate, invoker, karting, keratin, negator, orating, overing, reaving, tangier, tearing, troking, vertigo, vetoing, vinegar, vintage, virgate. | |
-4 letters: aigret, argent, aroint, atoner, earing, eating, engirt, eringo, gainer, gaiter, garnet, garote, gitano, goiter, goitre, govern, gratin, graven, grivet, ignore, ingate, intake. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-k-n-o-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: overtalking, overtasking. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 76 65 72 74 61 6B 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ...- . .-. - .- -.- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110100 01100001 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O v e r t a k i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0076 0065 0072 0074 0061 006B 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49887184866777758073 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, arabic, árabe, arabisk, арабська мова, арабський |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, 중국, chinês, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, chino, kinesisk, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", ceh, checo, tjeck, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danese, 덴마크, dinamarquês, danez, danés, dansk, датський, датська мова |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, "ול "י, holland, olandese, 네덜란", holandês, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, holandés, holländsk, голландська мова, голландський |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finlandese, 핀란", finlandês, finês, finlandezã, finlandés, finés, finsk, фінська мова, фінський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, "랑스, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, francés, fransk, franska, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, 독일, alemão, neamţ, alemán, tysk, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, 그리스, grego, greacã, griego, grek, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, 西伯来, 希伯來語 , hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, joods, Hebreeuws, juutalainen, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, hebreu, hebraico, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, ungarer, Hongaarse, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, húngaro, ungrare, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, italiensk, italienska, italienare, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | اللغة الكورية, كوري جنوبي, كوري شمالي, كوري, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejec, korejština, korejský, Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, koreai, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, limba coreeanã, coreean, coreano, koreansk, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, 포르투갈, português, portughez, portugués, portugis, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, rumæner, Roemeens, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, 루마니아, romeno, român, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, 스페인, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | اللغة السويدية, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, 스웨덴, sueco, svensk, шведська мова, шведський |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, 乌克兰, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, Oekraïens, ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, ucraniano, ucrainean, ucranio, ukrainare, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, 영국, inglês, englezesc, inglés, engelsk, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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