override

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To ride across or beyond something.

   • Around 50 people were evacuated from a rush-hour London Overground service on October 12, after an eight-car train overrode the buffers at Enfield Town station.
2. 2

   To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.

3. 3

   To ride a horse too hard.

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   1. 4

      To counteract the normal operation of something

      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.
      • The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.
   2. 5

      To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system

      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.
   3. 6

      To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with…

      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.
   4. 7

      A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.

      • The bill passed with 72 members voting for the override and 46 against.
   5. 8

      A royalty.

   6. 9

      A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over…

      A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.

   7. 10

      A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead…

      A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.

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