override
English
Etymology
From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.
Pronunciation
Verb
override (third-person singular simple present overrides, present participle overriding, simple past overrode, past participle overridden)
- To ride across or beyond something.
- To ride a horse too hard.
- To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
- The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.
- (object-oriented programming) 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 classCat
, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass calledMammal
.
- How the cat runs is defined in the method
Usage notes
- The form overrode is sometimes used as a past participle, in place of the standard overridden.
Translations
to ride across or beyond something
|
to counteract the normal operation of something
See also
- (programming): overload
Noun
override (plural overrides)
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