Override

Quick meaning: Override is a verb meaning (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.

Meaning

(transitive) To ride across or beyond something.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
2. (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
4. (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
5. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
6. A royalty.
7. (object-oriented programming, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

Example Sentences

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

Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.

The power of the stories overrides everything else. The quiet starkness of the telling: […]

In automotive design, safety should override lesser factors such as cosmetics and corner-cutting.

Word Forms

• overrides
• overriding
• overrode
• overridden

Synonyms for override

Depending on context, synonyms include reverse, overturn, overrule, overthrow.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overturn, overthrow, reverse, overrule, transcend, overpower.

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