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overwrite
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Word definitions for overwrite in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data; "overwrite that file" [also: overwrote , overwritten ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "to write over other writing," from over- + write (v.). Of computers, it is attested from 1959. Meaning "to write too elaborately or ornately" is from 1923. Related: Overwriting ; overwritten .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (cx transitive computing English) To destroy (older data) by recording new data over it. 2 (cx transitive English) To cover in writing.
Usage examples of overwrite.
All novelists with few exceptions overwrite the first draft of their novels.
I will overwrite you now Data knew all too well what the Presence meant.
Just in case there was any sort of hidden program that could overwrite the results with a second set of data later on.
Those forces would be trying to overwrite the existing motifs of the world.
Otherwise, one big boom would overwrite the noble end of Paris and Torres.
The third unit on that level is a program to erase the memory tape and restore the text of your dispatch, which was saved in the overwrite program.
With a patience no world-born man could fathom, he slowly lured her into the trance the Dunyain called the Whelming, to the place where voice could overwrite voice.
A novel will always lack pace when an author overwrites or rambles away from the plot or story line.
The realworld hazed and faded, overwritten by the images transmitted directly to her brain.
Instantly the world hazed around her, sparks and shadow overwriting her vision, the ghost of new and unrelated sensations tingling along her nerves.
There the wall glows neon-bright, prodigal images splashed along its surface, overlapping, overwriting each other.
I will spare everybody a detailed discussion of all the overwriting that occurs in these stories, except to mention how distressed I am at the number of tendrils that keep showing up.
The two prime offenders here are the overwriting and characterization.
He manages to be sentimental without being cloying, literate without overwriting, and passionate without a need for graphic detail.
The realworld hazed and faded, overwritten by the images transmitted directly to her brain.