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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overnight
I.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an overnight bag (=a small suitcase or bag for a short stay somewhere)
▪ All you need to take is an overnight bag.
an overnight stay
▪ Business trips may involve an overnight stay.
change overnight (=very quickly)
▪ Old habits cannot be changed overnight.
overnight bag
▪ He packed an overnight bag and left.
overnight stop
▪ The trip includes an overnight stop in London.
packed...overnight bag
▪ He packed an overnight bag and left.
stay the night/stay overnight/stay over (=stay from one evening to the next day)
▪ Did you stay the night at Carolyn’s?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
appear
▪ Geologically, parts of the country are still evolving, like the island of Surtsey, which appeared overnight in 1973.
▪ Stunning new products and levels of service do not appear overnight.
change
▪ He was a patient man: he knew that the attitude of Heads and teachers could not be changed overnight.
▪ When radar was directed toward Mercury in the early I960s the situation changed overnight.
▪ Your footy fortunes can change overnight.
▪ But they will not change overnight.
▪ Attitudes and mentalities fashioned over 30 years did not change overnight.
▪ Though the conditions of supply had changed overnight in October 1981, the conditions of demand for mortgage securities had not.
▪ People's perception of me changed overnight.
▪ And needs change overnight, as many executives and senior managers have found to their dismay in the past several years.
disappear
▪ However, one of them disappeared overnight, after being perfectly healthy during the day.
▪ This is not something that is going to disappear overnight.
▪ And they always know it can disappear overnight.
dry
▪ Leave to dry overnight before gently bending back the waxed paper and lifting off the piped outlines with a palette knife.
▪ The suit dried overnight, while he slept.
▪ Allow to dry overnight, then buff with a soft cloth.
▪ Allow the graph to dry overnight before hanging it up.
▪ Trim neatly around bottom edge and leave to dry overnight.
▪ Leave to dry overnight until hard.
▪ Let them dry overnight before you switch on the heat again.
▪ But it does make sense to paint floors last thing at night, giving the paint a chance to dry overnight.
happen
▪ A positive attitude towards ageing doesn't happen overnight, it comes with age.
▪ Here the dislocation seemed to happen overnight.
▪ However, it is not something that happens overnight.
▪ This perception did not happen overnight, and can not be changed overnight by candidates or wives.
▪ Of course, what became this major achievement did not happen overnight.
▪ The greatest lineout jumper in the world is not going to walk into any old team and have it happen overnight.
▪ Change doesn't happen overnight so we must continue to address real concerns, use real science and aim for realistic targets.
▪ Of course this will not happen overnight.
refrigerate
▪ When cool, refrigerate overnight with weight still on.
▪ Cover and refrigerate overnight or for several hours.
▪ Stir lightly to dissolve. Refrigerate overnight or at least 6 hours.
▪ Let stand at room temperature 3 to 4 hours or refrigerate overnight.
▪ Let sit 1 hour at room temperature or cover and refrigerate overnight.
▪ It is best to refrigerate overnight.
stay
▪ Bigdollar contributors were offered overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom.
▪ She says your child has been admitted but call back later to see if she is going to stay overnight.
▪ We were staying overnight at Blackburn bothy, which is set in a small wood with a stream wending through it.
▪ Our hospital policy permits fathers to live-in with the mother and stay overnight. 7.
▪ He arrived unannounced yesterday and stayed overnight.
▪ On a Saturday, supporters driving hundreds of miles from east and west Tennessee could stay overnight without missing work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Several members of the board became millionaires overnight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I got out of bed, and my back had stiffened up overnight to where I could just barely bend.
▪ It was a lost opportunity, but you can't change some people overnight.
▪ Nothing really worthwhile can be accomplished overnight or without a lot of effort on your part.
▪ The volunteers fasted overnight, or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon.
▪ We stayed overnight in a motor camp in Picton and continued next day, southwards down the east coast to Kaikoura.
▪ When radar was directed toward Mercury in the early I960s the situation changed overnight.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
accommodation
▪ Included in the cost is all overnight accommodation.
▪ For $ 239, you and your Valentine are treated to the same fabulous dinner, and overnight accommodations.
▪ Except where * indicates that overnight accommodation for 3 nights in Budapest is on a bed and breakfast basis.
▪ Day 8 Agra-Khajuraho A morning flight will take you to Khajuraho with overnight accommodation at the Taj.
▪ Several can offer overnight accommodation to pilots socked-inn by weather.
▪ Many of these huts provide overnight accommodation if you feel like being a bit adventurous.
▪ Ultimately, it is expected to provide overnight accommodation for up to 30 volunteers.
▪ The cost of your ticket, plus overnight accommodation and full Yorkshire breakfast, will be £28.50.
bag
▪ She looked at him, then realised her overnight bag was in the boot.
▪ She gave him five minutes to pack an overnight bag under Dexter's supervision and say farewell to his family.
▪ Bring a friend or relative for moral support and help in juggling insurance forms and your overnight bag.
▪ She received her overnight bag and Rachel's box from Bryn and thanked him warmly.
▪ She collected an overnight bag and left.
▪ I packed an overnight bag and went and checked the street through a chink in the curtain.
▪ Unzipping her overnight bag, she took out a copy of one of Puddephat's books.
case
▪ An overnight case had been placed carefully on a sheet of newspaper.
change
▪ Being the contrary cuss he was, he did not find this overnight change of ambience entirely melancholy.
▪ Or perhaps he found traditional concepts so firmly entrenched that he was powerless to effect any radical overnight change.
▪ There was never a big overnight change.
▪ Drastic overnight changes will certainly lead to digestive upsets.
leader
▪ Stewart's 67 left him a stroke ahead of his playing partner Rodger Davies and two in front of the overnight leader, Bernhard Langer.
rain
▪ The unwary movement caused her foot to slip on the footpath made muddy by the overnight rain.
▪ After an overnight rain, the sky appeared clear and blue.
▪ Andrew Caddick was probably only reprieved by overnight rain which gave the pitch an early greenish tinge.
▪ Officials believe one explanation may be the heavy overnight rain in the area prevented the tar from bonding.
▪ There was blood on the ground from the exit wound which had not been entirely washed away by the overnight rain.
▪ It was a clear day, cloudless and cold, with the overnight rain still glistening on the cobbles.
▪ Among them was a small cuddly bunny wrapped in a plastic bag against the overnight rain.
stay
▪ We arrive in Innsbruck for dinner and an overnight stay.
▪ On to the Muskoka resort region for an overnight stay at the Highwayman Inn.
▪ An overnight stay in Fort Lauderdale is complimentary for passengers departing from the West Coast.
▪ His trips usually involve an overnight stay, and he pays the company rent for this occasional occupation.
▪ The average charge for an overnight stay in such historic surroundings was £16 for the four of us, including breakfast.
▪ Yes, if you have to spend any time in hospital as the result of an accident which requires an overnight stay.
▪ A six-hour delay on an overnight stay?
stop
▪ Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse.
▪ Foreigners generally get off at Novosibirsk for an overnight stop, but I stayed on the train.
▪ If you wish, we can arrange for your luggage to be sent on ahead to each of the overnight stops.
▪ One such overnight stop was in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to stay with and enlist the support of pilot Dorothy Leh.
▪ Souk Sebt, a Saturday marketplace, was our overnight stop.
▪ This journey also includes an overnight stop near Wurzburg.
▪ We cross to Calais and continue to Brussels for our first overnight stop.
success
▪ Euston Films' future Christmas Period Stand-By was not an overnight success.
▪ Galway's revival is no overnight success.
▪ Bassett was closely involved in the success of Wimbledon's Crazy Gang, so he is no overnight success.
train
▪ Edward had arrived by the overnight train and felt like death.
▪ Following the Sunday events, Joe saw a thoroughly inebriated Longworth off on the overnight train.
▪ Day 5 Sat Aswan-Cairo Another free day before taking the overnight train to Cairo.
▪ If you take the overnight train across the country beware of public holidays when they're very crowded.
▪ Only an overnight train journey, however, divides it from tropical areas and their exotic products.
▪ I at once applied for leave, which was granted, and set off for Edinburgh on the overnight train.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an overnight delivery service
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After an overnight rain, the sky appeared clear and blue.
▪ Dealer financing rate for overnight sale and repurchase of Treasury securities.
▪ In 1981, it had 26 percent of the overnight market; by 1989, it was down to 12 percent.
▪ She gave him five minutes to pack an overnight bag under Dexter's supervision and say farewell to his family.
▪ The key overnight rate will settle at 0. 45 percent, the same as yesterday, a money market broker said.
▪ They take eighteen hours all told, including the overnight soaking.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
overnight

overnight \o"ver*night"\, adv.

  1. In the fore part of the night last past; in the evening before.

  2. Throughout the night; as, the candle will not last overnight.

  3. During the night; hence, in a short period of time; as, his prospects of winning changed overnight.

    I had been telling her all that happened overnight.
    --Dickens.

overnight

overnight \o"ver*night"\, a. Ocurring or accomplished during one night; as, guaranteed overnight delivery of a package.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overnight

early 14c., from over- + night (n.). Originally "on the preceding evening;" sense of "during the night" is attested from 1530s. Meaning "in the course of a single night, hence seemingly instantaneously" is attested from 1939.

Wiktionary
overnight
  1. 1 occurring between dusk and dawn. 2 complete before the next morning. adv. Throughout the night. n. 1 Items delivered or completed overnight. 2 An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility. 3 (context obsolete English) The fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening. v

  2. 1 (context intransitive English) To stay overnight; to spend the night. (from 19th

  3. ) 2 (context transitive US English) To send something for delivery the next day. (from 20th c.)

WordNet
overnight

adv. happening in a short time or with great speed; "these solutions cannot be found overnight!"

overnight

adj. lasting through or extending over the whole night; "a nightlong vigil"; "an overnight trip" [syn: nightlong]

Wikipedia
Overnight

Overnight is a 2003 documentary by Tony Montana and Mark Brian Smith. The film details the rise and fall of filmmaker and musician Troy Duffy, the writer-director of The Boondock Saints, and was filmed at his request.

Duffy is presented as a victim of his own ego, and as the film progresses and his fortunes fade, he becomes increasingly abusive to his friends, relatives and business partners. According to co-director Montana, "Troy seemed to revel in the attention of Hollywood's lights and our cameras. Only three times during the production did he ask not to be filmed. It was on those occasions that he threatened us."

Overnight (disambiguation)

Overnight may refer to:

Overnight (album)

Overnight is the third studio album by American pop band Parachute. It was released on August 13, 2013 by Mercury Records. In this album, the band was pushed further into the pop music industry by creating a new, more upbeat sound that was not heard as much in their previous albums. Parachute immediately began touring upon the release of this album. They started the tour off by headlining with Matt Hires, followed by a tour with Walk off the Earth and Gavin DeGraw.

Usage examples of "overnight".

Arthur Andersen, the once-revered accounting firm, evaporated overnight as its role in the debacle led to a subsidiary scandal of its own.

The Captain screwed his glass into his eye, and greeted Bernard in his usual fashion--that is, as if he had parted with him overnight.

Even the homely wood blewits, that you cook like tripe, with milk and onions, and the egg-yolk yellow chanterelle with its fan-vaulting and faint scent of apricots, all spring up overnight like bubbles of earth, sustained by nature, existing in a void.

The fans were stl too, although the weather had changed sharply overnight, the thick muggy air blown away and replaced by one of those clear blue-and-white days that were more spring than summer, so that, like Nadine, she wore a sweater buttoned over her blou ise.

Some said that strange glowing beings from the Silicon Valley had wandered in overnight and started the baby dome, then infiltrated the Psychics, the Gaians, and the Extropians, whose neural architecture would be read into the Dome, become part of its exponentially growing referential power.

The local hospital kept her overnight for observation, and I think they had to treat her for hypothermia, but she went home with us the next morning.

The young girl who blasted herself to fame overnight through the good right gun arm of Northwest Smith matured to become one of the most perceptive literary artists the science-fiction world has ever known.

Zap and you have cancer of the cervix, rotting ovaries, one of those female things, and it metastasizes overnight and you come apart, turning into a puddle of stinking fluids in the county hospital.

Mike and Avram were wearing standard gray shipsuits and carrying overnight bags, but when Captain Tara Van Doren got out of her vacuum overclothes, Celinda understood why all the dress-up.

Friday morning and he had just come down the steps to check on the panty hose that he had left steeping overnight in a Crockpot full of harsh chemicals.

IN HIS SHIRT POCKET he had brand-new business cards, the ink barely dry, delivered fresh that morning from an overnight printing firm, declaring him to be the Chief Paralegal of the Law Offices of J.

It would have been as unthinkable for me to take a seat beside Delbert Mudge or Charlie-Charlie Rackett in our fourth-grade classroom as for Delbert or Charlie-Charlie to invite me for an overnight in their farmhouse bedrooms.

These doses will take effect immediately, symptoms will heal naturally in a week, overnight with a reconstructor nano, and I have eighty doses of that you can have.

We will not be able to convince these people that there will be no overnight change of laws with the coming of a Kaiel government, no confusion, no retroactive Contribution for laws invented today.

The pungent smell of souvlaki that wafted to his nostrils as the weary vendors pushed their carts to overnight shelters, the sight of the patient horses as they stood fastened to festively decorated carriages at the corner of Fifth and Central Park South, the line of limousines in front of the Plaza Hotel---all these things escaped him.