überschreiben — meaning in English

English meaning

• clobber verb To hit or defeat someone or something forcefully and decisively.
• override verb To take priority over, or cancel out, an existing decision, rule, or system.

Senses

überschreiben is used for these senses in English:

• clobber (transitive, computing, slang) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
• override (object-oriented, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
• overwrite (transitive, computing) To destroy (older) data by recording new data over it.
• sign over (transitive) To transfer (property or rights) to somebody else by signing a document.

clobber — full definition

1. verb To hit or defeat someone or something forcefully and decisively.
2. verb To overwrite data unintentionally, especially in computing.
3. noun British informal term for clothing or belongings.

override — full definition

1. verb To take priority over, or cancel out, an existing decision, rule, or system.
2. verb In programming, to replace an inherited method with a new version of the same name.
3. noun A mechanism or command used to take manual control over something automatic.

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