overwrite
The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.
Noun
- The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it.
- Tab to the number specifying the number of overwrites and enter a number between 1 and 9. - 2014, Bruce Middleton, Conducting Network Penetration and Espionage in a Global Environment:
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English write English overwrite From over- + write.
Forms
Verb
- To destroy (older) data by recording new data over it.
- I accidentally saved my unwanted changes and overwrote the version of the document I wanted to keep.
- To cover in writing; to write over the top of.
- To write too much.
- Many trainees consider that by increasing the length of the piece they will construct a good feature. This is often not the case and overwriting can lead to vague and muddled features that confuse the reader and...
- To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.
- The Times of course has to pay the price of encyclopaedism by being often dreadfully overwritten, with long paragraphs connected by motley conjunctions. - 1954, Edwin H. Ford, Edwin Emery, Highlights in the History of...
- He overwrites constantly, but his detailed and understated one-paragraph description of Monroe's apartment in New York (pp. 216-18) injects high voltage into the de casibus tradition. - 1986, David Novarr, The Lines of...
- That said, the passage just looked at anticipates rather than participates in greatness. It is too adjectival, a stylistic flaw which suggests an insistence more apparent in the ensuing lines (182-91), where one is torn...