Meaning of "overtake" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF OVERTAKE

overtake  [ˌəʊvəˈteɪk]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERTAKE

Overtake is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb overtake in English.

WHAT DOES OVERTAKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Overtaking

Overtaking or passing is the act of one vehicle going past another slower moving vehicle, travelling in the same direction, on a road. The lane used for overtaking another vehicle is almost always a passing lane further from the road shoulder — that is, to the left in places that drive on the right, and to the right in places that drive on the left.

Definition of overtake in the English dictionary

The first definition of overtake in the dictionary is to move past travelling in the same direction. Other definition of overtake is to pass or do better than, after catching up with. Overtake is also to come upon suddenly or unexpectedly.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OVERTAKE

PRESENT

Present

I overtake

you overtake

he/she/it overtakes

we overtake

you overtake

they overtake

Present continuous

I am overtaking

you are overtaking

he/she/it is overtaking

we are overtaking

you are overtaking

they are overtaking

Present perfect

I have overtaken

you have overtaken

he/she/it has overtaken

we have overtaken

you have overtaken

they have overtaken

Present perfect continuous

I have been overtaking

you have been overtaking

he/she/it has been overtaking

we have been overtaking

you have been overtaking

they have been overtaking

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I overtook

you overtook

he/she/it overtook

we overtook

you overtook

they overtook

Past continuous

I was overtaking

you were overtaking

he/she/it was overtaking

we were overtaking

you were overtaking

they were overtaking

Past perfect

I had overtaken

you had overtaken

he/she/it had overtaken

we had overtaken

you had overtaken

they had overtaken

Past perfect continuous

I had been overtaking

you had been overtaking

he/she/it had been overtaking

we had been overtaking

you had been overtaking

they had been overtaking

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will overtake

you will overtake

he/she/it will overtake

we will overtake

you will overtake

they will overtake

Future continuous

I will be overtaking

you will be overtaking

he/she/it will be overtaking

we will be overtaking

you will be overtaking

they will be overtaking

Future perfect

I will have overtaken

you will have overtaken

he/she/it will have overtaken

we will have overtaken

you will have overtaken

they will have overtaken

Future perfect continuous

I will have been overtaking

you will have been overtaking

he/she/it will have been overtaking

we will have been overtaking

you will have been overtaking

they will have been overtaking

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would overtake

you would overtake

he/she/it would overtake

we would overtake

you would overtake

they would overtake

Conditional continuous

I would be overtaking

you would be overtaking

he/she/it would be overtaking

we would be overtaking

you would be overtaking

they would be overtaking

Conditional perfect

I would have overtake

you would have overtake

he/she/it would have overtake

we would have overtake

you would have overtake

they would have overtake

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been overtaking

you would have been overtaking

he/she/it would have been overtaking

we would have been overtaking

you would have been overtaking

they would have been overtaking

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you overtake
we let´s overtake
you overtake

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to overtake

Past participle

overtaken

Present Participle

overtaking

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «OVERTAKE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «overtake» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of overtake

befall · best · come upon · consume · cut up · eclipse · engulf · envelop · exceed · get the better of · hit · leave behind · outclass · outdistance · outdo · outshine · outstrip · overhaul · overwhelm · pass · strike · surpass · swamp · take by surprise · top

TRANSLATION OF OVERTAKE

Find out the translation of overtake to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of overtake from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overtake» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 超过
• Translator English - Spanish: adelantar
• English: overtake
• Translator English - Hindi: आगे निकल
• Translator English - Arabic: يَلْحَقُ
• Translator English - Russian: обгонять
• Translator English - Portuguese: ultrapassar
• Translator English - Bengali: নাগাল ধরা
• Translator English - French: dépasser
• Translator English - Malay: Mengatasi
• Translator English - German: überholen
• Translator English - Japanese: 追い越す
• Translator English - Korean: 추월하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Nyusul
• Translator English - Vietnamese: vượt
• Translator English - Tamil: முந்த
• Translator English - Marathi: गाठणे
• Translator English - Turkish: sollamak
• Translator English - Italian: sorpassare
• Translator English - Polish: wyminąć
• Translator English - Ukrainian: наздоганяти
• Translator English - Romanian: a depăși
• Translator English - Greek: προσπερνώ
• Translator English - Afrikaans: inhaal
• Translator English - Swedish: köra om
• Translator English - Norwegian: innhente

7 QUOTES WITH «OVERTAKE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word overtake.

1

Jan de Bont

Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better?

2

Julian Casablancas

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

3

Helen Fisher

Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.

4

Heraclitus

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

5

Joe Klein

Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'

6

Og Mandino

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

7

Haile Selassie

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERTAKE»

Discover the use of overtake in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overtake and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Night Shall Overtake Us

In Edwardian England a vow of friendship is a thing of innocence.

Kate Saunders, 2011

India, The Third World: Why?: God Made Only One: Can India ...

The Thesis Of He Author`S That India Has The Capacity To Overtake The U.S.A. And Hat This Will Happen By The Year 2014. How? That Is What Is The Book Is All Above. Divided Into 3 Parts And 15 Chaptrs. Bookseller Stamp On The First Page.

Rakesh Wadhwa, 1994

Blindside: why Japan is still on track to overtake the U.S. ...

Examines Japan's emerging role in the global marketplace and predicts that Japan will overtake the U.S.'s economic status

Eamonn Fingleton, 1995

The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old ...

2: 5. for ye shall overtake them. lSa.30: S.shall I overtake them? — thou shall surely overtake (them). 2K. 25: 5. and overtook him in the plains Job 24: 2. ( Some) remove the landmarks ; 27: 20. Terrors take hold on him Ps. 7: 5(b). Let the enemy ...

George V. Wigram, 1866

Computer Communications

Such a path is overtake-free if, for all u < ux < v, < v, every path of potential influence connecting queues r (/',«,) and r(i,vx) includes queue r(i,u]+\). This definition ensures that as a customer of type i traverses this section of his route he cannot ...

B. Gopinath, American Mathematical Society, 1985

The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union, 1929-53, Second Edition

'Catch up and overtake' (dognat' i peregnat') was a central slogan of the Stalin years. In one sense Soviet history in this period was the history of industrialisation. As with its politics, the history of Stalinist economy also falls into distinct periods.

Evan Mawdsley, 2003

Transactions on Edutainment VI

t 0 Find constituents of the prototypical pattern P Perceived Pattern from the current situation Defined Prototypical Patterns corresponding to “Overtake” i+ 1frames R0R0 R1R1 (>T) t 1 ti Catch up tn R 0 R 0 R 2 R 1 PassAhead exist R0R0 R1R1 ...

Zhigeng Pan, Adrian David Cheok, Wolfgang Müller, 2011

Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems: 15th ...

For symmetric protocols, where the processes can overtake each other the same number of times, the throughput of process 0 is half the global throughput. For asymmetric protocols, the throughput of process 0 is either higher (if process 0 can ...

Stefan Kowalewski, Marco Roveri, 2010

Prophecy

Taking the order of the original, the rendering is as follows: “But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day you as a thief should overtake.” The word “you” is distinctive in its emphasis. The phrase “as a thief” goes closely with “overtake,”  ...

Vine Vine, 2010

Popular Tales and Fictions: Their Migrations and Transformations

Be it so,'said the fellow.'Now,'said the scholar, 'by whom shall we be tried?'The fellow said,'We shall be tried in the town of Thame.' 'Nay,' said the scholar, ' Thame is out of my way; let us be tried by him that shall next overtake us.''Be it so, 'said ...

William Alexander Clouston, Christine Goldberg, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERTAKE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overtake is used in the context of the following news items.

Shuckers overtake Wahoos 4-2

PENSACOLA-- Hobbs Johnson gave up a first inning home run to Jesse Winker, but shrugged it off, on his way to a 4-2 victory for Biloxi over ... «SunHerald.com, Jul 15»

Can the Chiefs overtake the Broncos in 2015?

When looking at the Kansas City Chiefs headed into the 2015 season it is hard to not be optimistic. The Chiefs have improved across the ... «Arrowhead Addict, Jul 15»

Rap lyrically most expansive genre as Eminem, Jay Z overtake Bob …

MUMBAI: A study, by Musixmatch, has shown that rappers Eminem, Jay Z and Kanye West have a more extensive vocabulary than folk legend- ... «RadioandMusic.com, Jul 15»

Amazon to Overtake Macy's in 2017

Anecdotally, we've known for a long time that online retailers have been making major moves for years and gaining a new level of prominence ... «Payment Week, Jul 15»

House prices: Renting to overtake home ownership among young …

More than half of the under 40s will be renting homes from private landlords in the UK in 10 years' time, accountancy firm PwC has predicted. «BBC News, Jul 15»

Blue Wahoos overtake Shuckers 6-4

PENSACOLA- - The Shuckers fell behind early on Wednesday night at Pensacola Bayfront Stadium and could not overcome the red-hot Blue ... «SunHerald.com, Jul 15»

Can Hahnville overtake Destrehan in District 7-5A this season? (Poll)

The teams met twice last season and the Wildcats went home as the victors in both instances. In a Week 5 bout, Destrehan smother the ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»

Cricket - Bangladesh lose captain Rahim, overtake South Africa

Bangladesh lost captain Mushfiqur Rahim early before overtaking South Africa's first innings total on the third day of the opening test at ... «Yahoo Eurosport UK, Jul 15»

ETF Assets Overtake Hedge Funds; Fisticuffs? Not So Much

Research firm ETFGI this week reported ETFs' global assets under management at $2.971 trillion, as of the end of June. That's more, slightly ... «Barron's, Jul 15»

How Toronto's Rover could overtake incumbent parking app JustPark

London-based parking app JustPark, which received early backing from BMW, has more than 700,000 users. When it comes to the sharing ... «Cantech Letter, Jul 15»