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Meaning of "overwrote" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERWROTE

overwrote  [ˌəʊvəˈrəʊt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERWROTE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overwrote 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 overwrote in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO OVERWROTE

PRESENT

Present
I overwrite
you overwrite
he/she/it overwrites
we overwrite
you overwrite
they overwrite
Present continuous
I am overwriting
you are overwriting
he/she/it is overwriting
we are overwriting
you are overwriting
they are overwriting
Present perfect
I have overwritten
you have overwritten
he/she/it has overwritten
we have overwritten
you have overwritten
they have overwritten
Present perfect continuous
I have been overwriting
you have been overwriting
he/she/it has been overwriting
we have been overwriting
you have been overwriting
they have been overwriting
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 overwrote
you overwrote
he/she/it overwrote
we overwrote
you overwrote
they overwrote
Past continuous
I was overwriting
you were overwriting
he/she/it was overwriting
we were overwriting
you were overwriting
they were overwriting
Past perfect
I had overwritten
you had overwritten
he/she/it had overwritten
we had overwritten
you had overwritten
they had overwritten
Past perfect continuous
I had been overwriting
you had been overwriting
he/she/it had been overwriting
we had been overwriting
you had been overwriting
they had been overwriting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will overwrite
you will overwrite
he/she/it will overwrite
we will overwrite
you will overwrite
they will overwrite
Future continuous
I will be overwriting
you will be overwriting
he/she/it will be overwriting
we will be overwriting
you will be overwriting
they will be overwriting
Future perfect
I will have overwritten
you will have overwritten
he/she/it will have overwritten
we will have overwritten
you will have overwritten
they will have overwritten
Future perfect continuous
I will have been overwriting
you will have been overwriting
he/she/it will have been overwriting
we will have been overwriting
you will have been overwriting
they will have been overwriting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would overwrote
you would overwrote
he/she/it would overwrote
we would overwrote
you would overwrote
they would overwrote
Conditional continuous
I would be overwriting
you would be overwriting
he/she/it would be overwriting
we would be overwriting
you would be overwriting
they would be overwriting
Conditional perfect
I would have overwrote
you would have overwrote
he/she/it would have overwrote
we would have overwrote
you would have overwrote
they would have overwrote
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been overwriting
you would have been overwriting
he/she/it would have been overwriting
we would have been overwriting
you would have been overwriting
they would have been overwriting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you overwrite
we let´s overwrite
you overwrite
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to overwrite
Past participle
overwritten
Present Participle
overwriting
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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERWROTE


bluethroat
ˈbluːˌθrəʊt
groat
ɡrəʊt
Grote
ɡrəʊt
Haftaroth
hɑːfˈtəʊrəʊt
Haphtaroth
hɑːfˈtəʊrəʊt
Igorot
ˌɪɡəˈrəʊt
rewrote
ˌriːˈrəʊt
rhinocerote
raɪˈnɒsəˌrəʊt
rote
rəʊt
rubythroat
ˈruːbɪˌθrəʊt
scrote
skrəʊt
Sderot
ˌsdeɪˈrəʊt
throat
θrəʊt
troat
trəʊt
typewrote
ˈtaɪprəʊt
underwrote
ˌʌndəˈrəʊt
whitethroat
ˈwaɪtˌθrəʊt
wrote
rəʊt
yellowthroat
ˈjɛləʊˌθrəʊt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERWROTE

overwhelmed
overwhelming
overwhelmingly
overwide
overwily
overwind
overwing
overwinter
overwise
overwisely
overwithhold
overword
overwork
overworked
overwound
overwrest
overwrestle
overwrite
overwritten
overwrought

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERWROTE

by rote
cote
coyote
denote
devote
endnote
garrote
ghostwrote
Igorrote
keynote
Lanzarote
note
outwrote
Post-it Note
pote
promote
quote
remote
tote
vote

Synonyms and antonyms of overwrote in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overwrote» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERWROTE

Find out the translation of overwrote to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of overwrote from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overwrote» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

重写
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sobrescribió
570 millions of speakers

English

overwrote
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अधिलेखित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

overwrote
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

переписал
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

overwrote
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অধিলিখন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

écrasé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tukar ganti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

überschrieb
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

上書き
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

덮어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overwrote
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ghi đè lên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேலெழுதுகின்றன
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अधिलिखित करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yazılmaması
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sovrascritto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nadpisałeś
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

переписав
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

suprascris
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διέγραφε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overwrote
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skrivit över
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overskrev
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overwrote

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERWROTE»

The term «overwrote» is regularly used and occupies the 95.961 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERWROTE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «overwrote» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «overwrote» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overwrote

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERWROTE»

Discover the use of overwrote in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overwrote and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Semantic Leaps: Frame-Shifting and Conceptual Blending in ...
(1 8) # That virus overwrote dozens of my files - luckily, some important ones. (19) That virus overwrote dozens of my files, and it upset me. (20) # That virus overwrote dozens of my files, but it upset me. Thus the difference in the preconditions ...
Seana Coulson, 2006
2
Anónimo mexicano
The scribe wrote te, then overwrote the vowel as an /. 676. A marginal note in the left column reads "m finaliso con dho capitulo — con cuerda con el capitulo 16 asta su fin. Libro 3°" (finishing with the aforesaid chapter — corresponds with ...
Richley H. Crapo, Bonnie Glass-Coffin, 2005
3
Crime Scene to Court: The Essentials of Forensic Science
It is possible to infer date and time information for data contained in cluster slack not only from content but also from the date and time information of the file that overwrote it, i.e. the data in cluster slack must have existed prior to the file that ...
Peter White, 2010
4
Management of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Database Systems
the recovery of TI above could also be empty, because T2 overwrote all results of TI and because no other transaction read the results; T\ is thus dead (cf. [Pap86] ) . The case of empty recovery corresponds to H% without the two operations in ...
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Amit Sheth, 1999
5
Visual Basic 2005 Programmer's Reference
WriteLine(per.EmployeeId & End Sub “: “ “: “ “: “ & mgr.LastName) & emp. LastName) & per.LastName) The following output shows the program's results. Notice that the Employee object's value for EmployeeId (2) overwrote the value saved by ...
Rod Stephens, 2005
6
Elementary Information Security
The overflow data overwrote the return address. Once the read function finished, it tried to return to its caller by using the address stored at location 1180. The overflow rewrote that location to point to the shellcode (location 1260). The attack  ...
Richard E. Smith, 2011
7
Polity Agent
She then erased and overwrote its retrieval memory, so it would appear this was done under some stress. The search parameters themselves she then scrubbed and overwrote with the parameters for a technical search. She left that ...
Neal Asher, 2013
8
Contemporary Security Studies
... until they became unusable USA Huge impact on the general awareness of insecurity Michelangelo I992 (unknown) DOS systems Overwrote the first hundred sectors of the hard disk with nulls Caused first digital mass hysteria Back Orifice ...
Alan Collins, 2013
9
The Definitive Guide to Controlling Malware, Spyware, ...
(Actually, there were two different overflows, one overwrote the heap, a data storage area; the other overwrote the stack, the instruction storage area.) The SQL Server Resolution Service did not detect an error but simply continued to execute; ...
Realtimepublishers.com, Sullivan, Dan, 2005
10
A Guide to Forensic Testimony: The Art and Practice of ...
In using Norton's Unerase, Voorhees unnecessarily copied this program onto the Denver computer first, and thereby overwrote 7 to 8 percent of the hard drive before commencing his efforts to copy the contents. Wedig noted that information  ...
Fred Chris Smith, Rebecca Gurley Bace, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERWROTE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term overwrote is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Getting your Disaster Recovery process right – three areas to …
The malware corrupted files, overwrote the infected machine's master boot record and decimated data past the point of recovery. This attack is ... «ITProPortal, Jul 15»
2
United Airlines hands out one million air miles to man who found …
... he was able to hack the in-flight entertainment system on an airplane and overwrote code in the Thrust Management Computer on the plane, ... «International Business Times UK, Jul 15»
3
Supernatural: "Bad Day at Black Rock" Flashback Review
It's what happens so often with the brothers that I actually overwrote my memories. It was pleasing to see Sam and Dean address it. Winchester ... «IGN, Jul 15»
4
Samsung vows to fix Windows Update issue in the next software …
... stopped the laptops/desktops receiving Windows updates, because they overwrote on the customized drivers installed by the Korean giant. «The Next Digit, Jun 15»
5
HUD Administrative Fee Formula Outlined in Notice
... undercounted new admissions because any interim recertification within the 12 months on a new admission overwrote the new admission ... «Targeted News Service, Jun 15»
6
Sony Pictures: Inside the Hack of the Century
... be recovered, the attackers had even added a little extra poison: a special deleting algorithm that overwrote the data seven different ways. «Fortune, Jun 15»
7
At L&I, will 'holds' come back to haunt?
Grossman indicated that holds no longer appeared in the system because after fines were paid, HANSEN "irretrievably overwrote" the notations ... «Philly.com, May 15»
8
50 Star Wars Characters We'd Like to See in Disney Infinity
Wikipedia tells us that 4-LOM is "an ambitious protocol droid who overwrote his own programming to embark on a life of crime." That basically ... «Paste Magazine, May 15»
9
Chris Roberts who 'hacked a commercial flight' also hacked the ISS
In one instance, after 'hacking' the IFE system and connecting to 'other systems on the airplane network', Roberts then apparently overwrote ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
10
Discussion: COMIC REEL: Rachel McAdams Swirls Around "Doctor …
... which gives the appearance that perhaps Samnee overwrote the adventure. While this feels like the most verbose chapter of the issue, it also ... «Comic Book Resources, May 15»

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