override

Meanings

1. To ride across or beyond something.
2. To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
3. To ride a horse too hard.
4. To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
5. To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
6. To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

1. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
2. A royalty.
3. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
4. A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.

Etymology

From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.