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Definition: OVERRUNNING |
OVERRUNNINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Overrun |
Date "OVERRUNNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | The action of a log or load that, when being dragged downhill, moves faster than and threatens to overtake the animal or machine drawing it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Weather | A weather pattern in which a relatively warm air mass is in motion above another air mass of greater density at the surface. Embedded thunderstorms sometimes develop in such a pattern; severe thunderstorms (mainly with large hail) can occur, but tornadoes are unlikely. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: OVERRUNNING |
| Specialty definitions using "OVERRUNNING": overrunning clutch ♦ Warm Advection. (references) |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We have chosen to fight a limited war in Vietnam in an attempt to prevent a larger war-a war almost certain to follow, I believe, if the Communists succeed in overrunning and taking over South Vietnam by aggression and by force. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "OVERRUNNING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "OVERRUNNING" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 93.33% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
overrunning clutch | 5 |
overrunning clutches | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "OVERRUNNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 侵 (Overran). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | omsætning (turnover), ombrydning (making up and imposing, reimposition, remaking-up, upmaking), loebe loebsk ned ad bakke. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | te grote snelheid hebben, het verlopen van regels of pagina's (reimposition, remaking-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | surpasser (overpass), remaniement (overhaul). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | überrollend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μετασχηματισμός σελίδας (reimposition, remaking-up), προσπερνώ (overtake, pass by). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | tendenza al sorpasso, rimaneggiamento (rehash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 蹂躪 (trampling down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じゅうり" (infringement, trampling down, trampling upon, violation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 공격섬멸. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | overrunningay ultrapassar (better, break, cross, exceeding, excellence, get out, go beyond, keep one's distance, outbid, outboard, out-college, outdo, outgoing, outlook, outmatch, outpace, outrun, out-top, outvalue, outvoice, overhaul, overpass, overreact, overriding, oversight, overtake, overtrain, pass by, surpass, transcend, transfer, transgress, whop), recorrecção (reimposition, remaking-up). (various references) recorrido (haul, lift, line, path, range, round, route, run, tack, trail, travel, way), lanzarse los troncos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Kings Chapter 13, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai apeqanen elisaie kai eqayan auton kai monozwnoi mwab hlqon en th gh elqontoV tou eniautou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Mortuus est ergo Heliseus et sepelierunt eum latrunculi quoque de Moab venerunt in terra in ipso anno |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne Helise dyyede, and thei birieden hym. Forsothe the lityl theeuis of Moab camen in to the lond in that yeer. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And death came to Elisha and they put his body into the earth. Now in the spring of the year, armed bands of Moabites frequently came, overrunning the land. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Kings Chapter 13, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ug si Eliseo namatay, ug ilang gilubong siya. Karon ang mga panon sa mga Moabnon mingsulong sa yuta sa umalabut nga tuig. |
| Croatian | Elizej zatim umrije i pokopaše ga. A pljaèkaške èete Moabaca napadale zemlju svake godine. |
| Danish | Så døde Elisa, og de jordede ham. År efter År trængte moabitiske Strejfskarer ind i Landet; |
| Dutch | Daarna stierf Elisa, en zij begroeven hem. De benden nu der Moabieten kwamen in het land met het ingaan des jaars. |
| Finnish | Sitten Elisa kuoli, ja hänet haudattiin. Ja mooabilaisten partiojoukkoja tuli maahan vuosi vuodelta. |
| French | Élisée mourut, et on l`enterra. L`année suivante, des troupes de Moabites pénétrèrent dans le pays. |
| German | Da aber Elisa gestorben war und man ihn begraben hatte, fielen die Kriegsleute der Moabiter ins Land desselben Jahres. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Elize mouri, yo antere l'. Chak lanne moun Moab yo te konn fè bann pou vin fè piyay nan peyi Izrayèl la. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tak lama kemudian Elisa meninggal dan dikuburkan. Pada masa itu gerombolan-gerombolan Moab biasanya menyerang negeri Israel sekali setahun. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hata, maka matilah Elisa, lalu dikuburkan oranglah akan dia. Maka pada masa itu adalah beberapa pasukan orang Moab yang penyamun masuk ke dalam negeri itu, yaitu pada masa ganti musim. |
| Italian | Eliseo morì; lo seppellirono. All'inizio dell'anno nuovo irruppero nel paese alcune bande di Moab. |
| Maori | ¶ Na ka mate a Eriha, a tanumia ana e ratou. A ka haere mai nga taua a nga Moapi ki te whenua i te aranga o te tau. |
| Norwegian | Så døde Elisa, og de begravde ham. Ved årets begynnelse pleide moabittiske herjeflokker å falle inn i landet. |
| Portuguese | Depois morreu Eliseu, e o sepultaram. Ora, as tropas dos moabitas invadiam a terra entrada do ano. |
| Rumanian | Elisei a murit, wi a fost kngropat. Kn anul urmqtor, au intrat kn yarq niwte cete de Moabiyi. |
| Swedish | Så dog då Elisa, och man begrov honom. Men moabitiska strövskaror plägade falla in i landet, vid årets ingång. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "OVERRUNNING" (pronounced ō"verru'ning) |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-n-n-o-r-r-u-v" | |
-2 letters: rerunning, unnerving. | |
-3 letters: unerring, vigneron. | |
-4 letters: enuring, environ, grinner, grunion, ignorer, negroni, nerving, overing, overrun, reunion, runnier, running, runover, unroven. | |
-5 letters: eringo, erring, ginner, gorier, govern, guenon, gunnen, gunner, ignore, ironer, neuron, region, rennin, renvoi, rigour, ringer, roving, ruiner, runner, unrove, vigour, voguer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 56 45 52 52 55 4E 4E 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ...- . .-. .-. ..- -. -. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010010 01010101 01001110 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O V E R R U N N I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0056 0045 0052 0052 0055 004E 004E 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4956395252554848434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, chinês, chino |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | 丹麦语, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, 덴마크, dinamarquês, danés |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, 네덜란", holandês, holandés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, francês, francés |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, alemão, alemán |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, grego, griego |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, 이탈리아 |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, japonés |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, japonés |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, coreano |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, português, portugués |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, espanhol, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, 영국, inglês, inglés |
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