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OVERSET

Definition: OVERSET

OVERSET

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Overset

Intransitive verb

1. To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset.

Noun

1. An excess; superfluity.

2. An upsetting; overturn; overthrow; as, the overset of a carriage.

Transitive verb

1. To fill too full.

2. To cause to fall, or to tail; to subvert; to overthrow; as, to overset a government or a plot.

3. To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "OVERSET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)


Synonyms within Context: OVERSET

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Depression

Overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears.

Overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation.

Success

Defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow, overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset, override, overreach; outwit, outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst; put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat, put out of court.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: OVERSET

English words defined with "OVERSET": a machineCranknessOversettingTo reverse an engine, To turn over. (references)

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Use in Literature: OVERSET

TitleAuthorQuote

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Speeches: OVERSET

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Monroe

1817-1825Experiencing the fortune of other nations, the United States may be again involved in war, and it may in that event be the object of the adverse party to overset our Government, to break our Union, and demolish us as a nation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: OVERSET

"OVERSET" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 33.33% of the time. "OVERSET" is used about 6 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)33.33%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)33.33%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)33.33%2245,945
                    Total100.00%6N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: OVERSET

Language Translations for "OVERSET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

përmbys (bring about, capsize, dislocate, keel, overbear, overthrow, overturn, prone, pull over, topsy turvy, uncrown, upset, upturn), bëj çrregullim. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разстройвам се, обръщам (bring about, cant, convert, heave, invert, jib, jibe, notice, overturn, pay, prong, reflect, reverse, revert, set, slew, slue, tip, tip over, turn, turn around, turn aside, turn over, turn round, twist, upset), набирам в повече, прекатурвам (blow over, overbalance, overthrow, overturn, push over, tumble, tumble down, upset). (various references)

   

Czech

  

převrhnout (capsize, overthrow, overturn, tilt, upset), překlopit (reverse, tilt, tip up). (various references)

   

French

  

texte non utilisé (left over), composition en excès (left over). (various references)

   

German

  

Übersatz (left over). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felborít (capsize, overthrow, to blow over, to bowl over, to cant, to capsize, to push over, to roll over, to tilt, to tip over, to tumble down, to turn over, upset). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rovesciare (capsize, down, Evert, knock over, overthrow, overturn, pour, reverse, shower, slop, spill, spill out, tip, topple, tumble, turn, turn inside out, turn over, upset), coccodrillo (crocodile), capovolgere (be reversed, capsize, invert, keel, overturn, reverse, tilt, tip, turn upside down, upset). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oversetay

   

Portuguese

  

voltar (come, come again, come back, come up with, go back, overthrow the government, return, run back, slue round, tip over, turn, turn around, turn over, turn round, upset, wamble), virar (bend, capsize, slew, slue round, spill, spin, swing, throw, tilt, tip, tip over, topple, turn, turn around, turn round, upset), fiscal (check, conservator, controller, fiscal changes, gaffer, inspector, inspectorate, inspiration, land surveyor, overman, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor), estragar (blunder, botch, bungle, deface, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcerted, foulard, impair, injure, marabou, mess, muck, muddle, poisoner, queer, rub, screw up, spoil), desorganizar (disarrange, disarray, dislocation, disorient, translocate, upset), derrubar (down, fell, floor, grass, hew, hew down, knock, knock down, lay, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, put down, shoot down, subvert, throw, tumble, unbuild, upset), alterar (alter, bartender, change, confound, differ, discompose, distempered, distortion, garble, invert, make into, modify, mutate, reconsider, shift, sophisticate, translate, transmute, unsettle, vary). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

опрокидывать (capsize, dump, fall over, keel over, overthrew, overthrow, overthrown, overturn, pull down, tilt, trip, upend, upset, upturn), нарушать порядок (discompose). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

preturiti (capsize, ferret about, overturn, tip over). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

violar tensamente (assault, contravene, infringe, outrage, transgress). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

devrilmek (fall, fall from, fall over, overturn, tilt over, tip, tip over, topple, topple down, topple over, tumble, tumble down, turn over, turn turtle, upset), devirmek (capsize, chop down, crumple, cut down, defeat, down, give smth. a tip, knock, knock back, knock down, knock over, overthrow, overturn, quaff off, revolutionize, shift, strike down, subvert, take down, tilt, tip, topple, topple over, upset), altüst etmek (agitate, bedevil, clutter, clutter up, depolarise, disappoint, disorganize, disturb, knock galley-west, make havoc of, overturn, play havoc with, play the deuce with, ransack, run upside down, screw up, turn about, turn around, turn under, Upend, upset, upturn, work havoc), alabora olmak (capsize, keel over, overturn, turn over, turn turtle). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розстроювати (baffle, derange, detune, disorder, distune, frustrate, unnerve, upset), розладнувати (circumvent, counterwork, derange, detune, disarrange, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disturb, frustrate, shatter, unfix, unhinge, unsettle), бентежити (abash, affront, bewilder, confound, confuse, damp, dank, daunt, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discourage, dismay, disorder, embarrass, embrangle, flummox, muddle, perplex, perturb, puddle, puzzle, upturn), порушувати порядок, перекидатися (bandy, battledore, fall over, keel over, overturn, somersault, tipple, trip, tumble, upset), перекидати (capsize, kick about, overrun, overthrow, overturn, push over, tip over, trip, upset), перевертатися (cant, overturn, tip, turn over), перевертати (cant, invert, overcast, overturn, reverse, tip, turn over, upturn). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: OVERSET

Derivations

Words beginning with "OVERSET": oversets, oversetting. (additional references)


Misspellings

"OVERSET" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: exersept, Iverest, oberwelt, Oveissi, overcut, overlet, oversheet, oversit, oversite. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: OVERSET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: revotes, vetoers.

Words within the letters "e-e-o-r-s-t-v"

-1 letter: everts, revest, revets, revote, soever, stereo, stover, strove, troves, verset, verste, vetoer, vetoes, voters.

-2 letters: erose, ester, evert, overs, overt, reest, reset, revet, roset, rotes, roves, serve, servo, sever, steer, stere, store, stove, terse, tores, torse, trees, trove, veers, verse, verso, verst, verts, voter, votes.

-3 letters: eros, erst, ever, eves, ores, orts, over.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-o-r-s-t-v"
 

+1 letter: coveters, estovers, evertors, outserve, overbets, overeats, overlets, oversets, overstep, overwets, restrove, vortexes.

 

+2 letters: corvettes, coverlets, elevators, leftovers, levatores, outserved, outserves, overbeats, overbites, overedits, overhates, overheats, overmelts, overrates, overslept, overspent, overstate, oversteer, oversteps, overstrew, oversweet, overtakes, overtaxes, overtimes, overtires, overtness, overtones, overtures, overvotes, poverties, renovates, resolvent, revolters, stevedore, takeovers, trouveres, trueloves, vertigoes, votresses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OVERSET


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 56 45 52 53 45 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    ...-    .    .-.    ...    .    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010011 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0056 0045 0052 0053 0045 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

49563952533954

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Non-English Dictionaries with "OVERSET"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanais, albaner, albán, albanese, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, cseh, ceco, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrëngjishte, frëng, franceze, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, francia, francese, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiongjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneиталиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italien, italienisch, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugais, portugiesisch, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeturk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняukrainisht, ukrainas, украинец, украински език, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ukrán, ucraino, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglais, englisch, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Quotations: Speeches
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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