override vs release

override

noun
  • A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others. 

  • A royalty. 

  • 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. 

  • A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control. 

verb
  • To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system 

  • To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature. 

  • To ride a horse too hard. 

  • To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly. 

  • To ride across or beyond something. 

  • To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority. 

release

noun
  • The act or manner of ending a sound. 

  • In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations. 

  • The giving up of a claim, especially a debt. 

  • Anything recently released or made available (as for sale). 

  • A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit. 

  • The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload. 

  • The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken 

  • Orgasm. 

  • A kind of bridge used in jazz music. 

  • The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private. 

  • The process by which a chemical substance is set free. 

  • The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms). 

  • That which is released, untied or let go. 

  • Liberation from pain or suffering. 

verb
  • To set free a chemical substance. 

  • To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain. 

  • To make available to the public. 

  • To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of. 

  • To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity 

  • To free or liberate; to set free. 

  • (of a call) To hang up. 

  • To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit. 

  • to come out; be out. 

  • To discharge. 

  • To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. 

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