override vs recall

override

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

  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

recall

verb
  • To request or order the return of (a faulty product). 

  • To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. 

  • To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote. 

  • To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. 

  • To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. 

  • To call again, to call another time. 

  • To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). 

noun
  • Memory; the ability to remember. 

  • The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search. 

  • The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state. 

  • Request of the return of a faulty product. 

  • The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. 

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