Associations to the word «Overwrite»

Wiktionary

OVERWRITE, verb. (transitive) (computing) To destroy (older data) by recording new data over it.
OVERWRITE, verb. (transitive) To cover in writing.

Dictionary definition

OVERWRITE, verb. Write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data; "overwrite that file".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats