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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky