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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope