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Definitions
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WordNet 3.6
- v overtake catch up with and possibly overtake "The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp"
- v overtake overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
- v overtake travel past "The sports car passed all the trucks"
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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- Overtake Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
- Overtake To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion; "Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good.""He had him overtaken in his flight."
- Overtake To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome. "If a man be overtaken in a fault.""I shall see
The winged vengeance overtake such children." - Overtake To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by events; as, their careful marketing plan was overtaken by events.
- Overtake To surpass in production, achievement, etc.; as, although out of school for half a year due to illness, the student returned and overtook all the others to finish as valedictorian.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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- overtake To come up with in traveling the same way, or in pursuit (with or without the idea of passing the person or thing overtaken); catch up with in any course of thought or action.
- overtake To take by surprise; come upon unexpectedly; surprise and overcome; carry away.
- overtake Hence To overpower the senses of.
- overtake Specifically, to overcome with drink; intoxicate: chiefly in the past participle.
- n overtake The act or fact of overtaking.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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- v.t Overtake ō-vėr-tāk′ to come up with: to catch: to come upon: to take by surprise
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Quotations
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“The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.” -
“When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.” -
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” -
“Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.” -
“Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.” -
“Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.”
Usage
In literature:
He won't go far, before I overtake him.
"The Death Shot" by Mayne Reid
We had no fear of being able to reach the mesa before they could overtake us.
"The War Trail" by Mayne Reid
Do not be concerned for whatever overtakes me.
"The Eyes of Asia" by Rudyard Kipling
So should we go through life, not trembling with the fear of misfortunes, but ready to encounter them should they overtake us.
"Mary Liddiard" by W.H.G. Kingston
It was plain, at first sight, that this rider could easily overtake the bull.
"The White Chief" by Mayne Reid
Miss O'Reilly had been for some time aware that a severe affliction was about to overtake her.
"The Heir of Kilfinnan" by W.H.G. Kingston
He pushed on as well as he could among the crowd, hoping to overtake Brinsmead, but probably passed him.
"John Deane of Nottingham" by W.H.G. Kingston
It seemed as if Ted would never overtake his prize.
"Ted and the Telephone" by Sara Ware Bassett
After an hour's sleep you will be able to start fresh, maybe overtake me.
"The Buffalo Runners" by R.M. Ballantyne
They apparently were afraid of venturing farther out into the ocean, or saw that it would be hopeless to attempt overtaking us.
"Tales of the Sea" by W.H.G. Kingston
In their wrath, the Athenians now sent a messenger to Sicily to overtake him, and bid him return to Athens to be tried.
"The Story of the Greeks" by H. A. Guerber
I expected every moment to overtake Leo.
"In the Wilds of Africa" by W.H.G. Kingston
I cannot escape to the heights, lest some evil overtake me, and I die.
"The Children's Bible" by Henry A. Sherman
There was no time to consider the matter further, as not a moment was to be lost, or there would be no prospect of overtaking the lugger.
"Won from the Waves" by W.H.G. Kingston
I shall always overtake you until you throw down the last ball.
"Italian Popular Tales" by Thomas Frederick Crane
If it was, he'd overtake them from behind.
"The Pirates of Ersatz" by Murray Leinster
They were merely anxious to overtake him, since they were, in a measure, responsible for his safety.
"The Camp in the Snow" by William Murray Graydon
They know too well the fearful retribution that would overtake them.
"In the Wilds of Florida" by W.H.G. Kingston
The impetus which he can give his body enables him to overtake a falling object before it can reach the earth.
"Popular Adventure Tales" by Mayne Reid
He could soon overtake the man now and learn something more definite as to the parentage of the child he was practically adopting.
"Colonial Born" by G. Firth Scott
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In poetry:
I do not see why I should e'er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.
"Into My Own" by Robert Frost
Thou who dost dwell and linger here below,
Since the condition of this world is frail,
Where of all plants afflictions soonest grow;
If troubles overtake thee, do not wail:
Since the condition of this world is frail,
Where of all plants afflictions soonest grow;
If troubles overtake thee, do not wail:
"The Water-Course" by George Herbert
She, sole mother and maker,
Stronger than sorrow, than strife;
Deathless, though death overtake her;
Faithful, though faith should forsake her;
Spirit, and saviour, and life."
Stronger than sorrow, than strife;
Deathless, though death overtake her;
Faithful, though faith should forsake her;
Spirit, and saviour, and life."
"Tenebrae" by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Like the dear friends who ne'er forsake me—
Whatever sorrows overtake me—
In spite of all my faults which make me
Myself detest,
They still cling to and kindly take me
Unto their breast.
Whatever sorrows overtake me—
In spite of all my faults which make me
Myself detest,
They still cling to and kindly take me
Unto their breast.
"Suggested" by David John Scott
UNcessant Minutes, whil'st you move you tell
The time that tells our life, which though it run
Never so fast or farr, you'r new begun
Short steps shall overtake ; for though life well
The time that tells our life, which though it run
Never so fast or farr, you'r new begun
Short steps shall overtake ; for though life well
"This Watch For When He Could Not Fleep" by Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury
Thus while I sit and sigh the day
With all his borrow’d lights away,
Till night’s black wings do overtake me,
Thinking on thee, thy beauties then,
As sudden lights do sleepy men,
So they by their bright rays awake me.
With all his borrow’d lights away,
Till night’s black wings do overtake me,
Thinking on thee, thy beauties then,
As sudden lights do sleepy men,
So they by their bright rays awake me.
"When, Dearest, I But Think of Thee" by John Suckling
In news:
As waves overtake the beach on Sunday.
The Oakland As overtake the Texas Rangers for the A.L.
Despite the economy, Infonetics forecasts smartphones will continue growing, overtaking regular handsets by 2012.
The Falcons used a four-goal third period to overtake the host Chiefs at Arctic Edge Ice Arena and register their first victory of the season.
China overtakes US in number of patent filings.
GENEVA—GENEVA—The UN says the Chinese filed the most patent applications in the world last year, overtaking the US for the first time.
Poised to overtake Saudi oil production .
US to Overtake Saudi Arabia in Oil Production .
Windows 7 Set To Overtake XP To Become The Most Popular Operating System .
China, India to Overtake US Economy.
Razorfish's Paul Gelb: Mobile Ad Spend Will Overtake TV.
China to Overtake US Economy by 2030.
Oil Output to Overtake Saudi Arabia's by 2020.
Navy overcomes late deficit to overtake Army 17-13.
Singapore 'to Overtake Vegas' as Gambling Hub.
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In science:
As the magnetic pressure overtakes the gas pressure leading to the low beta corona, the percentage of emission in filamentary loops steadily increases until the network completely disappears at temperatures above 106 K.
The Structure and Dynamics of the Upper Chromosphere and Lower Transition Region as Revealed by the Subarcsecond VAULT Observations
They occur inside the fast-moving ejecta when the time-varying outflow from the central engine leads to the ejection of successive shells of material with different Lorentz factors and when the faster shells overtake and collide with the slower ones.
Statistical Analysis of the Observable Data of Gamma-Ray Bursts
This enforces the singlefile nature of the channel by preventing an ion overtaking its neighbour.
From Brownian Dynamics to Markov Chain: an Ion Channel Example
This indicates that MMCTest gets competitive for a realistic precision and starts overtaking the naive method for multiple testing settings which are evaluated with high precision.
MMCTest - A Safe Algorithm for Implementing Multiple Monte Carlo Tests
However λP S only grows logarithmically for large β, so that at some point the intensity will overtake.
Bounds for the probability generating functional of a Gibbs point process
Therefore, in the case of a source with α (cid:46) 1.82, the helium I-fronts may begin to overtake or coincide with the H I-fronts; such a hard spectral index may already be seen in z ∼ 2.5–3 QSO spectra (Shull et al. 2012b) as we discuss below.
The Escape Fraction of Ionizing Radiation from Primordial Galaxies
In principle, a fast moving observer could therefore overtake the spinning massive neutrino and would see it moving in the opposite direction.
Neutrino Mass and Mixing with Discrete Symmetry
The gluon fusion cross section is relatively flatter with increasing mL and overtakes the Drell-Yan around mL of 240 GeV for the SSC and at about mL of 500 GeV for the LHC.
Summary of the Extensions of the Standard Model Working Group
As the diffusion length overtakes the fluctuation, acoustic oscillations in the photons are washed away (see Fig. 15).
Toward Understanding CMB Anisotropies and Their Implications
After the upstream perturbed magnetic field changes the particle momentum through a small angle θ > 1/γ with respect to the shock normal the shock starts to approach the particle to overtake it quickly, usually for θ < 2/γ .
Cosmic ray propagation and acceleration
One should note that in order to change the upstream particle momentum back, toward the shock, until the shock overtakes it, the particle has to move the distance > rg off the shock.
Cosmic ray propagation and acceleration
The crossing time is defined by the age of the supernova remnant, when the pulsar overtakes the blastwave bounding the supernova remnant.
An evolutionary model for pulsar-driven supernova remnants
The age of the remnant when the pulsar overtakes the shell of its remnant was given by van der Swaluw et al.
An evolutionary model for pulsar-driven supernova remnants
Larson (1985) depends upon whether the global collapse overtakes or prevents local collapse.
Collapse and Fragmentation in Finite Sheets
Moreover, as shown in Figure 3, even during the collapse the surface density tends to remain uniform and the velocity gradient similar until the infalling “edge” material overtakes it.
Collapse and Fragmentation in Finite Sheets
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