overset

vt. 打翻, 推翻, 使失败, 使心烦意乱 vi. 翻倒

发音

UK /ˌəʊvəˈsɛt/
其它
US /ˌoʊvəɹˈsɛt/
UK /ˈəʊvəsɛt/
US /ˈoʊvəɹˌsɛt/

词形变化

oversets 复数 oversets 三单 oversets oversetteth oversetting oversetting 现在分词 oversettest oversettedst 过去式 oversetteth 三单

别名

oversot over-set

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Copy or type set in excess of a given space; (countable) an instance of this.

    不可数 媒体 印刷 可数
  2. 2.

    An act of knocking over or overturning; a capsize or capsizing, an overturning, an upset.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  3. 3.

    An excess, a surplus.

    可数 废旧 罕用 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To knock over or overturn (someone or something); to capsize, to upset.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To physically or mentally disturb (someone); to upset; specifically, to make (someone) ill, especially nauseous; to nauseate, to sicken.

    比喻 及物
  3. 3.

    To throw (something, such as an organization, a plan, etc.) into confusion or out of order; to subvert, to unsettle, to upset.

    比喻 及物
  4. 4.

    To translate (a text).

    比喻 罕用 及物
  5. 5.

    To set (copy or type) in excess of a given space.

    比喻 及物 媒体 印刷
  6. 6.

    To recover from (an illness).

    苏格兰 比喻 及物
  7. 7.

    To cover (the surface of something) with objects.

    废旧 及物
  8. 8.

    To oppress or overwhelm (someone, their thoughts, etc.); to beset; also, to overpower or overthrow (someone, an army, a people, etc.) by force; to defeat, to overwhelm.

    废旧 及物
  9. 9.

    To press (something) down heavily; to compress; also, to choke (a plant).

    废旧 及物
  10. 10.

    To put too heavy a load on (something); to overload.

    废旧 及物
  11. 11.

    To come to rest over (something); to settle.

    废旧 罕用 及物
  12. 12.

    To impose too heavy a tax on (someone); to overtax.

    比喻 废旧 罕用 及物
  13. 13.

    To recover (money) given in an exchange.

    废旧 及物
  14. 14.

    To coil or stow away (a cable, a rope, etc.).

    废旧 及物 航海 交通
  15. 15.

    To turn, or to be turned, over; to capsize; to, or to be, upset.

    古体 不及物
  16. 16.

    Of a person or thing (such as an organization or plan): to become unbalanced or thrown into confusion; to be put into disarray.

    不及物 废旧
adj.
  1. 1.

    Having been overset (verb sense).

    Capsized, overturned, upset.

  2. 2.

    Having been overset (verb sense).

    Of copy or type: set in excess of a given space.

    媒体 印刷

词源

PIE word *upér The verb is derived from Middle English oversetten (“to place or set over, cover; to assail; to defeat, overcome, overpower, overthrow; to defer; to discredit, refute; to disregard, overlook, set aside; to hinder; to oppress; to repulse”), from Old English ofersettan (“to put in a position of authority; to overcome or be overcome; to set over”), from Proto-West Germanic *ubarsattjan (“to place above, set over; to establish, install”), from *ubarsittjan (“to abstain from, neglect; to occupy, possess; to sit over or upon”), from *ubar- (prefix meaning ‘above, over’) + *sittjan (“to sit”) (from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”)). By surface analysis, over- (prefix meaning ‘above, higher; excessive, excessively’) + set (verb). Doublet of oversit. Verb sense 1.2.3 (“to translate (a text)”) is probably a calque of German übersetzen. The adjective is derived from overset, the past participle form of the verb. The noun is also derived from the verb. cognates * Dutch overzetten (“to ferry, transport, translate”) * Old High German ubarsezzen (Middle High German übersetzen, modern German übersetzen (“to cross over, translate”)) * Saterland Frisian uursätte (“to cross over, translate”) * Swedish översätta (“to translate”) * West Frisian oersette (“to translate”)

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