"overset" meaning in All languages combined

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        "(archaic) To unbalance (a situation, state etc.); to confuse, to put into disarray."
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        "to set (type or copy) in excess of what is needed; to set too much type for a given space."
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        "(printing) to set (type or copy) in excess of what is needed; to set too much type for a given space."
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          "text": "The thought and its expression—these are the two factors which must solve the problem; and it matters not how much we translate or overset—as the Germans felicitously say—so long as we go no deeper and do not grasp at what all literatures have in common.",
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        "(transitive, rare) To translate."
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          "text": "1646, James Howell, letter to Henry Hopkins dated 1 January, 1646 in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: The Familiar Letters of James Howell, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907, Volume 4, p. 17,\n[Tobacco] is a good companion to one that converseth with dead men, for if one hath been poring long upon a book, or is toiled with the pen and stupefied with study, it quickeneth him, and dispels those clouds that usually overset the brain."
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          "text": "Overset into English, after the spirits and measures of the authentical; by Dr. Heinrich Krauss, Ph.D., and so wider.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
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          "text": "They should be overset into English so as to reach a wider public here, for even his elementary descriptions of American universities, would not be so superfluous to any of us as we think, [...]",
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          "text": "The thought and its expression—these are the two factors which must solve the problem; and it matters not how much we translate or overset—as the Germans felicitously say—so long as we go no deeper and do not grasp at what all literatures have in common.",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1646, James Howell, letter to Henry Hopkins dated 1 January, 1646 in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: The Familiar Letters of James Howell, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1907, Volume 4, p. 17,\n[Tobacco] is a good companion to one that converseth with dead men, for if one hath been poring long upon a book, or is toiled with the pen and stupefied with study, it quickeneth him, and dispels those clouds that usually overset the brain."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To overfill."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "overfill",
          "overfill"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əʊvəˈsɛt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-overset.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-overset.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-overset.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-overset.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-overset.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "over-set"
    }
  ],
  "word": "overset"
}