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},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "perezapysáty",
"sense": "destroy old data",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "перезаписа́ти"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "destroy old data",
"word": "ghi đè"
}
],
"word": "overwrite"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 3-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms prefixed with over-",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"en:Writing"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "over",
"3": "write"
},
"expansion": "over- + write",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From over- + write.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "overwrites",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "overwrite (plural overwrites)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Computing"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2014, Bruce Middleton, Conducting Network Penetration and Espionage in a Global Environment",
"text": "Tab to the number specifying the number of overwrites and enter a number between 1 and 9.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it."
],
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"destroy",
"destroy"
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[
"data",
"data"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing) The operation of destroying older data by recording new data over it."
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"sciences"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/əʊ.vəˈɹaɪt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪt/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-overwrite.wav",
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/20/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-overwrite.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-overwrite.wav.ogg",
"text": "Audio"
}
],
"word": "overwrite"
}
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