"overwriter" meaning in All languages combined

See overwriter on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: overwriters [plural]
Etymology: overwrite + -er Etymology templates: {{affix|en|overwrite|-er|id2=agent noun}} overwrite + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} overwriter (plural overwriters)
  1. (computing) Software that writes over the contents or unused section of a data store to prevent recovery of sensitive information. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-overwriter-en-noun-WfvsdDuG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 75 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 74 26 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. One who writes too much.
    Sense id: en-overwriter-en-noun-QRs8TZev
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: file shredder, eraser

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for overwriter meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "overwrite",
        "3": "-er",
        "id2": "agent noun"
      },
      "expansion": "overwrite + -er",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "overwrite + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overwriters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "overwriter (plural overwriters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "file shredder"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "eraser"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Software that writes over the contents or unused section of a data store to prevent recovery of sensitive information."
      ],
      "id": "en-overwriter-en-noun-WfvsdDuG",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "Software",
          "software"
        ],
        [
          "recovery",
          "recovery"
        ],
        [
          "sensitive",
          "sensitive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) Software that writes over the contents or unused section of a data store to prevent recovery of sensitive information."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Amy E. Weldon, The Writer's Eye",
          "text": "Overwriters sometimes have an endearingly sincere rationale: “I want to make writing that's pretty. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who writes too much."
      ],
      "id": "en-overwriter-en-noun-QRs8TZev"
    }
  ],
  "word": "overwriter"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "overwrite",
        "3": "-er",
        "id2": "agent noun"
      },
      "expansion": "overwrite + -er",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "overwrite + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overwriters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "overwriter (plural overwriters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "file shredder"
    },
    {
      "word": "eraser"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Software that writes over the contents or unused section of a data store to prevent recovery of sensitive information."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "Software",
          "software"
        ],
        [
          "recovery",
          "recovery"
        ],
        [
          "sensitive",
          "sensitive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) Software that writes over the contents or unused section of a data store to prevent recovery of sensitive information."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Amy E. Weldon, The Writer's Eye",
          "text": "Overwriters sometimes have an endearingly sincere rationale: “I want to make writing that's pretty. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who writes too much."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overwriter"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.