overdrive
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (verb) IPA(key): /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈdɹaɪv/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌdɹaɪv/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English overdriven, from Old English oferdrīfan, equivalent to over- + drive. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurdrieuwe (“to overdo, overstate”), Dutch overdrijven (“to exaggerate”), German Low German overdrieven, överdrieven (“to overdo, exaggerate”), German übertreiben (“to overdo, exaggerate”), Norwegian overdrive (“to exaggerate”).
Verb[edit]
overdrive (third-person singular simple present overdrives, present participle overdriving, simple past overdrove, past participle overdriven)
- (transitive) To drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
Etymology 2[edit]
From over- + drive From the gear over "D" (drive) in an automatic transmission vehicle.
Noun[edit]
overdrive (countable and uncountable, plural overdrives)
- (dated, automotive) A gear, on an automobile, higher than the normal top gear.
- 1981 October, Popular Mechanics, volume 156, number 4, page 201:
- Cruising in overdrive at legal highway speed keeps rpm right at 1800, depending on rear-axle ratio.
- (uncountable, figurative) A state of heightened activity.
- 2000, Salman Rushdie, The ground beneath her feet, page 78:
- It is true, though it's got nothing to do with me, that the building boom that created the Bombay of my childhood went into overdrive in the years before my birth
Synonyms[edit]
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Coordinate terms[edit]
- 4th gear (in an automatic transmission vehicle)
- 5th gear (in a manual transmission vehicle)
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
over- + drive; after German übertreiben
Verb[edit]
overdrive (imperative overdriv, present tense overdriver, simple past overdrev or overdreiv, past participle overdrevet, present participle overdrivende)
- to exaggerate (overstate, to describe more than is fact)
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References[edit]
- “overdrive” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Adjective[edit]
overdrive
- neuter of overdriven
Verb[edit]
overdrive (present tense overdriv, past tense overdreiv, supine overdrive, past participle overdriven, present participle overdrivande, imperative overdriv)
- Alternative form of overdriva
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