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overshoot
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun overshoot has 1 sense
- overshoot(n = noun.act) go-around, wave-off - an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt; Array is a kind of landing approach
Derived form verb overshoot2
Verb overshoot has 2 senses
- overshoot(v = verb.competition) Array - shoot beyond or over (a target); Array is one way to blast, shoot, miss
- overshoot(v = verb.cognition) Array - aim too high; "The plan overshoots its aim" is one way to aim, aspire, draw a bead on, shoot for
Antonym: undershoot
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun overshoot1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
overshoot, v. t.
- To shoot over or beyond; to miss; as, to overshoot a mark; to overshoot the green in golf. South. [1913 Webster]
- To go beyond an intended point or limit; as, to overshoot the runway in landing an airplane; to overshoot the endpoint in a titration. [PJC]
- To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. [1913 Webster]
- To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. [1913 Webster]
overshoot, v. i.
To fly beyond the mark. Collier. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
overshoot, v. & n.
--v.tr. (past and past part. -shot)
1 pass or send beyond (a target or limit).
2 (of an aircraft) fly beyond or taxi too far along (the runway) when landing or taking off.
--n.
1 the act of overshooting.
2 the amount of this.
--v.tr. (past and past part. -shot)
1 pass or send beyond (a target or limit).
2 (of an aircraft) fly beyond or taxi too far along (the runway) when landing or taking off.
--n.
1 the act of overshooting.
2 the amount of this.
Idiom
overshoot the mark go beyond what is intended or proper; go too far. overshot wheel a waterwheel operated by the weight of water falling into buckets attached to its periphery.
THESAURUS
overshoot
alight, come down, come in, crash-land, descend, ditch, downwind, exaggerate, exceed, go beyond, land, level off, light, overdo, overgo, overjump, overleap, overpass, overreach, overrun, overshoot the field, overshoot the mark, overstep, overstride, pancake, pass, settle down, superabound, surpass, talk down, touch down, transcend, upwind
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