overcodes

Verb

overcode (third-person singular simple present overcodes, present participle overcoding, simple past and past participle overcoded)

1. To use as an overcode for.
   • Social interaction would be the place to study how people learn these cultural codes or reasoning structures, which is related to the human ability to overcode meaning in ways that become conventional (Eco 1976).1984, Semiotica - Volumes 50-51, page 367
2. To act as an overcode for.
   • In one example, she describes an advertisement depictin a nude female torso in profile. Wegenstein suggests that in this particular advertisement, the breasts overcode the body in a way that the face previously had reign.2007, M. Fenske, Tattoos in American Visual Culture, →ISBN, page 105
3. To use a particular code or set of codes too much.
   • One of the greatest sources of unreliability is the constant error introduced by the observer because of distortion of his perceptions created by his own needs or values. An observer who sharply disapproves of certain leadership practices, for example, will have difficulty in preventing a bias. He...1951, Research Methods in Social Relations: Selected techniques, page 530
4. To code too many things or include too many codes in a coding system.
   • Coding should be done with great exactness: it is better to "overcode" than to "undercode."1972, Alice Schlegel, Male dominance and female autonomy

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