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overpost

overpost verb: to post too much or too often.

Verb

overpost (third-person singular simple present overposts, present participle overposting, simple past and past participle overposted)

  1. To post too much or too often.
    • The result would be that he either overposts his work which necessitates adjournments with inconvenience all round ; or underposts, the consequence of which is delay in disposal.1964, Bombay (India : State). Committee on the Separation of the Judiciary from the Executive, Report of the Committee on the Separation of the Judiciary from the Executive
    • Because the post office processes metered mail faster, your mail will reach its destination sconer. You'll never have to overpost another letter again.1988, Government Executive - Volume 20, page 10
  2. To pass over swiftly, as if by post.
    • You may thank the unquiet time for your quiet o'erposting that action.1599, Shakespeare, Henry IV, part II
  3. To print a text label or other graphic feature on top of another symbol.
    • ...labels must be positioned to avoid overposting, but without destroying the eye's ability to associate labels with appropriate features.1990, Michael F. Goodchild, Karen Kathleen Kemp, NCGIA Core Curriculum: Introduction to GIS, page 17-4
    • In the other method, a mapping program may have the ability to avoid overposting.1990, J. A. Coffeen, Seismic on screen: an introduction to interactive interpretation, →ISBN
  4. To place a poster so that it covers all or part of another poster.
    • Weathering and overposting of other posters destroyed most of the press run...1994, Designed to Sell, →ISBN
    • The practice of overposting for the purpose of assuring suffcient advertising exposures for fulfilling the terms of contracts with advertisers will be permitted provided, however, that the required number of spaces for public service advertising are maintained as available and that any overposting...1998, Beverly R. Silverberg, Transit Advertising Revenue: Traditional and New Sources and Structures, →ISBN
  5. To breach security by overwriting data that is not intended for user input.
    • The major problem here is the approach of using the domain object directly as the parameter for the action method that allows a user to overpost.2013, Badrinarayanan Lakshmiraghavan, Pro ASP.NET Web API Security: Securing ASP.NET Web API, →ISBN, page 349
    • The Bind attribute is used to protect against overposting attacks by creating a list of safe properties to update; however, as we will discuss later, it does not work as expected and so it is safer to use a different method for editing or creating where some values may be blank. As an example of...2016, Lee Naylor, ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework and CSS, →ISBN, page 19

Noun

overpost (plural overposts)

  1. An entry that has been posted more than once to a journal.
    • On Feb. 1, 1879, I discover that, though the Ledger of 1878 had been closed and balanced, the amount brought forward as due by W. Tarn should have been £52 14s. id. (not £32 15s. id.); and this is found to have been caused by an overpost to his credit from a correct Journal entry.1883, John Hunter, Supplementary book-keeping by double entry, page 28
  2. An overlap of two graphic elements.
    • Mapping programs such as SACM have automatic overpost deletion routines but useful data often are eliminated.1980, Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, Petroleum exploration
    • Even when the plot scale allows sufficient space for posting, overposts can occur because of the orientation of the lines.1985, William R. Green, Computer-Aided Data Analysis: A Practical Guide, page 124

Examples of overpost in a sentence

  • In questioning by Plaintiff Attorney, and his attempts to gain testimony through you over the use of what is prudent or what is not, I think you said it is not prudent to overpost?2006, Marvin J. Naus, Hidden Death Trap, →ISBN, page 146:
  • You can overpost and wear out your welcome.2017, Michael Miller, My Social Media for Seniors, →ISBN:
  • Generally, shot point data have less overposting when the data is posted perpendicular to the orientation of the seismic line.1992, Denver GeoTech ...: Proceedings, page 171:
  • As an example of overposting, consider a scenario where the price is submitted as part of the request when a user submits an order for a product.2016, Lee Naylor, ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework and CSS, →ISBN, page 19:

Forms of overpost

Verb
third-person singular presentoverposts
present participleoverposting
past participleoverposted
pastoverposted
Noun
pluraloverposts

Origin of overpost

From over- + post.

Questions about overpost

What does overpost mean?
Overpost means to post too much or too often.
How do you use overpost in a sentence?
In questioning by Plaintiff Attorney, and his attempts to gain testimony through you over the use of what is prudent or what is not, I think you said it is not prudent to overpost?
What part of speech is overpost?
Overpost can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of overpost?
The past tense of overpost is overposted.

Words near overpost in the dictionary

  1. overpopulations
  2. overpopulous
  3. overpopulousness
  4. overpositive
  5. overpossessive
  6. overpost
  7. overposted
  8. overposter
  9. overposters
  10. overposting
  11. overposts

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