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overposted

overposted is the simple past and past participle of overpost.

Meaning of overpost

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
  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
  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
  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

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Questions about overposted

What is overposted the simple past and past participle of?
Overposted is the simple past and past participle of overpost.

Words near overposted in the dictionary

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

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