overposts
overposts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overpost.
overposts is the plural of overpost.
Meaning of overpost
Verb
overpost (third-person singular simple present overposts, present participle overposting, simple past and past participle overposted)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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