How do you use Overwrites in a sentence? See 7 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Overwrites meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of overwrite
Using Overwrites
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of overwrite
- In the example corpus, overwrites often appears in combinations such as: overwrites it.
Context around Overwrites
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overwrites
- In this selection, "overwrites" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, diskpart, insertion, technique and dynamic stand out and add context to how "overwrites" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include diskpart overwrites all data and each insertion overwrites a single. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overwrites" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overwrites
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Each insertion overwrites a single value: the value being inserted. (10 words)
It doesn’t simply edit out your imperfections — it overwrites your existence. (12 words)
Diskpart overwrites all data on the hard drive with zeros, which is considered a secure deletion method for traditional hard drives (HDDs). (22 words)
However, if the key of the new item exactly matches the key of an old item, the associative array typically erases the old item and overwrites it with the new item, so every item in the table has a unique key. (41 words)
By failing to check the length of the string, it also overwrites the value of B: B's value has now been inadvertently replaced by a number formed from part of the character string. (34 words)
Because the attacker (theoretically) does not know what value will be used to encode/decode the pointer, he cannot predict what it will point to if he overwrites it with a new value. (33 words)
Example sentences (7)
Diskpart overwrites all data on the hard drive with zeros, which is considered a secure deletion method for traditional hard drives (HDDs).
It doesn’t simply edit out your imperfections — it overwrites your existence.
Because the attacker (theoretically) does not know what value will be used to encode/decode the pointer, he cannot predict what it will point to if he overwrites it with a new value.
By failing to check the length of the string, it also overwrites the value of B: B's value has now been inadvertently replaced by a number formed from part of the character string.
Each insertion overwrites a single value: the value being inserted.
However, if the key of the new item exactly matches the key of an old item, the associative array typically erases the old item and overwrites it with the new item, so every item in the table has a unique key.
The canonical heap overflow technique overwrites dynamic memory allocation linkage (such as malloc meta data) and uses the resulting pointer exchange to overwrite a program function pointer.
Common combinations with overwrites
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- overwrites it 2×