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单词 overpass
释义

overpass

English

A 1905 overpass over a road in Lewin Kłodzki, Poland

Etymology

over- + pass

Pronunciation

  • (noun) IPA(key): /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pæs/, /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)pɑːs/
  • (verb) IPA(key): /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpæs/, /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈpɑːs/

Noun

overpass (plural overpasses) (chiefly US, Canada, Philippines)

  1. A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.
    The homeless man had built a little shelter, complete with cook-stove, beneath a concrete overpass.
    • 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, ISSN 0027-9358, OCLC 1049714034, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:
      By visible evidence, this Saturday morning is a comparatively placid one. Earlier in the week a young man had died after being stabbed in a flat, and from the overpass at Archway Road, darkly referred to as “suicide bridge,” another man had jumped to his death.

Synonyms

  • flyover (UK)

Antonyms

  • underpass (US, UK), subway (UK)

Translations

See also

  • underpass
  • overbridge

Verb

overpass (third-person singular simple present overpasses, present participle overpassing, simple past and past participle overpassed)

  1. To pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road.
    Gillian watched the overpassing shoppers on the second floor of the mall, as she relaxed in the bench on the ground floor.
  2. (transitive) To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal.
    Marshall was really overpassing his authority when he ordered the security guards to fire their tasers at the trespassers.
    The precocious student had really overpassed her peers, and was reading books written for children several years older.
    • 1877, Aeschylus, Robert Browning, transl., The Agamemnon of Æschylus, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., [], OCLC 749890141, page 31:
      Thou who didst fling on Troia's every tower / The o'er-roofing snare, that neither great thing might, / Nor any of the young ones, overpass / Captivity's great sweep-net— []
  3. (transitive) To disregard, skip, or miss something.
    “Don’t overpass those cheeses; they’re really quite excellent!” gushed Terry, pointing to the buffet table.
    • 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: [] J. M[acock] for John Starkey [], OCLC 228732398, lines 197–198:
      A youth, how all the beauties of the East / He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed.

Synonyms

  • (to pass above): pass over, transpass
  • (to exceed a limit): overgo, surpass, transgress; see also Thesaurus:transcend
  • (to disregard): misregard, miss, overlook, take no notice of; see also Thesaurus:ignore or Thesaurus:fail to notice

Anagrams

  • Passover, pass over, passover
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