overreach

overreach englannista suomeksi

1. pilata liialla yrittämisellä

2. puijata

0. Verbi

0. Substantiivi

overreach englanniksi

1. To reach above or beyond, especially to an excessive degree. (defdate)

(synonyms)

2. (quote-book)|year_published=1826|volume=VI|page=228|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/worksfrancisbac22montgoog/page/n242/mode/1up|oclc=625264199|passage=... I cannot forget what the poet (w) saith; "O quantum est subitis casibus ingenium!" signifying, that accident is many times more subtle than foresight, and overreacheth expectation; ...

3. (quote-journal); R. Hunter,(nb...)|year=1835|volume=IX (New Series)|page=637|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4HoUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA637|oclc=7182434|passage=Writhing under his deficiency of means, he &91;(w)&93; struggled to supersede practice, overreach time, and bound at once to the conclusion.

4. (quote-book)|year=1836|page=151|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=tUtAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA151|oclc=236075778|passage=The most ''eloquent'' manner of reading and of speaking, is the most ''easy'' of attainment, if sought for through the proper channel; for it is as simple as it is natural. But many who aim at it, fail by the very ''efforts'' adopted to gain it. They overreach the mark. They shoot too high. Instead of breathing forth their sentiments in the fervid glow of simple nature, which always warms, and animates, and interests the hearer, they work themselves up into a sort of frigid bombast, which chills and petrifies him.

5. (quote-journal)|date=6 November 1878|year_published=1881|volume=XX|section=paragraph 98|page=93|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=lDBAAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA93|issn=0270-2444|oclc=479144910|passage=Beneath fastigium of ''Conocephalus hebes'', a species of bush-cricket, the whole forms a depending pointed cone, whose sides are scarcely less than a right angle with each other, and are separated by a pretty wide frontal incisure, by the slightly tuberculated tip of the front of the face which it overreaches.

6. (quote-book): A Poet’s Daring Life|location=Lanham, Md.|publisher=Madison Books, & Littlefield|Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group|year=2003|page=206|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ErbTR1Z_DHkC&pg=PA206|isbn=978-1-56833-253-6|passage=In September 1926, ... he Hepburn overreached his strength in his walks over the mountains and passes of his beloved Lake district, suffered leg injuries, and "was found in an exhausted condition and taken to a neighboring inn."

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8. To defeat or override a person's interest in property; of a holder of the legal title of property: by mortgaging or selling the legal title to a party, to cause another person's equitable right in the property to be dissolved and to be replaced by an equitable right in the money received from the third party.

9. (quote-book)|year=1813|page=452|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9pkDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA452|oclc=9314992|passage=An equitable mortgage, by deposit of deeds to a person, ''bona fide'', and without notice, will give him a preferable equity; and will overreach the vendor's equitable lien on the estate for any part of the purchase-money.

10. (quote-journal)|title=Kellogg vs. Wood|editor=C. Paige|Alonzo Christopher Paige|journal=Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Chancery of the State of New-York|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Published by Gould, Banks & Co.(nb...); Albany, N.Y.: William & A. Gould & Co.(nb...)|date=21 October 1834|volume=IV|page=616|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y80zAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA616|oclc=22127386|passage=Wood therefore cannot, in equity, be permitted to proceed in his ejectment suit, to recover possession of the land under the title he has acquired from the state, by the attorney general's sale, and which at law overreaches the complainant's title.

11. To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability.

12. (quote-book)|series=L. 1982, chapter 14|year=1982|newversion=quoted in|2ndauthor=Robert S. Peck|chapter2=Just between You and Your Librarian—Library Confidentiality Laws|title2=Libraries, the First Amendment and Cyberspace: What You Need to Know|location2=Chicago, Ill.; London|publisher2=American Library Association|year2=2000|page2=89|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=BofxDI2CB1kC&pg=PA89|isbn2=978-0-8389-0773-3|passage=Records library loans must be protected from the self-appointed guardians of public and private morality and from officials who might overreach their constitutional prerogatives. Without such protection, there would be a chilling effect on our library users as inquiring minds turn away from exploring varied avenues of thought because they fear the potentiality of others knowing their reading history.

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14. Of a horse: to strike the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot. (defdate)

15. (RQ:Florio Worlde of Wordes)

16. (quote-book)|location=Indianapolis, Ind.|publisher=Published for the author; stereotyped at the Franklin Type Foundry,(nb...)|year=1864|section=division I|page=287|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=lTZEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA287|oclc=1049906030|passage=Defective or bad form will predispose a horse to overreach. Bad shoeing will also be liable to cause the hind-foot to catch the forward one.

17. To deceive, to swindle.

18. {{quote-text|en|year=1775|author=Richard Brinsley Sheridan|title=The Duenna|section=II.4

19. (quote-book)|location=London; Hull, Yorkshire|publisher=Joseph Noble,(nb...)|year=1834|page=17|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajxage6R4HcC&pg=PA17|oclc=669710803|passage=In the course of the card game, he so far over-shot the mark as to give her instructions to overreach the others at play; and here the important "still small voice" whispered, "what! if God should call thee to judgment at this moment?"

20. To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.

21. (quote-book)|year=1903|volume=XXV|section=paragraph 5 (Duty of Sail Vessel to Beat Out Her Tack)|page=922|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/americanenglishe25garl/page/922/mode/1up|oclc=838104093|passage=Where a sail vessel close hauled and a steam vessel approach so as to involve risk of collision, the rule requiring the sail vessel to keep her course requires her to beat out her tack. ... She is not required to tack short on signal from the steam vessel when there is danger in so doing, nor need she remain in stays or overreach longer than usual when such measures are not apparently necessary to avoid a collision.

22. To the better of, especially by artifice or cunning; to outwit. (defdate)

23. (RQ:Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew)

24. (RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet Q1-2)

25. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)

26. (quote-book)|chapter=II|translator=William Marshal pseudonym|title=Castle of Otranto|The Castle of Otranto: A Story: Translated ... from the Original Italian|location=London|publisher=Printed for Thomas Lownds|year=1764|oclc=325125189|title2=The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story|edition2=3rd|location2=London|publisher2=Printed for William Bathoe(nb...)|year2=1766|page2=74|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=WR4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA74|oclc2=1008346072|passage=... ''Manfred'', who concluded that he had either over-reached the good man, or that his firſt warmth had been but a tribute paid to appearance, was overjoyed at his ſudden turn ...

27. (quote-book)|edition=3rd corrected|location=London|publisher=Printed for (w),(nb...)|year=1803|page=83|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OjxfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA83|oclc=891130864|passage=What is essentially beneficial to one party is materially detrimental to another: they have been enemies before, and may be enemies again: so that they are constantly endeavouring to overreach each other by some separate advantage, and serious causes of animosity and dissension are perpetually arising.

28. (RQ:Thackeray Pendennis)|71

29. An act of extending or reaching over, especially if too far or too much; overextension.

30. (quote-book), (w); States Government Publishing Office|United States Government Printing Office|date=3 November 2010|year_published=2013|volume_plain=book II (July 1 to December 31, 2010)|page=1723|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=lM-PxGTexLMC&pg=PA1723|oclc=1023457156|passage=That's something that I think everyone in the White House understood was danger. We thought it was necessary, But I'm sympathetic to folks who looked at it and said, this is looking like potential overreach.

31. (quote-book) and American Religious Conservatism|location=Chapel Hill, N.C.|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|year=2015|page=186|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=FTJdBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA186|isbn=978-1-4696-2274-3|passage=When American society finally collapses under the combined weight of massive foreign debt, military overreach, and internal decadence, North (economist)|Gary North and his followers at Tyler hoped to have a network of churches ready to step into the breach.

32. (quote-web) ((w)) cuts the radio feed during a mission gone wrong.

33. (quote-journal)

34. Of a horse: an act of striking the heel of a forefoot with the toe of a hindfoot; an injury caused by this action.

35. (quote-journal)|month=April|year=1833|volume=I|issue=6|page=424|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=H9MKAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA17-PP16|oclc=64221043|passage=The hunter's ''i.e.'', hunting horse's legs should be washed with warm water, carefully examined for thorns, overreaches, &c., and the legs should be rubbed dry, and well hand rubbed, by which means a free circulation of the blood will be promoted.

36. (quote-journal)|location=Charleston, S.C.|publisher=Printed and published for the editor, by A. E. Miller,(nb...)|month=October|year=1833|volume=VI|issue=10|section=part II (Selections)|page=547|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=b7pMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA547|oclc=699792606|passage=''Overreach''.—This unpleasant noise, known also by the terms ‘clicking’, ‘overreach’, &c., arises from the toe of the hind foot knocking against the shoe of the fore foot.