OVERSHOOT (overshot)

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Irregular inflected form: overshot   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does overshoot mean? 

• OVERSHOOT (noun)
  The noun OVERSHOOT has 1 sense:

1. an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt

  Familiarity information: OVERSHOOT used as a noun is very rare.

• OVERSHOOT (verb)
  The verb OVERSHOOT has 2 senses:

1. shoot beyond or over (a target)

2. aim too high

  Familiarity information: OVERSHOOT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERSHOOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An approach that fails and gives way to another attempt

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

go-around; overshoot; wave-off

Hypernyms ("overshoot" is a kind of...):

landing approach (the approach to a landing field by an airplane)

Derivation:

overshoot (aim too high)

• OVERSHOOT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overshoot    ... he / she / it overshoots   
Past simple: overshot   
Past participle: overshot   
-ing form: overshooting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shoot beyond or over (a target)

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "overshoot" is one way to...):

blast; shoot (fire a shot)

miss (fail to reach)

"Overshoot" entails doing...:

aim; direct; take; take aim; train (point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

undershoot (shoot short of or below (a target))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Aim too high

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

The plan overshoots its aim

Hypernyms (to "overshoot" is one way to...):

aim; aspire; draw a bead on; shoot for (have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overshoot"):

overrun (run beyond or past)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

overshoot (an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt)

 Context examples 

“Better to overshoot than to undershoot,” added Aylward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Example patterns include: minimal or marked variability, absent variability without recurrent decelerations, absence of induced accelerations after fetal stimulation, recurrent variable decelerations with minimal or moderate variability, prolonged decelerations, recurrent late decelerations with moderate variability and variable decelerations with slow return to baseline, overshoots or shoulders.

(Indeterminate Continuous Cardiotocography Pattern, NCI Thesaurus)

“I have little doubt that you can overshoot me, and yet I have seen bowmen who could send a cloth-yard arrow further than you could speed a quarrel.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have clean overshot the butts this time, mon camarade.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You can overshoot me,” said Johnston gently.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)