What's the difference between countermand and override?

Countermand


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.
  • (v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
  • (v. t.) To oppose; to revoke the command of.
  • (n.) A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I mean I wasn’t trying to countermand his authority but he was a little anxious … I don’t think he realized that he hit the artery and I remember saying you’ve got the artery.
  • (2) The ORG believes that it can stop the bill coming into force, on the basis that it countermands a European court ruling that blanket data retention is unlawful and violates the right to privacy, breaching human rights.
  • (3) That she “oversteps the mark” – countermanding ministers and participating in top-level meetings and even cabinet discussions in ways senior Coalition figures believe is inappropriate for an unelected official.
  • (4) In addition they show that while 2'-modification were tolerated by the phosphodiesterase, addition of an 8-substituent countermanded the allowable 2'-modification.
  • (5) The clearest instance of division was when Shamir countermanded Peres's so-called London Agremeent for an international peace conference, arranged with King Hussein of Jordan and secretly signed in the London home of the lawyer Lord Mischon in 1987.
  • (6) By countermanding first the landslide victory of an elected government and then a 61% plebiscite majority, the EU functionally vetoed the outcomes of Greek democracy.
  • (7) A countermanding procedure and race model are used to assess separately the effects of experimental factors before and after the "point of no return" in response preparation.
  • (8) The myth busters of the left talk about how low actual fraud on disability benefits is, as if they can countermand this image: the disabled person who doesn't look disabled and yet says they are disabled, and yet how can we truly know they're disabled?
  • (9) Both intrinsic and extrinsic adjuvanticity is the operational production of countermanding signals; (4) memory T cells are qualitatively different from normal T cells in their sensitivity to feedback signals and also in their susceptibility to suppression; (5) mature thymus dependent B cells cannot be rendered tolerant by the direct action of antigen, while immature and thymus independent B cells can; (6) the mechanism of suppression induced by exogenously administered antigens and that by normal differentiation products (i.e.
  • (10) The FTC Act prohibits “unfair and deceptive” acts and practices, which Epic alleges Facebook’s actions within the Cornell study countermand.
  • (11) A short-latency, phasic lengthening of interbeat interval was suggested to reflect the midbrain coordination of the countermanding of response execution.
  • (12) Immune responses only occur when countermanding signals are also generated.
  • (13) Potential donors would prefer a legally recognized donor card that cannot be countermanded by the next of kin.
  • (14) Although the mean K of AIB was higher in brain tumors of the hypertensive rats, the increase is unlikely to be meaningful in terms of augmented delivery of water-soluble drugs to brain tumors, and the high incidence of intracerebral hemorrhage countermands any clinical use of this approach.

Override


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To ride over or across; to ride upon; to trample down.
  • (v. t.) To suppress; to destroy; to supersede; to annul; as, one low overrides another; to override a veto.
  • (v. t.) To ride beyond; to pass; to outride.
  • (v. t.) To ride too much; to ride, as a horse, beyond its strength.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because haptenated cells can induce immunity if injected subcutaneously or into cyclophosphamide-pretreated recipients (thereby avoiding the induction of suppressor cells), we suggest that the activation of contrasuppressor cells by antigen-antibody complexes overrides suppressive influences in the host, allowing immunity to become dominant.
  • (2) Although B12 supplementation results in a 10-fold repression of metE-lacZ expression, homocysteine addition to the growth medium overrides the B12-mediated repression.
  • (3) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
  • (4) As a result, more and more people are beginning to look towards Irish reunification as being a real possibility.” The overriding issue, however, in this most marginal constituency in Northern Ireland is the old binary, sectarian one: the zero-sum game of orange versus green.
  • (5) For now, the overriding feeling is helplessness, tinged with shame for the last year of passivity.
  • (6) The negative feedback inhibition of physiological concentrations of IGF-I on GH, therefore, appears to override the potent stimulation of GH by these intracellular messengers.
  • (7) Glycosylation failed to completely override the transport block, but allowed some uncleaved hGH-DAF to pass through the secretory pathway and acquire endoglycosidase H resistance.
  • (8) Throughout, our correspondent establishes his overriding desire simply to be useful, even when he fears he might not be; to Charles Clarke, secretary of state for education – “If you can bear to receive a report on this year’s Education Summer School from someone with such old-fashioned views (!)
  • (9) Under some conditions, visual information can override auditory information to the extent that identification judgments of a visually influenced syllable can be as consistent as for an analogous audiovisually compatible syllable.
  • (10) A direction from the family court that an asylum seeker should have access to a child in Australia does not override the department’s obligation to remove the asylum seeker.
  • (11) These results demonstrate that ET-1 and possibly other vasoactive substances of endothelial origin, override the compensatory mechanism of normal pregnancy with respect to the blunted responsiveness to AII and VP.
  • (12) The overriding common features of these ailments are the gender of their sufferers and the behavioral symptoms they exhibit.
  • (13) It could be used: (1) to assure that only patients actually ingesting medication are used to evaluate new drugs, (2) to study the factors that influence compliance and strategies to improve compliance, (3) to prevent escalation to more toxic drugs or expensive diagnostic procedures when failure to respond is due to poor compliance, (4) to supervise compliance when society has an overriding interest in therapeutic success, and (5) to monitor the effects of air pollution.
  • (14) Possible explanations for this lack of effect include (1) interactions with NMDA receptor channels are pressure dependent; (2) other actions of these antagonists override their effects on the NMDA receptor channel.
  • (15) There is certainly no chance of the sort of "democratic override" that Pinto-Duschinsky himself favours.
  • (16) Now the vote is in, the overriding sense is of surprise and uncertainty.
  • (17) The diagnosis of overriding mitral valve should be suspected in any patient with significant conotruncal anomalies and underdeveloped left ventricle, especially the patient with double outlet right ventricle, and in the patient with endocardial cushion defect, hypoplasia of the left ventricle, and obstructive anomalies of the aortic arch.
  • (18) Filtering and randomization of stimulus timing may attenuate the effects of these overriding potentials.
  • (19) The difference in kinetics for reversal between these two treatments suggests that myo-inositol addition overrides a biochemical pathway while Ca2+ addition supplants a phosphoinositide-mediated rise in the cation that may be necessary for anaphase onset.
  • (20) A conclusion is offered that the quality of residential care is dependent on the interaction of variables rather than on the presence of any single overridingly powerful factor.