What's the difference between outshine and overhang?

Outshine


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shine forth.
  • (v. t.) To excel in splendor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And an outstanding team of ministers who easily outshine anything the other parties can offer."
  • (2) As we report, Johnson, fresh from outshining Cameron at the post-Olympics rally, is planning a series of appearances both at the Tory party conference in Birmingham next month and afterwards during which he will focus on his successes in 2012 – securing re-election as London mayor in May and fronting the Olympics.
  • (3) He also gave what was widely seen as by far the best speech of the party convention season, outshining Obama's own effort in Charlotte.
  • (4) They did not want a Tony Blair or a David Miliband or forceful German or French politicians strutting the international stage, setting the policy agenda and outshining them.
  • (5) Money, connections and media attention can be a gift for a young scion seeking to outshine his or her famous parent, but they can also be a curse and some, like Jones, go to great lengths to avoid them.
  • (6) Thirty years after he first took home the coveted prize, the 67-year-old singer-songwriter became the oldest recipient of a Brit award on a night that saw the old guard outshine music's young starlets.
  • (7) What remains are the films and the discs, equalling in their mastery and outshining in their breadth those of his equals, Furtwängler and Toscanini.
  • (8) Johnson is expected to talk with great wit, some self-deprecation, and many references to the classics, about his brilliant summer outshining the prime minister.
  • (9) Yet critics say that no matter how much cash is in the system, China will not outshine Hollywood until its film-makers are given more creative space.
  • (10) Mr Miliband could not just play safe, but had to outshine his brother Ed, who stressed core Labour values without clearly defining them, and also the plain-speaking Andy Burnham, who talks bluntly about everyday anxieties – such as scrambling around for cash for the meter – in a manner that will force both Milibands to keep their message simple.
  • (11) Our planet would seem, in Carl Sagan's phrase, a " pale blue dot ", very close to a star (our sun) that outshines it many billion times – a firefly next to a searchlight.
  • (12) Like many on the autism spectrum, the young man in his 20s possessed an impressive range of IT skills to match or even outshine most university graduates.
  • (13) The biggest surprise, though, is that Gustavo also ran 16.3km with the ball at his feet, once again outshining the Barcelona forward.
  • (14) Why did Robin Day become a national institution, one of the most immediately recognised people in the land, outshining in reputation and respect other television stars whose shows commanded far larger audience figures, and, as he much resented, far higher salaries?
  • (15) In a world of competing "starchitects", whose celebrity reputations often outshine their buildings, none come more starry than Gehry.
  • (16) Martin said he did not fear being eclipsed as the main opposition party by Sinn Fein, some of whose Dáil deputies outshine Fianna Fáil ones in debates inside the Irish parliament.
  • (17) Difficulties occur only with the retroillumination photography in that the infrared light for imaging may outshine the red fixation light during exposure.
  • (18) The advantage of better illumination must, nevertheless, be paid for with a levelling of contrast, as the bright light outshines the fine differences (e.g., tubercles in yhr mucous membrane).
  • (19) The massive sales haul of Band Aid 30 , which features Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, One Direction, Olly Murs, Rita Ora and Bastille, outshines Band Aid 20’s first-week sales in 2004 - their version of the song sold 297,000 in its first seven days.
  • (20) Luckily for Cameron, the UK could outshine the rest of Europe, with a 10% boost to economic output per head and 400,000 jobs in the long-term, according to the Bertelsmann Foundation, based in Germany.

Overhang


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To impend or hang over.
  • (v. t.) To hang over; to jut or project over.
  • (v. i.) To jut over.
  • (n.) In a general sense, that which just out or projects; a projection; also, the measure of the projection; as, the overhang is five feet.
  • (n.) Specifically: The projection of an upper part (as a roof, an upper story, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as, the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc.
  • (n.) The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line.
  • (n.) The projection of a part beyond another part that is directly below it, or beyond a part by which it is supported; as, the overhang of a shaft; i. e., its projection beyond its bearing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Marginal overhang was the prevailing type of failure (17%), recurrent caries occurred at 12% of the restorations, unacceptable proximal contact at 10%, unacceptable marginal adaptation at 8% and isthmus fractures at 2%.
  • (2) The enzyme was capable of ligating phi X174 (+) strand DNA to double-stranded oligonucleotides that contained 5'-overhang, 3'-overhand, or blunt ends.
  • (3) Sadly, this warmer weather has left many fashion retailers with a substantial stock overhang, raising the question of earlier and deeper discounts as we get closer to Christmas.
  • (4) Highly purified endonuclease cleaves the DNA of the intronless form of the td gene in vitro at 24 bp upstream of the exon 1-exon 2 junction, generating a 2-base staggered cut with 3'-hydroxyl overhangs.
  • (5) Selective degradation of the dUMP residues in the PCR products with uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG) disrupts base pairing at the termini and generates 3' overhangs.
  • (6) Here we show that the break fragments end in extensive 3'-overhanging, single-stranded tails.
  • (7) When the non-complementary overhanging-ends are short (i.e.
  • (8) All had ulcerating stomatitis, four had partial villous atrophy on small intestinal biopsy, all had colitis characterised by large ulcers with overhanging edges, and four had severe perianal disease; no stool pathogens were detected.
  • (9) For a proper radiographic diagnosis of secondary caries and interproximal overhangs or undercuts, tooth colored inlays and their appropriate luting agents have to be radiopaque.
  • (10) Email from Resins.Man, showing us it's always okay to be sentimental when it comes to baseball games i've only ever been to one baseball game........ ....at Fenway Park back in '79, and I remember it just like David Lengels photo, pillars, overhanging roof, pitch like a widescreen slot.
  • (11) All the small bits of climbing gear that anchored them to the overhanging cliff above had ripped out, one by one, and only one piece was left, a temporary piece, something not meant to hold for long.
  • (12) This isn’t a dark, scary tunnel deep in the mountainside; it’s merely a shallow overhang, big enough to keep the wind and rain at bay, but open enough to prevent any claustrophobia.
  • (13) The surgical blade, and especially the reciprocating motor-driven diamond tip eliminated overhangs better than the chisel.
  • (14) This normal level of end joining is observed regardless of the type of overhang and regardless of the requirement for nucleolytic activities prior to ligation.
  • (15) This takes the form of an eccentrically placed convex stenosis with a narrow neck due to one or more overhanging edges or irregular, scalloped borders, or both.
  • (16) Measurement of rejoining at several adjacent sites having different types of termini, consistently showed a range of efficiencies with 5' 4-base greater than 3' 4-base overhangs and 4-base greater than 2-base greater than no overhang.
  • (17) "We don't want to build up another big debt overhang that is going to hurt individuals and is very much going to slow the economy in the medium term.
  • (18) Complementary oligonucleotides with 5' overhanging deoxyguanosine or deoxycytidine stretches, respectively, of the general form 5'-d(GGGCAARAAC).5'-d(CCCGTTYTTG), where R represents the bases adenine (A), hypoxanthine (base of inosine nucleoside, I), purine (R), 2-aminopurine (n2R), or 2,6-diaminopurine (n2,6(2)R) and where Y represents the pyrimidine bases thymine (T) or cytosine (C), have been chemically synthesized.
  • (19) Furthermore, similar to other ENases encoded by mobile mt introns of yeast, the ENase generates a cut with a four-base 3'-OH overhang.
  • (20) The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of overhanging margins and associated periodontal status in 100 patients who had received completed treatment by final year dental students.

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