overdraw
/ˈoʊvɚdɹˌɔ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To draw over the top of existing content.
verb
To draw the air in through a harmonica while adjusting the mouth so that the note goes up a half tone.
noun
The process by which, during the rendering of a three-dimensional scene, a pixel is replaced by one that is closer to the viewpoint, as determined by their Z coordinates.
Countable; Uncountable
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- Proto-Indo-European *dʰrógʰ-e-ti Proto-Germanic *draganą Proto-West Germanic *dragan Old English dragan Middle English drawen English draw English overdraw From over- + draw.