What does overnight mean?
Definitions for overnight
ˈoʊ vərˈnaɪt; ˈoʊ vərˌnaɪtovernight
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Princeton's WordNet
nightlong, all-night, overnightadverb
lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
"a nightlong vigil"; "an all-night drugstore"; "an overnight trip"
overnightadverb
during or for the length of one night
"the fish marinates overnight"
overnightadverb
happening in a short time or with great speed
"these solutions cannot be found overnight!"
GCIDE
overnightadverb
During the night; hence, in a short period of time; as, his prospects of winning changed overnight.
overnightadjective
Ocurring or accomplished during one night; as, guaranteed overnight delivery of a package.
Wiktionary
overnightnoun
Items delivered or completed overnight.
Have you looked at the overnights yet?
overnightnoun
An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
overnightverb
To stay overnight; to spend the night.
overnightverb
To send something for delivery the next day.
We can overnight you the documents for signature.
overnightadverb
Throughout the night
Let it run overnight and we'll check on it in the morning.
overnightadverb
During a single night
They delivered the package overnight.
overnightadverb
In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time
The change seemed to happen overnight.
overnightadjective
Occurring between dusk and dawn.
The overnight ferry docked at 10AM.
overnightadjective
Complete before the next morning.
Don't expect results overnight.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Overnightnoun
This seems to be used by Shakespeare as a noun, but by Addison more properly, as I have before placed it, as a noun with a preposition. Night before bed-time.
Etymology: over and night.
If I had given you this at over-night,
She might have been o’erta’en. William Shakespeare.Will confesses, that for half his life his head ached every morning with reading men over-night. Addison.
Freebase
Overnight
Overnight is a 2003 documentary by Tony Montana and Mark Brian Smith. The film details the rise and fall of filmmaker and musician Troy Duffy, the writer-director of The Boondock Saints, and was filmed at his request. Duffy is presented as a victim of his own ego, and as the film progresses and his fortunes fade Duffy becomes increasingly abusive to his friends, relatives and business partners. According to co-director Montana, "Troy seemed to revel in the attention of Hollywood's lights and our cameras. Only three times during the production did he ask not to be filmed. It was on those occasions that he threatened us."
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Overnight
ō′vėr-nīt, n. the forepart of the evening, esp. that of the day just past.—adv. during the night: on the evening of the day just past.
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Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'overnight' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4254
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'overnight' in Adverbs Frequency: #401
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of overnight in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of overnight in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of overnight in a Sentence
They started as an overnight letter company. But even before there was email, Fred Smith correctly surmised that fax would overtake the overnight letter, you have to admire the tenacity with which Fred Smith's continued to stay ahead of the curve.
The past year, I would argue, has been the worst on record for human rights in Azerbaijan since the breakup of the Soviet Union, i don't think it's fair to expect countries to have perfect transitions overnight, or maybe even in 24 years (since Soviet disintegration in the region, in 1991). But I do think it's fair to expect them to not regress significantly.
This hack or any other major hack will not cause the millennial generation to change their habits overnight, we're talking about changing the mindset of an entire generation that generally grew up to be very trusting with their digital information.
I think the fundamental issue here are the resources, i don't want to give you exactly the numbers, but it's about half the resources in this bill that were in Obamacare. Now, I can tell you we can do with less resources, but you can't do it overnight and you can't give people a $3,000 or 4,000 health insurance policy. You know where they're going to be? They're going to be living in the emergency rooms again.
Overall, the tone of the market has gotten much better in the last week, and nothing happened overnight to dent that optimism, even with China down nearly 6 percent.
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Translations for overnight
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- цяла нощBulgarian
- dros nosWelsh
- pludselig, natten over, i nattens løb, straksDanish
- über Nacht, Logiernacht, übernachtenGerman
- pernoctar, de la noche a la mañana, de un día para otro, nocturnoSpanish
- yhdessä yössä, yöpyminen, yön yli, yöpyäFinnish
- nocturne, du jour au lendemainFrench
- da un giorno all'altro, notturno, da un momento all'altroItalian
- 一夜Japanese
- 일박Korean
- overnachten, van de ene dag op de andere, 's nachtsDutch
- over nattenNorwegian
- pernoite, noturno, pernoitarPortuguese
- sur notgRomansh
- одночасье, заночева́ть, [[за́]] [[ночь]], переночева́ть, внеза́пно, ночева́ть, ночно́й, [[весь, ночёвка, вдругRussian
- övernattningSwedish
- на нічUkrainian
- ở qua đêmVietnamese
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