overdrive meaning

• Verb: overdrive (overdrove,overdriven)  `owvur'drIv
  1. Drive or work too hard
     "Overdriving people often suffer stress" 
  2. Make use of too often or too extensively
     - overuse
  Noun: overdrive  'owvu`drIv
  1. The state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration
     "Troops are ready to go into overdrive as soon as the signal is given"; "Melissa's brain was in overdrive" 
  2. A high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed with less output power

  Derived forms: overdrove, overdriving, overdriven, overdrives

  Type of: action, activeness, activity, apply, employ, exploit, high, high gear, overwork, use, utilise [Brit], utilize

  Encyclopedia: Overdrive

• 
  [Mechanical engineering]
  "An automobile engine device that lowers the gear ratio, thereby reducing fuel consumption."
• 
  [Computer]
  <processor> An Intel Pentium processor which fits into a socket designed to accomodate an Intel 486, or into a special upgrade socket on the motherboard.

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• "overdrive" meaning in Chinese: vt. (overdrove; -driven ) 驱使过度；使负担过度；使(人)操劳过度；【无线电】使激励过度。...
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