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Overall   /ˈoʊvərˌɔl/   Listen
Overall

adjective
1.
Involving only main features.
2.
Including everything.
noun
1.
(usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps).
2.
A loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work.  Synonyms: boilers suit, boilersuit.



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"Overall" Quotes from Famous Books



... it did more damage than all our guns put together. Its concealed location gave it a great advantage overall other guns. ...
— History of Kershaw's Brigade • D. Augustus Dickert
... this was what happened: To begin with, Mr. Virgil Overall, who dealt in lands and houses and sold insurance of all the commoner varieties on the side, had stalked O'Day to this point and was lying in wait for him as he came out of the courthouse into the Public Square, being anxious to describe ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... from the room, got into his air-man suit, covered it with an overall, emptied his cash-box into his pocket, and returned to say good-bye. Kate accompanied ...
— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang
... also worked regularly in the laboratory now, calling it at his suggestion the lab, and stumbling no more over the word. She wore a neat overall with tight sleeves and her hair plainly dressed under a little white, pleated cap. She never now caught anything with her sleeve and switched it off the table; she never let anything drop, and was a most judicious duster ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... receiving end of quite a bit of local lore. I had heard of someone growing unirrigated carrots on sandy soil in southern Oregon by sowing early and spacing the roots 1 foot apart in rows 4 feet apart. The carrots were reputed to grow to enormous sizes, and the overall yield in pounds per square foot occupied by the crop was not as low as one might think. I read that Native Americans in the Southwest grew remarkable desert gardens with little or no water. And that Native South Americans in the highlands of Peru and Bolivia grow ...
— Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway • Steve Solomon


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