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Overall   /ˈoʊvərˌɔl/   Listen
Overall

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



... partners: Morocco claims and administers Western Sahara, so trade partners are included in overall Moroccan accounts ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... makes right" formula was in violent conflict with the "love and serve your neighbor" professions of Christian ethics. Nevertheless, it was the accepted overall principle of private enterprise economy and the ruling ethic of Western statecraft. The principle was formulated in ...
— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

... up enough fuss in this free-falling anthill to give them all the worries they need. Tell me what's the overall effect?" ...
— A Spaceship Named McGuire • Gordon Randall Garrett

... was a man of great pride, that his calm, firm gaze seemed to reflect thinking on an elevated plane, and that the harmony of his facial expressions and bodily movements resulted in an overall effect of unquestionable candor— according to the findings of physiognomists, ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne

... on the window-ledge. Meantime a roadman was cleaning a gutter, a thatcher pegged down his yelm; a milkmaid, driving up the street in a float, stopped, threw the reins over the pony's quarters, and jumped down, very trim in her overall and breeches. ...
— In a Green Shade - A Country Commentary • Maurice Hewlett

... in a long time and, with all the wisdom of hindsight, I wondered how anyone could have ever doubted the outcome. We had known all along that every bit of atomic matter in each cell is replaced many times in one lifetime, electron by electron, without the cell's overall form disappearing. Now, by equally gradual steps, it had happened in the vaster arena of ...
— Man Made • Albert R. Teichner

... ne'er-do-weel, destined never to achieve fortune or gain an etat, and he was quite right. My war experience had made me reckless of life, and speculation was firing every heart. I bought myself a pair of long, strong, overall boots and blanket, borrowed a revolver, arranged money affairs with Mr. Lea, who always acted with the greatest generosity, intelligence, and kindness, packed my carpet-bag, and departed. It was midwinter, ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

... but Mrs. Sarah Battle was not more scrupulous than he in observing the rigour of the game. Christian was manacled with the belt of her own overall, and was hauled along the golden, but despised, gravel of the river strand, to the spot whence the ...
— Mount Music • E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross

... been the subject of a most extensive literature.[46] He aroused considerable contemporary hostility and satire and his overall significance for medical science is probably slight, with a few striking exceptions. Robert Boyle is ...
— Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England - Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 • Charles W. Bodemer

... these widely scattered experimental plantings presented quite a problem. Examination of a few plantings showed that trees given reasonable care had survived and were beginning to bear nuts. So in 1946, the farmers who had planted the trees were polled by mail for an overall evaluation of the plantings. Questionnaires asking for information on survival, growth, and bearing were sent by the state extension foresters to 3,274 farmers. The return of questionnaires was excellent. Forty-two percent came back and three-fourths ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... 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 ...
— Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway • Steve Solomon

... enough about it to give any reliable opinion on the merits of Canadian Railways at present. The clothing required in towns seems decidedly dearer than it is in England. What may be called the specialities of the country, such as overall working suits, jack-boots, etc., are cheaper. I can't say anything about living yet, $5 50c. clears all shoals, washing included, in Montreal, and 6 or 7 would do the same in most country hotels, though ...
— Canada for Gentlemen • James Seton Cockburn

... the best departmental stores or factories in the City. Indeed, after nightfall, when they are all lighted up for the evening technical classes and when their testing machinery is in full swing and there are students going in and out in overall suits, people have often mistaken the university, or this newer part of it, for a factory. A foreign visitor once said that the students looked like plumbers, and President Boomer was so proud of it that he put the phrase ...
— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock



Words linked to "Overall" :   United Kingdom, Great Britain, coverall, U.K., general, work-clothing, Britain, work-clothes, gross, UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland



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