overpost

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ post.

Verb

overpost (third-person singular simple present overposts, present participle overposting, simple past and past participle overposted)

1. To post too much or too often.
   • 1964, Bombay (India : State). Committee on the Separation of the Judiciary from the Executive, Report of the Committee on the Separation of the Judiciary from the Executive:

     The result would be that he either overposts his work which necessitates adjournments with inconvenience all round ; or underposts, the consequence of which is delay in disposal.

   • 1988, Government Executive - Volume 20, page 10:

     Because the post office processes metered mail faster, your mail will reach its destination sconer. You'll never have to overpost another letter again.

   • 2006, Marvin J. Naus, Hidden Death Trap, →ISBN, page 146:

     In questioning by Plaintiff Attorney, and his attempts to gain testimony through you over the use of what is prudent or what is not, I think you said it is not prudent to overpost?

   • 2017, Michael Miller, My Social Media for Seniors, →ISBN:

     You can overpost and wear out your welcome.

2. To pass over swiftly, as if by post.
   • 1599, Shakespeare, Henry IV, part II:

     You may thank the unquiet time for your quiet o'erposting that action.

3. (cartography) To print a text label or other graphic feature on top of another symbol.
   • 1990, Michael F. Goodchild, Karen Kathleen Kemp, NCGIA Core Curriculum: Introduction to GIS, page 17-4:

     ...labels must be positioned to avoid overposting, but without destroying the eye's ability to associate labels with appropriate features.

   • 1990, J. A. Coffeen, Seismic on screen: an introduction to interactive interpretation, →ISBN:

     In the other method, a mapping program may have the ability to avoid overposting.

   • 1992, Denver GeoTech ...: Proceedings, page 171:

     Generally, shot point data have less overposting when the data is posted perpendicular to the orientation of the seismic line.

4. To place a poster so that it covers all or part of another poster.
   • 1994, Designed to Sell, →ISBN:

     Weathering and overposting of other posters destroyed most of the press run...

   • 1998, Beverly R. Silverberg, Transit Advertising Revenue: Traditional and New Sources and Structures, →ISBN:

     The practice of overposting for the purpose of assuring suffcient advertising exposures for fulfilling the terms of contracts with advertisers will be permitted provided, however, that the required number of spaces for public service advertising are maintained as available and that any overposting above fifteen percent (15%) of the contracted space sold shall require prior authorization in writing by the Contracting Office.

5. (computing) To breach security by overwriting data that is not intended for user input.
   • 2013, Badrinarayanan Lakshmiraghavan, Pro ASP.NET Web API Security: Securing ASP.NET Web API, →ISBN, page 349:

     The major problem here is the approach of using the domain object directly as the parameter for the action method that allows a user to overpost.

   • 2016, Lee Naylor, ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework and CSS, →ISBN, page 19:

     The Bind attribute is used to protect against overposting attacks by creating a list of safe properties to update; however, as we will discuss later, it does not work as expected and so it is safer to use a different method for editing or creating where some values may be blank. As an example of overposting, consider a scenario where the price is submitted as part of the request when a user submits an order for a product. An overposting attack would attempt to alter this price data by changing the submitted request data in an attempt to buy the product cheaper.

   • 2016, Barbara Ford, Dive into Visual Studio 2013, →ISBN, page 38:

     To protect from overposting attacks, please enable the specific properties you want to bind to.

Noun

overpost (plural overposts)

1. (accounting) An entry that has been posted more than once to a journal.
   • 1883, John Hunter, Supplementary book-keeping by double entry, page 28:

     On Feb. 1, 1879, I discover that, though the Ledger of 1878 had been closed and balanced, the amount brought forward as due by W. Tarn should have been £52 14s. id. (not £32 15s. id.); and this is found to have been caused by an overpost to his credit from a correct Journal entry.

2. (cartography) An overlap of two graphic elements.
   • 1980, Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, Petroleum exploration:

     Mapping programs such as SACM have automatic overpost deletion routines but useful data often are eliminated.

   • 1985, William R. Green, Computer-Aided Data Analysis: A Practical Guide, page 124:

     Even when the plot scale allows sufficient space for posting, overposts can occur because of the orientation of the lines.

   • 1995, Cartography and Geographic Information Systems:

     Figure 1 shows the use of the overpost environment to reposition text.

Anagrams

• overpots, overtops, proovest, stop over, stop-over, stopover