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Definition of Overall
1. Adjective. Involving only main features. "The overall pattern of his life"
2. Noun. (usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps).
3. Adjective. Including everything. "The overall cost"
4. Noun. A loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work.
Generic synonyms: Coverall
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of Overall
1. adv. Everywhere.
Definition of Overall
1. Adjective. All-encompassing. ¹
2. Adverb. Generally; with everything considered. ¹
3. Noun. (British) A garment worn over other clothing to protect it; a coverall or boiler suit. A garment, for manual labor or for casual wear, often made of a single piece of fabric, with long legs and a bib upper, supported from the shoulders with straps, and having several large pockets and loops for carrying tools. ¹
4. Noun. (context: in the plural US) A garment, worn for manual labor, with an integral covering extending to the chest, supported by straps. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overall
1. a loose outer garment [n -S]
Medical Definition of Overall
1. A single citation covering several articles of various degrees of specificity or a single citation covering papers presented at a meeting. A subject overall refers to a series of articles on a single subject; a congress overall refers to papers presented at a formal local, regional, national, or international gathering; a society overall refers to papers presented at an annual, semi-annual, monthly, weekly, or other meeting of a society, academy, institute, hospital, etc. The publication type may be used for a single citation with or without the additional indexing or cataloging of individual papers. The individual papers, however, are not labelled overall. (12 Dec 1998)