Open and not concealed or secret.

The state of being overt; openness.

(sociolinguistics) Prestige acquired in a community by using a standard or formal language variety associated with power and status.

(law, England & Wales, historical) A (now abolished) rule in English law that overrode the general rule that the purported sale of stolen goods would not transfer ownership, if the goods were openly sold at a designated market between sunrise and sunset.

(archaic) drunk; intoxicated

past participle of overtake

An act of overtaking; an overtaking maneuver.

To pass a slower moving object or entity (on the side closest to oncoming traffic). / (economics) To become greater than something else

present participle of overtake

The act by which one thing overtakes another.