different between overtire vs overtime

English

Etymology

over- +? tire

Verb

overtire (third-person singular simple present overtires, present participle overtiring, simple past and past participle overtired)

1. (transitive) To tire excessively.
2. (intransitive) To become excessively tired.

English

Etymology

over- +? time.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o?v??ta?m/

Noun

overtime (countable and uncountable, plural overtimes)

1. (uncountable) Working time outside of one's regular hours.

   Workers are usually paid extra for working overtime.

2. (uncountable) The rate of pay, usually higher, for work done outside of or in addition to regular hours.
3. (sports, countable, US) An extra period of play when a contest has a tie score at the end of regulation.

   That last-second shot ties the game 99-99 and sends it to overtime!

   Synonym: (UK) extra time

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

overtime (not comparable)

1. Exceeding regular working hours.
2. Beyond the normal or usual extent.

Translations

Verb

overtime (third-person singular simple present overtimes, present participle overtiming, simple past and past participle overtimed)

1. (transitive) To measure something incorrectly, as taking more time than it actually did.
   • 1948, Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California

     With automatic timing, overtiming is virtually impossible. However, there are inherent inaccuracies in manual timing of telephone messages which, on the average, tend toward overtiming messages […]

Prepositional phrase

overtime

1. Misspelling of over time.

See also

• long-hours culture