overnight vs over night
overnight
Definitions
adverb
- happening in a short time or with great speed
- during or for the length of one night
adjective
- lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
Examples
She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow.
This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
The potatoes will absorb any excess liquid overnight.
