0 done or shown publicly or in an obvious way and not secret: --
He shows no overt signs of his unhappiness.
overt racism
overt criticism
1 done or shown obviously or publicly; not hidden or secret: --
We did not give any treatment to our fetus, since overt circulatory failure did not develop during the carefully monitored fetal course.
Within the overt subject utterances, 68 were demonstratives and 55 were lexical.
The latter type displays a fairly complex distribution, owing to the fact that it can sometimes appear in contexts without overt negation.
As expected in affirmative imperatives, clitics obligatorily follow verbs regardless of their overt morphology.
The preference for stripped forms is evident from the paucity of overt inflectional affixes occurring in these early forms.
Demonstration of any expressive vocabulary would indicate that overt production is not an absolute necessity for some expressive vocabulary growth to occur.
Such partiality can be exercised through overt pressures or through subtle constraints on open expression.
As an analogical change, this would have been supported by the parallel use of modals and be in ellipsis contexts and with overt infinitives.
