overskue

Danish

Etymology

over (“over, above”) +‎ skue (“view, look”)

Verb

overskue

1. to look upon from above
   • 1981, Henning Mortensen, Under havet mødes alle øer: kriminalroman:

     Og på færgen fandt hun et sted for sig selv, hvorfra hun kunne overskue mere vand, end hun længe havde set, ...

     And on the ferry, she found a place to herself from which she could oversee more water than she had seen in a long time, ...

   • 2016, Martin Jensen, Kongens thegn, Klim, →ISBN:

     Stik syd, ikke meget længere fra gården end jeg kan skyde en pil, rejser en høj sig over åsen, og herfra kan en vagt overskue dalen såvel som sporene, der leder hen over åsene.

     Due north, not much farther from the farm than I can shoot an arrow, a hill raises itself above the ridge, and from here, a guard can oversee the valley as well as the tracks leading across the ridges.

2. (by extension) to have an overview of; to know and understand the central features of something complex
   • 2010, It-implementering i små og mellemstore virksomheder, Libris Media A/S, →ISBN, page 79:

     Uden forberedelsen kan det være svært at overskue projektet og vurdere, om det forløber, som det bør.

     Without preparation, it may be difficult to have an overview of the project and assess whether it is progressing as it should.

   • 2006, Ledelse, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN, page 25:

     Verden er i dag så kompleks, at ingen er i stand til at overskue den på én gang. I stedet for at overskue verden er vi nødsaget til at iagttage den fra forskellige observationspunkter og med forskellige perspektiver og linser.

     Today, the world is so complex that no one is able to have an overview of it at once. Instead of having an overview of the world, we must make do with observing it from different vantage points and with different perspectives and lenses.

   • 2008, Selvstyrende team - ledelse og organisation, Samfundslitteratur, →ISBN, page 197:

     Evnen til at overskue store informationsmængder og uddrage det centrale heraf udgør stadig en magtbase, ...

     The ability to have an overview of large amounts of information and extract the central points from it still constitutes a power base, ...

3. (by further extension) to manage; to have the willpower, energy etc. to overcome something
   • 1962, Anton Kjædegaard, Mørke over havet:

     Jeg kunne ikke lade det fortsætte, for det ville betyde en omvæltning af hele min tilværelse, som jeg ikke kunne overskue.

     I could not let it go on, for it would mean an upheaval of my entire existence that would be too much for me.

   • 2018, Thomas Milsted, Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil, Ned og op med stress, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

     Lige så snart jeg vidste, at folk accepterede, at jeg kunne finde på at aflyse, så kunne jeg godt overskue at gennemføre. Det var så vigtigt for mig hele tiden at have en nødudgang.

     As soon as I knew that people accepted that I might cancel, doing [the thing] was manageable. It was so important to me to always have an emergency exit.

   • 2006, Anne Mette Holme Bertelsen, Camilla Gohr, Den gode fødsel: en antropologisk undersøgelse af fødselsfortællingen, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 89:

     ... indtil jeg så fik at vide, nu har du åbnet dig 8 cm, det tager ingen tid nu, så var der ligesom en gulerod, og så kunne man så godt overskue den smerte ...

     ... until I was told, now you've dilated by 8 cm, now it will be no time at all, then there was a carrot, like, and then one could overcome that pain

Synonyms

• (manage, handle): håndtere, magte