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overload - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To load too heavily.
- noun An excessive load.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To load with too heavy a burden or cargo; overburden; over-charge.
- noun An excessive load; a too heavy load.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An excessive load; the excess beyond a proper load.
- transitive verb To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
load excessively - verb transitive to provide too much
power to a circuit - verb transitive (
computer science ) to create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts - verb intransitive to
fail due to excessive load - noun An excessive load.
- noun The
damage done, or theoutage caused by such a load. - noun computing, programming An overloaded version of a function.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an excessive burden
- verb place too much a load on
- verb become overloaded
- noun an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power
- verb fill to excess so that function is impaired
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From over- + load.
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Examples
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"When a defender steps up, it allows you to create two-on-one or three-on-two situations - what we call overload."
BBC News - Home 2011
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From this moment on, search overload is officially over, the advert says.
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This Halloween, skip the usual pumpkin overload in favor of something more literal.
Saveur: 13 Bloody, Gutsy Halloween Recipes Saveur 2010
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This Halloween, skip the usual pumpkin overload in favor of something more literal.
Saveur: 13 Bloody, Gutsy Halloween Recipes Saveur 2010
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This Halloween, skip the usual pumpkin overload in favor of something more literal.
Saveur: 13 Bloody, Gutsy Halloween Recipes Saveur 2010
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The relationship of explicitness to forewarning about cognitive overload is something that I had never thought of.
William E. J. Doane PhD › Making Values and Culture Manifest and Manifold 2010
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Would that be because the info overload is so huuugely tremendous?
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Indeed, information overload is a bigger challenge to consumers today.
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And also finds that sharing and a sharing overload is a problem.
Wellness Informatics at CHI 2010 « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2010
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This Halloween, skip the usual pumpkin overload in favor of something more literal.
Saveur: 13 Bloody, Gutsy Halloween Recipes Saveur 2010
Related Words
synonyms (107)
Words with the same meaning
- adorn
- bale
- bear hard upon
- burden
- burdening
- burthen
- cargo
- charge
- charging
- choke
- congest
- congestion
- convolute
- cram
- crowd
- cumber
- cumbrance
- deadweight
- decorate
- drag
- drench
- elaborate
- embellish
- embroider
- encumber
- encumbrance
- engorgement
- enrich
- festoon
- flourish
- freight
- gild
- glut
- gluttonize
- go hard with
- go ill with
- gorge
- hamper
- handicap
- hindrance
- hyperemia
- impede
- impediment
- incubus
- incumbency
- involve
- jam
- jam-pack
- lade
- lading
- lie on
- load
- load with ornament
- loading
- millstone
- oppress
- oppression
- ornament
- overballast
- overbrimming
- overburden
- overcharge
- overfeed
- overfill
- overflow
- overfreight
- overfullness
- overlade
- overlay
- overspill
- overstuff
- overtax
- overtaxing
- overweigh
- overweight
- overweighting
- pack
- plethora
- press hard upon
- pressure
- repletion
- rest hard upon
- saddle
- saddle with
- saddling
- satiate
- satiety
- saturate
- saturation
- soak
- strain
- stuff
- supercharge
- superincumbency
- supersaturate
- supersaturation
- surcharge
- surfeit
- tax
- taxing
- trick out
- try one
- varnish
- weigh down
- weigh heavy on
- weigh on
- weigh upon
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