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Overload

//ˌəʊvəˈləʊd// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An excessive load.
  2. 2
    an excessive burden wordnet
  3. 3
    The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.
  4. 4
    an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power wordnet
  5. 5
    An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.

    "We did haul overloads sometimes[.]"

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  1. 6
    An overloaded version of a function.

    "Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class."

Verb
  1. 1
    To load excessively. transitive
  2. 2
    fill to excess so that function is impaired wordnet
  3. 3
    To provide too much power to a circuit. transitive
  4. 4
    place too much a load on wordnet
  5. 5
    To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts. transitive
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  1. 6
    become overloaded wordnet
  2. 7
    To fail due to excessive load. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From over- + load.

Etymology 2

From over- + load.

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