Dictionary Definition
overload
Noun
1 an electrical load that exceeds the available
electrical power
2 an excessive burden [syn: overburden]
Verb
1 become overloaded; "The aerator
overloaded"
2 fill to excess so that function is impaired;
"Fear clogged her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many
details" [syn: clog]
3 place too much a load on; "don't overload the
car" [syn: surcharge,
overcharge]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
Translations
to load excessively
- Czech: přetížit
to create different functions for the same name
- Czech: přetížit
Quotations
- Glenn Campbell - Wichita Lineman
- I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road / Searchin' in the sun for another overload
Derived terms
Translations
excessive load
- Czech: přetížení
- Greek: υπερφόρτωση
Extensive Definition
Overload may refer to:
- Audio Overload, an audio player that plays music from various video game music audio files
- Overload (Transformers), fictional character
- Overload (Chinese rock band) (超载乐队), a Chinese rock band
- Overload (2003 song), a dance song by Voodoo and Serano
- Overload (song), a pop song by the UK girl group Sugababes
- "Overload", a song by Raven from their 1987 album Life's a Bitch
- "The Overload", a song by Talking Heads from their 1980 album Remain in Light
- Overload (novel), a novel by Arthur Hailey
- Overloading (chess)
- Iron overload disorder
- Sensory overload
Technology terms
- Computer science terms
- Function overloading, a software engineering process whereby multiple functions of different types are defined with the same name
- Operator overloading, a software engineering process whereby operators such as + or - are treated as polymorphic functions having different behaviours depending on the types of arguments used
- Method overloading a type of polymorphism where different functions with the same name are invoked based on the data types of the parameters passed
- Type polymorphism or overloading, in computer science, allowing a single definition to be used with different classes of objects
- Electrical overload, a situation where an electrical machine or system is subjected to a greater load than it was designed for
- Information overload, the psychology term for the state of having too much information to make a decision or remain informed about a topic
- Mechanical overload, when a component is stressed to failure in one event
- Overloaded expression is an ambiguous operator expression can only be understood based on the context
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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, 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