Overload

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To load too heavily.
  • n. An excessive load.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to load excessively
  • v. to provide too much power to a circuit
  • v. (computer science) to create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts
  • v. to fail due to excessive load
  • n. An excessive load.
  • n. The damage done, or the outage caused by such a load.
  • n. An overloaded version of a function.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
  • n. An excessive load; the excess beyond a proper load.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To load with too heavy a burden or cargo; overburden; over-charge.
  • n. An excessive load; a too heavy load.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an excessive burden
  • v. place too much a load on
  • v. become overloaded
  • n. an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power
  • v. fill to excess so that function is impaired
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    burden    loading    load    laden    load up   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    malfunction    imbalance    shutdown    leakage    override