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.
- noun An excessive load; a too heavy load.
- To load with too heavy a burden or cargo; overburden; over-charge.
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
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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
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