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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overload.
  • adjective loaded too heavily
  • adjective of a word, having multiple meanings depending on context
  • adjective computing of a name, used for more than one variable or procedure etc; differentiated by the compiler based on context

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  • adjective loaded past capacity

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Examples

  • The only reason most of them are overloaded is because education is, in fact, secondary to the other aspects of their life.

    Why Can’t They Remember? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

  • Before NAFTA, cocaine was carried in overloaded Cessnas across the Caribbean, a risky and expensive trip.

    Snow Fall 2007

  • Before NAFTA, cocaine was carried in overloaded Cessnas across the Caribbean, a risky and expensive trip.

    Snow Fall 2007

  • Within days my server overloaded from the traffic it was receiving.

    stonetable.org » What’s Wrong with this Picture? 2002

  • I can load the control without error if I call the overloaded LoadControl function and if I pass in Nothing as the Object () parameter (so I know it can find it by type and call the default constructor).

    ASP.NET Forums phead1223 2010

  • Rob Streck, who runs the dispatch center, said the calls overloaded the transfer boxes which accept incoming 911 calls and then route to dispatchers.

    springfieldnewssun.com - News 2009

  • Also, to be fair, a lot of these teachers and principles are just overloaded, which is why, going back to what Anne Jolly said, one of the reasons that Secretary Riley's worked so hard in this Goals

    Session Three Of Southern Economic Conference ITY National Archives 1995

  • "However we also realise the fragility of the cellphone network and, in particular, the possibility that it may become overloaded, which is why the emergency text alert system will be just one tool of many that WEMO will use to raise the alarm."

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • The Problem: I am getting an error when calling the overloaded LoadControl method in my attempt to call the overloaded constructor on the user control.

    ASP.NET Forums phead1223 2010

  • The sub-demo quality's most annoying attribute is the blocky digital clipping that happens whenever the voice recorder is overloaded, which is often.

    Pitchfork: Latest News 2009

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