Overload

Quick meaning: Overload is a verb meaning (transitive) To load excessively.

Meaning

(transitive) To load excessively.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
2. (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
3. (intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.
4. An excessive load.
5. The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.
6. (automotive) An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.
7. (computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.

Example Sentences

We did haul overloads sometimes[.]

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

If this last verbal overload has proven anything, it is that Rocko's Modern Life played better than it reads.

Word Forms

• overloads
• overloading
• overloaded

Synonyms for overload

Depending on context, synonyms include clog, surcharge, overcharge, overburden.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overburden, overcharge, surcharge, clog, overstretch, overwork.

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