overload

UK /ˌəʊvəˈləʊd/ US /ˌoʊvɚˈloʊd/

verb 4noun 4

Collocations

PREP

with

The emergency room became overloaded with patients after the accident.

PHRASES

be heavily/seriously overloaded

verb

To load excessively.

To provide too much power to a circuit.

To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.

To fail due to excessive load.

noun

An excessive load.

The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.

An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.

We did haul overloads sometimes[.]

An overloaded version of a function.

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

noun — an excessive burden

verb — fill to excess so that function is impaired

verb — place too much a load on

We did haul overloads sometimes[.]

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

Never overload the mule.

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