Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To load too heavily.
- n. An excessive load.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To load with too heavy a burden or cargo; overburden; over-charge.
- n. An excessive load; a too heavy load.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive to load excessively
- v. transitive to provide too much power to a circuit
- v. transitive (computer science) to create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts
- v. intransitive to fail due to excessive load
- n. An excessive load.
- n. The damage done, or the outage caused by such a load.
- n. computing, programming An overloaded version of a function.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
- n. An excessive load; the excess beyond a proper load.
WordNet 3.0
- 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
Etymologies
- From over- + load. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When a defender steps up, it allows you to create two-on-one or three-on-two situations - what we call overload.”
“Would that be because the info overload is so huuugely tremendous?”
“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)
“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
“From this moment on, search overload is officially over, the advert says.”
“Indeed, information overload is a bigger challenge to consumers today.”
“This Halloween, skip the usual pumpkin overload in favor of something more literal.”
The Huffington Post: Saveur: 13 Bloody, Gutsy Halloween Recipes
“With warning label overload consumers disregard the important warnings because they're overwhelmed with unimportant warnings," says Frank.”
“Information overload is increasingly becoming a nuisance for consumers and businesses.”
“The problem of overload is pressing enough that there's a tendency to use capitalisation to distinguish Fantasy as a market-defined genre (upper case) from fantasy as a literary mode (lower case), but for many that's enough.”
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