Overload (novel)
WordNet
noun
(1) An excessive burden
(2) An electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power
verb
(3) Fill to excess so that function is impaired
"Fear clogged her mind"
"The story was clogged with too many details"
(4) Place too much a load on
"Don't overload the car"
(5) Become overloaded
"The aerator overloaded"
WiktionaryText
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 overloaded version of a function.
- 2005, John C Molluzzo, C++ for business programming
- Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.
- 2005, John C Molluzzo, C++ for business programming
Quotations
- Glenn Campbell - Wichita Lineman
- I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road / Searchin' in the sun for another overload