overload

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ load.

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈləʊd/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌləʊd/

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Verb

overload (third-person singular simple present overloads, present participle overloading, simple past and past participle overloaded)

1. (transitive) To load excessively.
2. (transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
3. (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
4. (intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.

Translations

to load excessively

• Bulgarian: претоварвам (bg) (pretovarvam)
• Catalan: recarregar (ca), enfarfegar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超載／超载 (zh) (chāozài)

• Czech: přetížit
• Danish: overbelaste
• Dutch: overladen (nl)
• Finnish: ylikuormittaa, ylikuormata
• French: surcharger (fr)
• German: überladen (de), überlasten (de)
• Hungarian: túlterhel (hu)
• Ido: supercharjar (io)
• Irish: anluchtaigh
• Italian: sovraccaricare
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: iwwerlueden
• Portuguese: sobrecarregar (pt)
• Romanian: supraîncărca, supraînsărcina
• Russian: перегружа́ть (ru) impf (peregružátʹ), перегрузи́ть (ru) pf (peregruzítʹ)
• Spanish: sobrecargar (es)
• Swedish: överbelasta (sv)
• Turkish: fazla doldurmak
• Ukrainian: переванта́жувати impf (perevantážuvaty), переванта́жити pf (perevantážyty)
• Vietnamese: quá tải (vi)

to provide too much power to a circuit

• Bulgarian: претоварвам (bg) (pretovarvam)
• Finnish: ylikuormittaa
• German: überlasten (de), überladen (de)
• Italian: sovraccaricare
• Romanian: supraîncărca (ro), supraînsărcina
• Turkish: fazla yüklemek

to create different functions for the same name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重载 (zh) (chóngzài)

• Czech: přetížit
• Finnish: kuormittaa (fi)
• French: surcharger (fr)
• German: überladen (de)
• Polish: przeładować (pl)
• Swedish: överlagra
• Turkish: aşırı yüklemek
• Vietnamese: tải bội, chồng hàm, nạp chồng hàm

to fail due to excessive load

• Finnish: ylikuormittua
• German: überlastet sein

Noun

overload (plural overloads)

1. An excessive load.
2. The damage done, or the outage caused, by such a load.
3. (automotive) An load of goods above the prescribed carrying weight of the vehicle.
   • 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 60:

     We did haul overloads sometimes[.]

4. (computing, programming) 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.

Quotations

• 1968, Glenn Campbell - Wichita Lineman

  I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road
  Searchin' in the sun for another overload

Derived terms

• information overload
• progressive overload
• sensory overload

 

Related terms

• overloading (noun)

Translations

excessive load

• Bulgarian: претоварване n (pretovarvane)
• Czech: přetížení n
• Danish: overbelastning
• Finnish: ylikuorma, ylikuormitus (fi)
• French: surcharge (fr) f
• Georgian: გადატვირთვა (gadaṭvirtva)
• German: Überladung f, Überlastung (de) f
• Greek: υπερφόρτωση (el) f (yperfórtosi)
• Greenlandic: artukkiineq
• Hungarian: túlterhelés (hu), túlterheltség (hu)
• Japanese: 過負荷 (kafuka), 過積載 (kasekisai)
• Romanian: suprasarcină f, supraîncărcare f, sarcină excesivă f
• Russian: перегру́зка (ru) f (peregrúzka)
• Spanish: sobrecarga (es) f
• Swedish: överlast c, överbelastning (sv) c, överdos (sv) c, överflöd (sv) n
• Tagalog: tambanggalan
• Turkish: fazla doldurma, fazla yükleme
• Ukrainian: переванта́ження n (perevantážennja)

overloaded version of a function

• German: Überladung f
• Swedish: överlagring c
• Turkish: aşırı yükleme