overload

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Imposer à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose plus de poids, de travail ou d’informations qu’il ne peut en supporter.

En anglais simple : To put more weight, work, or information on something or someone than they can handle.

• Do not overload the lift.
• They overloaded the truck with heavy boxes.
• The new tasks have overloaded our staff.

Comment l'utiliser : overload someone/something with something (Do not overload the students with homework.)

Synonymes : overburden

Expressions courantes : overload a truck, overload someone with something, overload the system, overload a vehicle

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Faire passer trop de courant dans un circuit ou un appareil électrique.

En anglais simple : To make too much electricity flow through a circuit or electrical device.

• Too many appliances can overload a circuit.
• The heater overloaded the wiring and blew a fuse.
• Do not overload that socket with extra plugs.

Expressions courantes : overload a circuit, overload a socket, overload the wiring

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Quantité de poids, de travail, d’informations ou d’électricité supérieure à ce qu’une personne ou une chose peut supporter.

En anglais simple : More weight, work, information, or electricity than someone or something can handle.

• I am struggling with information overload.
• An electrical overload shut down the equipment.
• The crowded station caused sensory overload for the child.

Synonymes : excess

Expressions courantes : information overload, sensory overload, electrical overload

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Version d’une fonction informatique qui accepte des données d’entrée de types ou de nombres différents.

En anglais simple : A version of a computer function that accepts different types or numbers of inputs.

• This overload accepts a number.
• The compiler selected the overload with two arguments.
• We added an overload that accepts a string.

Expressions courantes : function overload, method overload, overload for something