Oppress vs Overload - What's the difference?
oppress | overload | Related terms |
(obsolete) Physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush.
* , II.x:
To keep down by force
To make sad or gloomy
to load excessively
to provide too much power to a circuit
(computer science) to create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts
to fail due to excessive load
An excessive load.
The damage done, or the outage caused by such a load.
(computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.
* 2005 , John C Molluzzo, C++ for business programming?
Oppress is a related term of overload.
In lang=en terms the difference between oppress and overload
is that oppress is to make sad or gloomy while overload is to fail due to excessive load.As verbs the difference between oppress and overload
is that oppress is (obsolete) physically to press down on (someone) with harmful effects; to smother, crush while overload is to load excessively.As a noun overload is
an excessive load.oppress
English
Verb
(es)- Most mercilesse of women, VVyden hight, / Her other sonne fast sleeping did oppresse , / And with most cruell hand him murdred pittilesse.
- The rural poor were oppressed by the land-owners.
- We were oppressed by the constant grey skies.
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* * English transitive verbsoverload
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(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.