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Overcharge vs Overload - What's the difference?

overcharge | overload |

As verbs the difference between overcharge and overload

is that overcharge is to charge more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill while overload is to load excessively.

As nouns the difference between overcharge and overload

is that overcharge is an excessive load or burden while overload is an excessive load.

overcharge

English

Verb

  • to charge more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill
  • to continue to charge an electric device beyond its electrical capacity
  • To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress.
  • (Sir Walter Raleigh)
  • To fill too full; to crowd.
  • * Addison
  • Our language is overcharged with consonants.
  • To exaggerate.
  • to overcharge a description

    Antonyms

    *undercharge

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An excessive load or burden.
  • An excessive charge in an account.
  • overload

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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?
  • Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.

    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

    Derived terms

    * information overload