Overloaded vs Busy - What's the difference?
overloaded | busy |
(overload)
loaded too heavily
of a word, having multiple meanings depending on context
(computing) of a name, used for more than one variable or procedure etc; differentiated by the compiler based on context
Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
* Shakespeare
Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
Officious; meddling.
* 1603 , , IV. ii. 130:
To make somebody busy , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
* On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
To rush somebody.
A police officer.
As verbs the difference between overloaded and busy
is that overloaded is (overload) while busy is to make somebody busy , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.As adjectives the difference between overloaded and busy
is that overloaded is loaded too heavily while busy is crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.As a noun busy is
a police officer.overloaded
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)busy
English
Adjective
(er)- a busy street
- To-morrow is a busy day.
- The director cannot see you now, he's busy .
- Her telephone has been busy all day.
- She is too busy to have time for riddles.
- Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
- I will be hanged if some eternal villain, / Some busy and insinuating rogue, / Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, / Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.