Override vs Overload - What's the difference?
override | overload |
To ride across or beyond something.
To ride a horse too hard.
To counteract the normal operation of something.
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(programming, object-oriented) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
A royalty.
A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
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?
As verbs the difference between override and overload
is that override is to ride across or beyond something while overload is to load excessively.As nouns the difference between override and overload
is that override is a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control while overload is an excessive load.override
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Verb
- The Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law .
- The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said.
- How the cat runs is defined in the method
run()of the classCat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass calledMammal.
Usage notes
* The form overrode is sometimes used as a past participle, in place of the standard overridden.See also
* (programming) overloadNoun
(en noun)overload
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Verb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- Code an overload of the insertion operator for the Rectangle class.
