What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Oversupply vs Overload - What's the difference?

oversupply | overload | Related terms |

Oversupply is a related term of overload.


As verbs the difference between oversupply and overload

is that oversupply is to supply more than is needed while overload is to load excessively.

As nouns the difference between oversupply and overload

is that oversupply is an excessive supply while overload is an excessive load.

oversupply

English

Verb

  • To supply more than is needed
  • Noun

    (oversupplies)
  • An excessive supply.
  • *2012 , (Jurek Martin), ‘A Singular President’, Literary Review , 401:
  • *:He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital.
  • 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