overloaded
過負荷な
解説 Definition
overloaded は、overload（過度に負荷をかける）の過去形・過去分詞に由来し、「過負荷な」という意味で形容詞的に使われます。機械、システム、人の予定などが処理しきれないほど重い負担を受けている状態を表します。
Overloaded describes a person, machine, system, or container carrying or receiving more work, weight, electrical demand, or information than it can safely or effectively handle. It is also the past tense and past participle of overload.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
over-「過度に」＋ load「負荷をかける」＋ -ed で、overload の過去形・過去分詞です。形容詞では overloaded server、overloaded power strip、be overloaded with requests のように、「許容量を超えて処理しきれない状態」として機械にも人にも使えます。
Build overloaded from over-, meaning “too much,” load, meaning a burden or amount carried, and -ed. As the past tense or past participle of overload, it describes something that has been given excessive weight or demand. As an adjective, picture an overloaded server slowing down, an overloaded power strip becoming unsafe, or a team overloaded with urgent requests. Learn the pattern be overloaded with something. The central image is a normal capacity being exceeded, whether the burden is physical, electrical, computational, or human.
例文
The overloaded server became very slow.
過負荷になったサーバーはとても遅くなりました。
Do not use an overloaded power strip.
過負荷の電源タップは使わないでください。
The team was overloaded with urgent requests all week.
そのチームは一週間ずっと緊急の依頼で過負荷になっていました。
overloaded の類義語・関連語
対義語
紛らわしい語
overloaded の語源・成り立ち Etymology
接頭辞over-（過剰に）＋load（荷を積む）＋ed（過去分詞形容詞化）。loadは古英語lād（道・運搬）に由来し、「運ぶもの→積荷」へと意味が変化した。「許容量を超えて荷を積んだ」が原義で、転じて電気回路やシステムの過負荷にも使う。関連語：overwork（過労）、download（荷を降ろす→取得する）。
Overloaded consists of the prefix over-, meaning “excessively” or “beyond a limit,” load, and the past-participial ending -ed. Load is related to Old English lād, which referred to a way, journey, or carrying, and later developed the sense of something transported or carried. Overload therefore literally means putting on too great a load, a physical image later extended to circuits, computer systems, schedules, and people.
同じレベルの英単語をもっと
外部辞書で調べる
この単語を英単語クイズで覚えよう