Used in a Sentence

overburden

How to use overburden in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for overburden.

Editorial note

Think of a few feet of overburden, then a hundred feet of coal.

Examples9
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of overburden gathered in one view.

noun

the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits

noun

an excessive burden

verb

burden with too much work or responsibility

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for overburden.

noun

the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits

noun

an excessive burden

verb

burden with too much work or responsibility

verb

load with excessive weight

Example sentences

1

Think of a few feet of overburden, then a hundred feet of coal.

2

I cannot emphasize enough that you should not overburden your spouse.

3

In order to ensure that we don’t overburden the certificate authority resources, we are staging this process.

4

> "large teams are likely to operate in environments where large teams are required due to bureaucratic overburden"Exactly.

5

I think that this kind of information presentation leads to information overburden, the kind of which prevents people from opening an app more often than once a week.

6

Implanted medical devices do seem like the ideal situation for wireless access, albeit you probably don't want to overburden the thing with features either.

7

To start with the logistics, any private jets would just overburden the local flight control system that will now be under stress, and there are not going to be much free parking places for jets in Kathmandu airport.

8

Indeed…I just hope that problem is the same as when someone asked them, 15 years ago, how their crawler could handle websites with “tens of thousands of pages” fearing libraries would put their ressources on-line, overburden and halt their effort.

9

Consequently, if you store too many documents with the same hash attribute, wouldn't you overburden that subset of servers, and thus see performance degradation?Azure has similar functionality for their table service, requiring a partition key, and they explicitly say that there is a throughput limit for records with the same partition key.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use overburden in a sentence?

Think of a few feet of overburden, then a hundred feet of coal.

What does overburden mean?

the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits

What part of speech is overburden?

overburden is commonly used as noun, verb.