What Does “Overloaded”/“Overload”/“Overloading” Mean?

Question

What does \"Overloaded\"/\"Overload\" mean in regards to programming?

Answer 1

Overloading is the poor man's version of multimethods from CLOS and other languages. It's the confusing one.

Overriding is the usual OO one. It goes with inheritance, we call it redefinition too (e.g. in https://stackoverflow.com/users/3827/eed3si9n's answer Line provides a specialized definition of Draw().