The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
OVERLOAD
overload, overburden
(noun) an excessive burden
overload
(noun) an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power
clog, overload
(verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired; “Fear clogged her mind”; “The story was clogged with too many details”
overload, surcharge, overcharge
(verb) place too much a load on; “don’t overload the car”
overload
(verb) become overloaded; “The aerator overloaded”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
overload (third-person singular simple present overloads, present participle overloading, simple past and past participle overloaded)
(transitive) to load excessively
(transitive) to provide too much power to a circuit
(transitive, object-oriented) to create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts
(intransitive) to fail due to excessive load
Noun
overload (plural overloads)
An excessive load.
The damage done, or the outage caused by such a load.
(computing, programming) An overloaded version of a function.
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*load", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overloaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Overloading.] Etym: [Cf. Overlade.]
Definition: To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
O"ver*load`, n.
Definition: An excessive load; the excess beyond a proper load.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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