What's the difference between overload and power?

Overload


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
  • (n.) An excessive load; the excess beyond a proper load.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
  • (2) In iron-overloaded patients with primary haemochromatosis, there was inappropriately high uptake of iron by the biopsy specimens.
  • (3) The patient presented urgently for Caesarean section, with fluid overload and worsening thrombocytopaenia.
  • (4) Al hepatocytes overload appeared only in nuclei and not in nuclei and not in lysosomes, contrarily to chronic intoxications.
  • (5) Fluid overload, which could have been caused by the hyperosmolar properties of dextran, worsened progressively as fluids were drawn from the interstitial space and urine output was reduced.
  • (6) There were no significant differences between the mean levels of peak blood pressures (systolic, diastolic and mean), degree of fluid overload, and fractional sodium excretion in the 2 groups.
  • (7) Persisting diastolic dysfunction with a substantial rise in left ventricular filling pressure can be observed during dynamic exercise in postoperative patients with preoperative severe pressure overload hypertrophy.
  • (8) The 8 men and 3 women were clinically stable, were known to be compliant, and had no clinical evidence of aluminum overload; they were not receiving vitamin D supplements; and they had been on dialysis for an average of 65.6 months (range: 13-188 months).
  • (9) Wilson disease is due to a genetically determined impairment of copper excretion from liver into bile resulting in copper overload of the organism.
  • (10) There was no change in the sarcolemmal Mg2+ -ATPase of the left or right ventricle for the whole duration (3 to 9 months) of left ventricular pressure overload.
  • (11) These experimental results demonstrate that aluminium interferes with iron absorption and iron transfer, and suggest that these mechanisms may be responsible for maintaining and even increasing the anaemia observed in aluminium overload.
  • (12) When a high dose of the complex was administered, an overloading with hemosiderin of macrophages and hepatocytes was noticed.
  • (13) The subsequent accumulation of Na+ in the cell Na(+)-Ca2+ exchange, which can ultimately result in intracellular Ca2+ overload, contractile dysfunction and damage.
  • (14) If overloaded, these areas are subject to "cervical cratering," a common prelude to implant failure.
  • (15) The rationale for the inclusion of Mg in cardioplegic solutions therefore lies not in its cardioplegic properties, but in its ability to influence other cellular events such as the loss of Mg and K and perhaps to counter the detrimental effects of ischemia by antagonizing calcium (Ca) overload.
  • (16) Cardiac hypertrophy due to a chronic hemodynamic overload is accompanied by isoformic changes of two proteins of the thick filament of the sarcomere, myosin, and creatine phosphokinase.
  • (17) Age, gender and laboratory markers of iron overload did not differentiate patients with cardiac dysfunction (group 1) from those without cardiac dysfunction (group 2).
  • (18) Severe overloading can increase microdamage alarmingly, its repair by BMUs too, and can cause woven bone formation, anarchic resorption and a regional acceleratory phenomenon.
  • (19) Thus, it appears that the increased expression of the regulatory MLC2 gene in SHR atrial cells is a predetermined event, which, most likely, participates in functional adaptation of the myocardium in response to pressure overload and subsequent hypertrophy.
  • (20) To help resolve the issue of contractile function in volume overload hypertrophy, we examined ventricular function in a recently described model of severe chronic experimental mitral regurgitation.

Power


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Poor, the fish.
  • (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.
  • (n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.
  • (n.) Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
  • (n.) The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
  • (n.) The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.
  • (n.) A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
  • (n.) A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.
  • (n.) The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.
  • (n.) A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.
  • (n.) Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.
  • (n.) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.
  • (n.) The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.
  • (n.) Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.
  • (n.) The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface.
  • (n.) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.
  • (n.) Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
  • (3) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (4) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
  • (5) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
  • (6) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
  • (7) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (8) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
  • (9) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (10) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
  • (11) He spoke words of power and depth and passion – and he spoke with a gesture, too.
  • (12) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
  • (13) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
  • (14) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
  • (15) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
  • (16) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (17) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (18) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
  • (19) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
  • (20) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).