What's the difference between overtax and overwax?

Overtax


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To tax or to task too heavily.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This overtaxes the attention, mechanical memory, and patience of the brain injured pupil.
  • (2) The girl had not attended school regularly for almost 2 years, had stayed at home and was overtaxed psychosocially.
  • (3) They have also let overindulgent hunters and fishermen use the land, who overtax the resources the natives depend on, Kechimov said.
  • (4) The voice prosthesis renders possible a reliably reproducible voice, which is superior (period of uninterrupted sound production, basal frequency, voice intensity) to the other techniques (esophageal speech, external vibrators, other surgical reconstructive measures), but has the following disadvantages: high initial phonation pressure, formation of granulation tissue around the voice shunt, blockage or leakage of the prosthesis or the voice shunt, displacement of the prosthesis, spontaneous occlusion when the prosthesis is accidentally removed, overtaxing the patients who have difficulties in replacing and cleaning the prosthesis.
  • (5) By assuming the workload associated with breathing, mechanical support averts ventilatory failure, prevents respiratory arrest, assures CO2 removal and pH homeostasis, while permitting the overtaxed respiratory muscles to replenish energy reserves as the primary process is addressed.
  • (6) The water from an overtaxed sewer system floods my basement and again I pump it out.
  • (7) Indirect antidepressive treatment consisting in: counselling of the parents or treatment for them (psychotherapy, psychotropic medication), family therapy, or admission of the child to a home; learning and teaching hygiene: preventing the child from becoming overtaxed as a result of his difficulty in learning and his impaired performance, recourse to conditioning procedures, demotion to a lower class at school, or transference to another school; initial and follow-up psychotherapy or cognitive therapeutic procedures in cases of 'endogenous' depression.
  • (8) The demand for amniocentesis and laboratory analysis of the fluid will soon overtax existing facilities.
  • (9) Compared with a control group of "only aggressive" patients, organic brain damage owing to complications of pregnancy or delivery, overtaxing upbringing by the parents and absence of a positive father figure could be demonstrated in the zoosadists.
  • (10) Rock has suggested that inverted faces are difficult to recognise because they overtax a mechanism for correcting disoriented stimuli.
  • (11) Growth of the rat facial skeleton over a 40 day period from birth was examined relative to 8 length and 4 width parameters of animals subject to somatic growth retardation experimentally induced by overtaxing the maternal lactational capacity by means of excessively large cross-fostered litters.
  • (12) All patients are overtaxed by their situation; the conversion reaction is used as a means to express anxiety and maintain self-assertion at the same time.
  • (13) Although the performance of disturbed behaviour has adaptive value, it simultaneously demonstrates an overtaxed and unhealthy state.
  • (14) To test the hypothesis that this is in part due to dysfunction of overtaxed inspiratory muscles, we studied 3 patients with BIDP before and after 2, 5, and 18 wk of daily intermittent external surface negative pressure ventilation (ENPV).
  • (15) Both reactions lead to an inadequate handling of the child and in consequence to overtax or overprotection.
  • (16) Such overload might concurrently or sequentially also overtax a suggested limited right hemisphere language capacity, in terms of the hypothesis, accounting for the right-sided pain sometimes presenting in these cases.
  • (17) Indeed, in patients with hypercapnia, increased exercise might overtax respiratory muscles, which are weak relative to those of eucapnic patients.
  • (18) When humans are primarily impaired or overtaxed in their more elaborate abilities of coping with the social environment they seem to fall back on more primitive coping behaviours known from other mammals in severe conflict situations.
  • (19) Daimler’s goals are more straightforward: to make the business of long-haul trucking less reliant on overtaxed drivers.
  • (20) The problems of most patients were not emergencies; most had experienced symptoms of their presenting complaint for more than six months, finally overtaxing the coping capacities of their caregivers.

Overwax


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To wax or grow too rapindly or too much.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is an indication that castings made from slightly overwaxed patterns can be finished to produce better margins than those made from patterns waxed exactly to the margins.

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