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load
[ lohd ]
noun
The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- the quantity that can be or usually is carried at one time, as in a cart:
The maximum load for a wagon that size is only about 70 pounds.
- this quantity taken as a unit of measure or weight or a discrete quantity (usually used in combination):
carload;
wagonload.
- the quantity borne or sustained by something; burden:
a tree weighed down by its load of fruit.
- the weight supported by a structure or part.
- the amount of work assigned to or to be done by a person, team, department, machine, or mechanical system; workload:
An additional intern or assistant might lighten the load for the current staff on this project.
- something that weighs down or oppresses like a burden; onus:
Supporting her younger brothers has been a heavy load for her.
Synonyms: encumbrance, weight
- loads, Informal. a great quantity or number:
loads of fun;
loads of people.
- the charge, projectile, etc., for a firearm.
- a commission charged to buyers of mutual-fund shares.
- Engineering. any of the forces that a structure is calculated to oppose, comprising any unmoving and unvarying force dead load, any load from wind or earthquake, and any other moving or temporary force live load.
- Electricity.
- the power delivered by a generator, motor, power station, or transformer.
- a device that receives power.
- Mechanics. the external resistance overcome by an engine, dynamo, or the like, under given conditions, measured and expressed in terms of the power required.
- Geology. the burden of sediment being carried by a stream or river. Compare bed load ( def ).
- Slang. a sufficient amount of liquor drunk to cause intoxication:
He's got a load on tonight.
verb (used with object)
- to put a load on or in; fill:
to load a ship.
Synonyms: lade
- to insert a charge, projectile, etc., into (a firearm).
- to supply abundantly, lavishly, or excessively with something (often followed by down ):
They loaded us down with gifts.
- to weigh down, burden, or oppress (often followed by down, with, on, etc.):
to feel loaded down with responsibilities;
to load oneself with obligations.
Antonyms: disburden
- to place (film, tape, etc.) into a camera or other device:
He’s the employee responsible for loading and threading the film into the projector.
- to place film, tape, etc., into (a camera or other device):
The camera operator loaded the film magazine for the shoot, watched by the impatient director of photography.
- to take on as a load:
a ship loading coal.
- to add to the weight of, sometimes fraudulently:
The silver candlesticks were loaded with lead.
- Insurance. to increase (the net premium) by adding charges, as for expenses.
- to add additional or prejudicial meaning to (a statement, question, etc.):
The attorney kept loading his questions in the hope of getting the reply he wanted.
- to overcharge (a word, expression, etc.) with extraneous values of emotion, sentiment, or the like:
emotion that loads any reference to home, flag, and mother.
- to weight (dice) so that they will always come to rest with particular faces upward.
- Baseball. to have or put runners at (first, second, and third bases):
They loaded the bases with two out in the eighth inning.
- Fine Arts.
- to place a large amount of pigment on (a brush).
- to apply a thick layer of pigment to (a canvas).
- Metalworking.
- (of metal being deep-drawn) to become welded to (the drawing tool).
- (of material being ground) to fill the depressions in the surface of (a grinding wheel).
- (in powder metallurgy) to fill the cavity of (a die).
- Computers.
- to bring (a program or data) into main storage from external or auxiliary storage.
- to make (an aspect of a program or website) visible, audible, playable, or otherwise executable:
Your character is stuck in elevators between levels while the game loads the next world.
- to place (an input/output medium) into an appropriate device, as by inserting a disk into a disk drive.
- Electricity. to add (a power-absorbing device) to an electric circuit.
verb (used without object)
- to put on or take on a load, as of passengers or goods:
The bus usually loads at the side door.
- to load a firearm.
- to enter a carrier or conveyance (usually followed by into ):
The students loaded quickly into the buses.
- to become filled or occupied:
The ship loaded with people in only 15 minutes.
- Computers. to make an aspect of a program or website visible, audible, playable, or otherwise executable:
Is your operating system to blame if your browser is loading slow?
adjective
- Computers. of or relating to the process of making an aspect of a program or website visible, audible, playable, or otherwise executable:
The page load time was affecting ad revenue.
Players have complained about texture load issues, but this should be addressed in the next patch.
adverb
- loads, Informal. very much; a great deal:
Thanks loads.
It would help loads if you sent some money.
load
/ ləʊd /
noun
- something to be borne or conveyed; weight
- the usual amount borne or conveyed
- ( in combination )
a carload
- something that weighs down, oppresses, or burdens
that's a load off my mind
- a single charge of a firearm
- electrical engineering electronics
- a device that receives or dissipates the power from an amplifier, oscillator, generator, or some other source of signals
- the power delivered by a machine, generator, circuit, etc
- the force acting on a component in a mechanism or structure
- the resistance overcome by an engine or motor when it is driving a machine, etc
- an external force applied to a component or mechanism
- a load of informal.a load of a quantity of
a load of nonsense
- get a load of informal.get a load of pay attention to
- have a load on slang.have a load on to be intoxicated
- shoot one's load slang.shoot one's load (of a man) to ejaculate at orgasm
verb
- also intr to place or receive (cargo, goods, etc) upon (a ship, lorry, etc)
- to burden or oppress
- to supply or beset (someone) with in abundance or overwhelmingly
they loaded her with gifts
- to cause to be biased
to load a question
- also intr to put an ammunition charge into (a firearm)
- photog to position (a film, cartridge, or plate) in (a camera)
- to weight or bias (a roulette wheel, dice, etc)
- insurance to increase (a premium) to cover expenses, etc
- to draw power from (an electrical device, such as a generator)
- to add material of high atomic number to (concrete) to increase its effectiveness as a radiation shield
- to increase the power output of (an electric circuit)
- to increase the work required from (an engine or motor)
- to apply force to (a mechanism or component)
- computing to transfer (a program) to a memory
- load the diceload the dice
- to add weights to dice in order to bias them
- to arrange to have a favourable or unfavourable position
load
/ lōd /
- The resistance, weight, or power drain sustained by a machine or electrical circuit.
- Compare effort
- The power output of a generator or power plant.
- The amount of a pathogen or toxic substance present in an organism.
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Other Words From
- load·less adjective
- re·load noun verb
- un·der·load verb (used with object)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of load1
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Word History and Origins
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Idioms and Phrases
- get a load of, Slang.
- to listen to with interest:
Did you get a load of what she said?
- load the dice, to put someone or something in an advantageous or disadvantageous position; affect or influence the result:
Lack of sufficient education loaded the dice against him as a candidate for the job.
More idioms and phrases containing load
- bricks shy of a load
- carbo load
- get a load of
- take the load off
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Example Sentences
He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load.
“JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.
Today, the quaint spectacle of a stage-managed fairy-tale celebration strikes many of us as a load of garbage.
He would load his chair with groceries and other purchases, once a 30-roll package of toilet paper.
Biden made many visits to Baghdad and no doubt get fed a load of bull about inclusion on each one.
But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
Longcluse looked animated—smiling; but a stupendous load lay on his heart.
He had come down after the wagon load, which had to be pitched on again rather more deliberately.
Thus a straw rope enclosing twenty or more eggs, well protected, was made and thrown over the top of the load.
A most comical sight was the cook, perched on top of his load of pans, pots, and potatoes.
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