Dictionary Definition
load
Noun
2 a quantity that can be processed or transported
at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads" [syn:
loading]
3 goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, loading, payload, shipment, consignment]
4 an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate;
"he got a load on and started a brawl"
5 the power output of a generator or power
plant
6 an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of
responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus]
7 a deposit of valuable ore occurring within
definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks [syn:
lode]
8 the front part of a guided missile or rocket or
torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the
chemical or biological agents [syn: warhead, payload]
9 electrical device to which electrical power is
delivered
Verb
2 provide with munition; "He loaded his gun
carefully" [syn: charge]
3 put (something) on a structure or conveyance;
"load the bags onto the trucks"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Old English lādNoun
- A burden; a weight to
be carried.
- I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
- A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can
be transported or processed at one time.
- The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
- She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
- The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
- often in plural
(colloquial) A large number or amount.
- I got loads of presents for my birthday!
- I got a load of emails about that.
- I got loads of presents for my birthday!
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
- The force exerted on a
structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
- The electrical
current or power
delivered by a device.
- I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
- Any component that draws current or power from an electrical
circuit.
- Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
- A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a
waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight.
- Quotations
-
- 1866: If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 172.
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
Translations
burden
- Finnish: kuorma
- French: charge
- Kurdish:
- Old English: hlæst
- Polish: ciężar , obciążenie
number of articles that can be transported or
processed at one time
in plural: colloquial: a large number or amount
Verb
- (usually transitive, occasionally intransitive) To put a load
on (something).
- The dock workers refused to load the cargo onto the ship.
- The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.
- The dock workers refused to load the cargo onto the ship.
- To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
- To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready
it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of
paper into a printer etc.
- Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.
- (computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium
into computer memory.
- Click OK to load the selected data.
- (computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer
memory.
- This program takes an age to load.
- To fill the bases with runners
- He walks to load the bases.
- In the context of "especially of dice": To tamper with so as to
produce a biased outcome. Often used figuratively, to indicate the
gaining of an advantage.
- You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company
before your interview.
- The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
- You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company
before your interview.
- To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
Translations
fill a firearm or artillery
computing: read data or a program into memory
Derived terms
Spanish
Verb
load- Second-person plural imperative of loar.
Extensive Definition
Load may refer to:
- Structural load, forces which are applied to a structure
- Cargo, Freight, or Lading
- The load of a mutual fund (see Mutual fund fees and expenses)
- The load of an insurance contract, defined as the percent increase of the expected benefits
- The genetic load of a population
- The parasite load of an organism
- Load Records, an American experimental independent record label
- Load (album), the 6th album released by the band Metallica
- Loads, A 1995 compilation of the British pop group Happy Mondays
- Electrical load, a device connected to the output of a circuit
- Electronic load, a simulated electrical load used for testing purposes
- Load (computing), a measure of how much processing a computer performs
- Load (insult), someone who is a burden or a person who's weight one has to carry (Rail Road)
- Load is also used as sexual slang to refer to semen released during male ejaculation
See also
load in Simple English: Load
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abundance, acres, adulterate, affliction, albatross, anxiety, bag, baggage, bags, bale, barrel, barrels, bear, bear hard upon, bellyful, bitter cup, bitter
draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, blast, bottle, box, brim, bumper, burden, burden of care, burdening, burthen, bushel, can, cankerworm of care, capacity, care, cargo, carload, carry, cartload, ceil, charge, charging, chock, choke, cock, complement, congest, consignment, convey, cook, copiousness, countlessness, cram, crate, cross, crowd, crown of thorns, crush, cumber, cumbrance, curse, deadweight, debase, detonate, difficulty, disadvantage, discharge, distress, doctor, drag, drain, drop, duty, eject, embarrassment, encumber, encumbrance, face, fake, feather, fell, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up,
fire, fire off, flood, freight, freightage, full house, full
load, full measure, fur,
gall, gall and wormwood,
get up steam, glut, go hard
with, go ill with, gobs,
goods, gorge, grievance, gun, gun for, hamper, handicap, haul, heap, heap up, hit, impediment, impedimenta, imposition, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, infliction, inlay, interline, jam, jam up, jam-pack, juggle, lade, lading, let fly, let off,
liability, lie on,
line, loading, luggage, lumber, manipulate, mass, millstone, mountain, mouthful, much, multitude, numerousness, obligation, ocean, oceans, onus, oodles, oppress, oppression, overburden, overfill, overload, oversupply, overtax, overtaxing, overweight, overweighting, overwhelm, pack, pack away, pack of troubles,
pad, parcel, payload, peck, peck of troubles, pelt, penalty, pepper, pick off, pile, pistol, plant, plenitude, plenty, plug, pocket, pot, potshoot, potshot, press hard upon,
pressure, prime, profusion, quantities, quantity, ram in, responsibility, rest hard
upon, retouch, riddle, rig, sack, saddle, saddle with, saddling, salt, satiate, saturate, sea, sea of troubles, set, ship, shipload, shipment, shoot, shoot at, shoot down,
skinful, slew, snipe, snootful, sophisticate, sorrow, spate, squeeze, stack, steam up, store, stow, strike, stuff, superabundance, supercharge, superfluity, superincumbency,
surcharge, surfeit, swamp, take a potshot, tamper
with, task, tax, taxing, thorn, tons, top off, torpedo, trailerload, trainload, transport, trouble, truckload, try one, vanload, volume, wad, wads, wainscot, warhead, warm up, waters of
bitterness, weigh, weigh
down, weigh heavy on, weigh on, weigh upon, weight, white elephant, wind, wind up, woe, world, worlds, worry