load

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Noun

1. A burden; a weight to be carried.
   • I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
2. A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
3. 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.
4. A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
   • I put a load on before we left.
5. Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
6. A large number or amount.
   • I got loads of presents for my birthday!
   • I got a load of emails about that.
7. The volume of work required to be performed.
   • Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
8. 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.
9. The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
   • I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
10. A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
11. Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
    • Connect a second 24-ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
12. A unit of measure for various quantities.
13. Ellipsis of viral load.
14. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
15. The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
16. Weight or violence of blows.
17. Defecation.
18. The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
19. Nonsense; rubbish.
    • What a load!
20. The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
    • All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.
21. Prepaid phone credit.

Verb

1. To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
   • The dock workers refused to load the ship.
2. To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
   • The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.
   • He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.
3. To put a load on something.
   • The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.
4. To receive a load.
   • The truck is designed to load easily.
5. To be placed into storage or conveyance.
   • The containers load quickly and easily.
6. To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
   • I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
7. 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 [into the camera], you're ready to start shooting.
   • Now that you've loaded the camera [with film], you're ready to start shooting.
8. To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
   • The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
9. To be put into use in an apparatus.
   • The cartridge was designed to load easily.
10. To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
    • Click OK to load the selected data.
11. To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
    • The file took ten minutes to load.
    • This program takes an age to load.
12. To put runners on first, second and third bases
    • He walks to load the bases.
13. To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
    • 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.
14. To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
15. To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
    • The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
    • The new owners loaded debt on the company.
16. To provide in abundance.
    • He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
    • He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
17. To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
18. To adulterate or drug.
    • to load wine
19. To magnetize.
20. to top up or purchase phone credits

Noun

1. A person that spends all day online. The term was originally used in the late 1980s to describe users on free Q-Link (later America Online) accounts who never signed off the system at great expense to the company.
   • She never logs off; she is a real LOAD!

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