load
load - English
Pronunciation
Noun
load (plural loads)
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
- (figuratively) 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.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- Synonym: washload
- I put a load on before we left.
- (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
- Synonyms: see lot
- I got loads of presents for my birthday!
- I got a load of emails about that.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
- (engineering) 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.
- (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
- (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- (electrical engineering) 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 for various quantities.
- The viral load
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- The charge of powder for a firearm.
- (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
- (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- What a load!
- (computing) 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.
- (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from load (noun)
- assload
- axle load, axleload
- backload, back load
- ball load
- barrowload
- bed load, bedload
- blow one's load
- blowing a load
- boatload
- breakeven load factor
- busload
- butt load
- butt-load
- buttload
- carload
- cartload
- caseload
- church-load
- coachload
- cognitive load
- cop a load of
- course load
- crate shy of a load
- critical load
- crush load
- cumload
- dead load
- design load
- download
- drop a load
- dump one's load
- dynamic load
- eager load
- fire load
- front load
- front-load
- fuel load
- functional load
- get a load of
- get one's load on
- hotel load
- lazy load
- lazy man's load
- live load
- load bank
- load cast
- load cell
- load factor
- load fund
- load line
- load module
- load of bull
- load of crap
- load of shit
- load shedding
- load time
- load water line
- load-bearing, load bearing
- load-shedding
- load-store architecture
- loaded
- loading
- loadmaster
- loadsamoney
- lorryload
- military load class
- military load classification
- no-load
- no-load fund
- off-load
- one brick short of a full load
- overload
- payload
- running load
- sea load
- seismic load
- shedload, shed load
- shipload
- shitload
- shoot one's load
- snow load
- static load
- take a load off
- thrust load
- trailerload
- trainload
- tributary load
- truckload
- unit load
- upload
- vanload
- viral load
- wagonload
- workload
- see English words derived from: load (noun)
Translations
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Verb
load (third-person singular simple present loads, present participle loading, simple past loaded, past participle loaded or (archaic) loaden)
- (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- The dock workers refused to load the ship.
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To put a load on something.
- The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.
- (intransitive) To receive a load.
- The truck is designed to load easily.
- (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- The containers load quickly and easily.
- (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
- The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
- (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
- The cartridge was designed to load easily.
- (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- Click OK to load the selected data.
- (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- This program takes an age to load.
- (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- He walks to load the bases.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To provide in abundance.
- He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
- He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
- (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
- to load wine
- (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.
- (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
Derived terms
- See English words derived from: load (verb)
Translations
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Noun
load (plural loads)
Anagrams
load - Cebuano
Noun
load
- prepaid phone credit
Verb
load
load - Chinese
Pronunciation
- Cantonese (Jyutping): lou1
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: lou1
- Yale: lōu
- Cantonese Pinyin: lou1
- Guangdong Romanization: lou1
- Sinological IPA : /lou̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Verb
load (Hong Kong Cantonese)
- (computing) to load (a webpage or an application)
- to receive mobile data; to connect to the Internet
- (figuratively) to comprehend; to think about; to ponder; to understand
- (figuratively, of text or images) to appear; to display
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see load.
Related terms
load - Estonian
Noun
load
- nominative plural of luba
load - Spanish
Verb
load
- second-person plural imperative of loar