load

load - English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA: /loʊd/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ləʊd/

Noun

load (plural loads)

  1. A burden; a weight to be carried.
    • I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
  2. (figuratively) 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.
    • Synonym: washload
    • I put a load on before we left.
  5. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
  6. (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.
  7. The volume of work required to be performed.
    • Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
  8. (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.
  9. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
    • I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
  10. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
  11. (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.
  12. A unit of measure for various quantities.
  13. The viral load
  14. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
  15. The charge of powder for a firearm.
  16. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
  17. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
  18. (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
    • What a load!
  19. (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.
  20. (Philippines) prepaid phone credit

Synonyms

Hyponyms

  • (112 cartload of wool & for smaller divisions): wey
  • (130 cartload of lead & for smaller divisions): fotmal
  • (136 cartload of straw or hay & for smaller divisions): truss

Derived terms

Terms derived from load (noun)
ark load
  • see English words derived from: load (noun)

Translations

Verb

load (third-person singular simple present loads, present participle loading, simple past loaded, past participle loaded or (archaic) loaden)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.
  3. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
    • The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.
  4. (intransitive) To receive a load.
    • The truck is designed to load easily.
  5. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
    • The containers load quickly and easily.
  6. (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
    • I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
  7. (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.
  8. (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
    • The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
  9. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
    • The cartridge was designed to load easily.
  10. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
    • Click OK to load the selected data.
  11. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
    • This program takes an age to load.
  12. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
    • He walks to load the bases.
  13. (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.
  14. (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
  15. (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.
  16. (transitive) To provide in abundance.
    • He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
    • He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
  17. (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
  18. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
    • to load wine
  19. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.
  20. (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits

Derived terms

  • See English words derived from: load (verb)

Translations

  • Bulgarian: обременявам (bg) (obremenjavam)
  • Finnish: kuormittaa (fi)

Noun

load (plural loads)

  1. (Internet slang, obsolete) 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!

Anagrams

load - Cebuano

Noun

load

  1. prepaid phone credit

Verb

load

  1. to top up or purchase phone credits

load - Chinese

Pronunciation

  • Cantonese (Jyutping): lou1

Verb

load (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. (computing) to load (a webpage or an application)
  2. to receive mobile data; to connect to the Internet
    • load空氣load空气 [Cantonese]   lou1 hung1 hei3 [Jyutping]   to have a very poor Internet connection
  3. (figuratively) to comprehend; to think about; to ponder; to understand
  4. (figuratively, of text or images) to appear; to display

Quotations

  • For quotations using this term, see load.

load - Estonian

Noun

load

  1. nominative plural of luba

load - Spanish

Verb

load

  1. second-person plural imperative of loar
Meaning and Definition of load
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