load | |
1. n. A burden; a weight to be carried. | |
I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack. | |
2. n. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind. | |
3. n. 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. n. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle | |
5. n. (often, in the colloquial) A large number or amount. | |
I got loads of presents for my birthday! | |
I got a load of emails about that. | |
6. n. The volume of work required to be performed. | |
Will our web servers be able to cope with that load? | |
7. n. (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. | |
8. n. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device. | |
I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high. | |
9. n. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work. | |
10. n. (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. | |
11. n. A unit of measure for various quantities. | |
12. n. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar. | |
13. n. The charge of powder for a firearm. | |
14. n. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows. | |
15. n. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation. | |
16. n. (euphemism) Nonsense; rubbish. | |
What a load! | |
17. n. (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. | |
18. v. To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage). | |
The dock workers refused to load the ship. | |
19. v. 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. | |
20. v. (intransitive) To put a load on something. | |
The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading. | |
21. v. (intransitive) To receive a load. | |
The truck is designed to load easily. | |
22. v. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance. | |
The containers load quickly and easily. | |
23. v. To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition. | |
I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun. | |
24. v. 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. | |
25. v. To fill (an apparatus) with raw material. | |
The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore. | |
26. v. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus. | |
The cartridge was designed to load easily. | |
27. v. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory. | |
Click OK to load the selected data. | |
28. v. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory. | |
This program takes an age to load. | |
29. v. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases | |
He walks to load the bases. | |
30. v. 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. | |
31. v. To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way. | |
32. v. 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. | |
33. v. To provide in abundance. | |
He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon. | |
He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon. | |
34. v. To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead. | |
35. v. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug. | |
to load wine | |
36. v. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize. | |