English

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-load.ogg|Audio (US)

• Homophones: lode, lowed

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��d|-��d

Etymology
Old English l�d

Noun
en-noun

1. A burden; a weight to be carried.

#: I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.

1. figuratively A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
2. 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.

1. 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.

1. The volume of work required to be performed.

#: Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?

1. 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.

1. electrical engineering The electrical current or power delivered by a device.

#: I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.

Translations
trans-top|burden
Finnish: kuorma
French: charge#French|charge f
trans-mid
Kurdish: KUchar|بار
Old English: hlæst n
Polish: ci�żar m, obci�żenie n
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trans-top|number of articles that can be transported or processed at one time
Finnish: kuorma, lasti
trans-mid
Polish: �adunek m, �adowno�� f
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trans-top|in plural: colloquial: a large number or amount
French: des tas (of: de) m plural
Italian: un sacco (of: di) m singular
trans-mid
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Verb
en-verb|loads|loading|loaded|loaded or archaic loaden

1. (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.

1. transitive To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.

#: I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.

1. 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 you're ready to start shooting.

1. transitive (computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

#: Click OK to load the selected data.

1. intransitive (computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

#: This program takes an age to load.

1. transitive baseball To fill the bases with runners

#: He walks to load the bases.

1. transitive context|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.

Translations
trans-top|put a load on
Finnish: ladata, lastata
French: charger#French|charger
trans-mid
Polish: �adowa�, obci�ża�
Russian: заг��жа��
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trans-top|fill a firearm or artillery
Finnish: ladata
French: charger#French|charger
trans-mid
Polish: za�adowa�
Russian: за��жа��
trans-bottom

trans-top|computing: read data or a program into memory
Finnish: ladata
French: charger#French|charger
trans-mid
Polish: wgra�, za�adowa�
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Derived terms
top2
load-bearing
loaded
loading
download
upload
mid2
loadsamoney
payload
shitload
unit load

Spanish

Verb
load

1. Second-person plural imperative of loar.

fa:load
fr:load
io:load
it:load
hu:load
ru:load
fi:load
ta:load
te:load
vi:load
uk:load
zh:load

• 2007-12-03 05:48 - Michael Devore - /* Noun */ possessive its typo in quote; checked against source, typo not there

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