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noun/loʊd//ləʊd/
  1. 1

    A burden; a weight to be carried.

    • I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
  2. 2

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

    • Our life's a load.
    • I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.
  3. 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. 4

    A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.

    • I put a load on before we left.
  5. 5

    Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehiclein-compounds

  6. 6

    A large number or amount.colloquialin-pluraloften

    • I got loads of presents for my birthday!
    • I got a load of emails about that.
  7. 7

    The volume of work required to be performed.

    • Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
  8. 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. 9

    The electrical current or power delivered by a device.

    • I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
  10. 10

    A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.

verb/loʊd//ləʊd/
  1. 1

    To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).transitive

    • The dock workers refused to load the ship.
  2. 2

    To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.transitive

    • The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.
    • He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.
  3. 3

    To put a load on something.intransitive

    • The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.
  4. 4

    To receive a load.intransitive

    • The truck is designed to load easily.
  5. 5

    To be placed into storage or conveyance.intransitive

    • The containers load quickly and easily.
  6. 6

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

    • I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
  7. 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.transitive

    • 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. 8

    To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.transitive

    • The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
  9. 9

    To be put into use in an apparatus.intransitive

    • The cartridge was designed to load easily.
  10. 10

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

    • Click OK to load the selected data.
noun
  1. 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.Internetobsolete

    • She never logs off; she is a real LOAD!

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