What does load mean?

Definitions for load
loʊdload

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. load, loading, burdennoun

    weight to be borne or conveyed

  2. load, loadingnoun

    a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time

    "the system broke down under excessive loads"

  3. cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignmentnoun

    goods carried by a large vehicle

  4. loadnoun

    an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate

    "he got a load on and started a brawl"

  5. loadnoun

    the power output of a generator or power plant

  6. burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onusnoun

    an onerous or difficult concern

    "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind"

  7. lode, loadnoun

    a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks

  8. warhead, payload, loadnoun

    the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents

  9. loadverb

    electrical device to which electrical power is delivered

  10. load, lade, laden, load upverb

    fill or place a load on

    "load a car"; "load the truck with hay"

  11. load, chargeverb

    provide (a device) with something necessary

    "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera"

  12. loadverb

    transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory

  13. loadverb

    put (something) on a structure or conveyance

    "load the bags onto the trucks"

  14. load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debaseverb

    corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones

    "adulterate liquor"

GCIDE

  1. Loadnoun

    The amount of work that a person, group, or machine is assigned to perform; as, the boss distributed the load evenly among his employees.

  2. Loadnoun

    (Elec.) The device or devices that consume power from a power supply.

  3. Loadnoun

    (Engineering) The weight or force that a structural support bears or is designed to bear; the object that creates that force.

Wiktionary

  1. loadnoun

    A burden; a weight to be carried.

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

  2. loadnoun

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

  3. loadnoun

    A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.

  4. loadnoun

    A large number or amount.

  5. loadnoun

    The volume of work required to be performed.

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

  6. loadnoun

    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.

  7. loadnoun

    The electrical current or power delivered by a device.

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

  8. loadnoun

    Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.

    Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.

  9. loadverb

    To put a load on (something).

  10. loadverb

    To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.

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

  11. loadverb

    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.

  12. loadverb

    To fill (a reactor or similar) with raw material.

    Layers of iron ore and coke are loaded into the blast furnace.

  13. loadverb

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

    Click OK to load the selected data.

  14. loadverb

    To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

    This program takes an age to load.

  15. loadverb

    To put runners on first, second and third bases

    He walks to load the bases.

  16. loadverb

    To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome. Often used figuratively, to indicate the gaining of an advantage.

  17. loadverb

    To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.

  18. loadnoun

    A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight.

  19. loadnoun

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

  20. loadnoun

    A slang term for semen.

    Yeah, she was suckin' on me and I blew my load right in her face.

  21. Etymology: From lode, loade, from lad, from laidō, from leit-, from lei-. Etymologically identical with lode, which preserved the older meaning. Cognate with leide, Leite, led, leið.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Loadnoun

    Etymology: hlade , Saxon.

    Then on his back he laid the precious load,
    And sought his wonted shelter. John Dryden, Nun’s Tale.

    How a man can have a quiet and cheerful mind under a great burden and load of guilt, I know not, unless he be very ignorant. John Ray, on Creation.

    There are those that can never sleep without their load, nor enjoy one easy thought, till they have laid all their cares to rest with a bottle. Roger L'Estrange.

  2. Loadnoun

    The leading vein in a mine.

    Etymology: læden , Saxon, to load.

    The tin lay couched at first in certain strakes amongst the rocks, like the veins in a man’s body, from the depth whereof the main load spreadeth out his branches, until they approach the open air. Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall.

    Their manner of working in the load mines, is to follow the load as it lieth. Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall.

  3. To Loadverb

    Etymology: hladan , Saxon.

    At last, laden with honour’s spoils,
    Returns the good Andronicus to Rome. William Shakespeare.

    Your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the beast. Isa. xlvi. 1.

    He that makes no reflexions on what he reads, only loads his mind with a rhapsody of tales, fit in winter nights for the entertainment of others. John Locke.

    A mariner having discharged his gun, and loading it suddenly again, the powder took fire. Richard Wiseman.

    Thy dreadful vow, loaden with death, still sounds
    In my stunn’d ears. Joseph Addison, Cato.

ChatGPT

  1. load

    Load generally refers to the amount of weight or pressure being placed on a particular object or system. This term is commonly used in various fields such as engineering, computing, and electrical systems. In the context of computing, it can refer to the amount of processing a system or server is performing. While in engineering, it may refer to the stress or force exerted on a structure or material.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Load

    a burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load

  2. Load

    the quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading

  3. Load

    that which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care

  4. Load

    a particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters

  5. Load

    the charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder

  6. Load

    weight or violence of blows

  7. Load

    the work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working

  8. Loadverb

    to lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon

  9. Loadverb

    to adulterate or drug; as, to load wine

  10. Loadverb

    to magnetize

  11. Etymology: [OE. lode load, way; properly the same word as lode, but confused with lade, load, v. See Lade, Lead, v., Lode.]

Wikidata

  1. Load

    Load is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica. Released on June 1, 1996 through Elektra Records, it sold 680,000 units in its first week and the biggest debut of 1996. Load debuted at #1 on Billboard 200. The album has sold over five million copies in United States and is certified 5x platinum by the RIAA. Four singles were released in part of the marketing campaign of the album: "Until It Sleeps", "Hero of the Day", "Mama Said", and "King Nothing". The album garnered backlash from a portion of the band's fan base because of a shift in tone from the group's previous efforts. According to drummer Lars Ulrich: "This album and what we're doing with it – that, to me, is what Metallica are all about: exploring different things. The minute you stop exploring, then just sit down and fucking die."

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Load

    lōd, v.t. to lade or burden: to put on as much as can be carried: to heap on: to put on overmuch: to confer or give in great abundance: to weigh down, to oppress: to weight by something specially added: to charge, as a gun: to make heavy, as a thin wine: to mix with white: to lay on colour in masses.—v.i. to put or take on a load: to charge a gun: to become loaded or burdened.—n. a lading or burden: as much as can be carried at once: freight or cargo: a measure: any large quantity borne: a quantity sustained with difficulty: that which burdens or grieves: a weight or encumbrance.—Load′en, old pa.p. of load.—ns. Load′er, one who, or that which, loads; Load′ing, the act of lading: a charge, cargo, or lading; Load′ing-machine′, a contrivance for loading cartridge-shells; Load′ing-tray, an iron frame on which a shot or shell is placed and brought forward into the opening in the breech of a gun; Load′-line, a line along the ship's side to mark the depth to which her proper cargo causes her to sink—also Plimsoll's mark.—Load a cane, whip, to weight it with lead, &c.; Load dice, to make one side heavier than the other, for purposes of cheating; Load wine, to falsify by mixing it with distilled liquor, sugar, &c. [A.S. hladan, pa.t. hlód, to load.]

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Load

    In a dynamo the amperes of current delivered by it under any given conditions.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. load

    The total weight of passengers and/or freight carried on board a ship, aircraft, train, road vehicle, or other means of conveyance. See also airlift capability; airlift requirement.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. load

    The charge of a fire-arm; as, a load of powder.

  2. load

    To place a charge in; to charge, as a gun, with powder, or with powder and shot, or ball.

  3. load

    A word of command given when men are to charge their guns or rifles.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'load' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4333

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'load' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1331

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'load' in Nouns Frequency: #1106

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'load' in Verbs Frequency: #685

Anagrams for load »

  1. dola

  2. odal

  3. alod

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of load in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of load in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of load in a Sentence

  1. Tana Goertz:

    If I have to load up the Trump bus and pick up loads of people and get them to their caucus, I'll do that. I've got snow tires for the (Trump) bus and I'm ready to pick them up and get their butts to caucus.

  2. Semaj Carter:

    It took a load off, a pressure off, once I began to figure out that my life does not solely depend on whether I’m successful on the court, my life started to change.

  3. Jason Arnold:

    You would load up a Humvee and help toss garbage out, every time we went out, they would just hand out those cheap, paper filter masks. We knew it was bad, but if you’re given an order, you do it.

  4. Mike Minnis:

    I think there is a misconception that every NFL player is on a 6,000-calorie diet. That is not necessarily true, one thing to consider is that the training load and stimulus of practices and overall training usually changes as the season progresses, and as a result, the athlete is not burning near the same number of calories that he was earlier in training camp and at the beginning of the season.

  5. Edward Machtinger:

    Complex trauma is what led many of my patients to get HIV in first place and gets them to remain depressed, stay addicted and have trouble adhering to their meds, medicine and HIV primary care has not considered these health issues to be in their domain and their responsibility. I've heard many clinicians brag about having patients on crack be undetectable in their viral load, as if HIV was going to kill them in the first place. It's not. Crack is going to kill them.

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Translations for load

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  • عبأ, حمل, شحنArabic
  • carregarCatalan, Valencian
  • naložitCzech
  • ladeDanish
  • ein Haufen, ladenGerman
  • φορτίο, φορτία, βάρος, φόρτωμα, φόρτος, φορτώνω, οπλίζω, γεμίζωGreek
  • ŝarĝiEsperanto
  • carga, cargamento, cargarSpanish
  • laadung, last, koorem, laadimaEstonian
  • kuorma, taakka, lasti, panostaa, kuormata, johdatella, ladata, täyttää, lastata, painottaa, laittaaFinnish
  • løðaFaroese
  • tas, charge, puissance, paquet, chargerFrench
  • luchd, luchdaichScottish Gaelic
  • भारHindi
  • բեռArmenian
  • carica, saccoItalian
  • 負荷, 多量, 荷物, 積載量, 仕事量, 読み込む, 載せる, 積み込む, 弾を込める, 積む, 装塡するJapanese
  • 짐, 싣다Korean
  • بار, بار به‌ستینKurdish
  • luedenLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
  • krautLatvian
  • utanga, wahanga, kawenga, whakauta, whakapuru, puru, utaMāori
  • belasting, hoop, vermogen, gewicht, heel wat, lading, laden, inladen, inlezenDutch
  • cargarOccitan
  • ładowność, obciążenie, mnóstwo, ładunek, ciężar, wgrać, obciążać, załadować, ładowaćPolish
  • monte, carregamento, fardo, carga, carregarPortuguese
  • tgargia, carga, chargia, chargiar, charger, cargear, carger, cargarRomansh
  • sarcină, încărcaRomanian
  • нагрузка, груз, грузить, загружать, загрузить, заряжать, нагрузить, нагружать, зарядитьRussian
  • carrigai, carricare, carriai, carriare, carrigareSardinian
  • ngarkojAlbanian
  • last, börda, laddaSwedish
  • mzigoSwahili
  • పనిభారము, భారము, సరుకు, నింపుట, సరుకు ఎక్కించుటTelugu
  • tcherdjîWalloon
  • 加载Chinese

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