Definitions for loader
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
loadloʊd(n.)
anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo:
a truck with a load of watermelons.
the quantity that can be or usu. is carried at one time, as in a cart.
this quantity taken as a unit of measure or weight (usu. used in combination):
carload.
burden:
a tree weighed down by its load of fruit.
the weight supported by a structure or part.
Category: Civil Engineering
the amount of work assigned to or to be done as by a person, team, or mechanical system.
something that oppresses like a burden:
That's a load off my mind.
loads,Informal. a great quantity or number:
loads of fun.
the charge for a firearm.
Category: Military
a commission charged to buyers of mutual-fund shares.
Category: Business
any of the unmoving and unvarying forces that a structure is designed to oppose, as stress from wind or earthquake.
Category: Civil Engineering, Mechanics
the power delivered by a generator, motor, power station, or transformer. a device that receives power.
Category: Electricity and Magnetism
the external resistance overcome by an engine, dynamo, or the like, under given conditions, measured and expressed in terms of the power required.
Category: Mechanics
Slang. a sufficient amount of liquor drunk to cause intoxication:
He's got a load on tonight.
(v.t.)to put a load on or in; fill:
to load a ship.
to supply abundantly, lavishly, or excessively with something (often fol. by down):
They loaded us down with gifts.
to weigh down, burden, or oppress (often fol. by down):
to load oneself down with obligations.
to insert a charge, projectile, etc., into (a firearm).
Category: Military
to place (film, tape, etc.) into a camera or other device.
Category: Photography
to place film, tape, etc., into (a camera or other device).
Category: Photography
to take on as a load:
a ship loading coal.
to add to the weight of, sometimes fraudulently:
The silver candlesticks were loaded with lead.
to increase (the net premium of an insurance policy) by adding charges, as for expenses.
Category: Business
to overcharge (a word, expression, etc.) with extraneous values of emotion, sentiment, or the like.
to add additional or prejudicial meaning to (a statement, question, etc.):
The attorney kept loading his questions in the hope of getting the reply he wanted.
Category: Business
Baseball. to have or put runners at (first, second, and third bases):
to load the bases with two out in the eighth inning.
Category: Sport
to bring (a program or data) into a computer's RAM, as from a disk, so as to make it available for processing. to place (an input/output medium) into an appropriate device, as by inserting a disk into a disk drive.
Category: Computers
to add (a power-absorbing device) to an electric circuit.
Category: Electricity and Magnetism
(v.i.)to put on or take on a load, as of passengers or goods:
All trucks load at the platform.
to load a firearm.
Category: Military
to enter a conveyance:
The students loaded quickly into the buses.
to become filled or occupied.
(adv.)loads,Informal. very much.
Idioms for load:
get a load of, Slang. to look at or listen to.
Category: Idiom, Status (usage)
Origin of load:
bef. 1000; ME lode (n.)
load′er(n.)
Princeton's WordNet
stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper(noun)
a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
loader(noun)
an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game
Wiktionary
loader(Noun)
Agent noun of load; a person or device that loads.
loader(Noun)
A program that prepares other programs for execution.
Origin: to load + -er
Webster Dictionary
Loader(noun)
one who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun
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