Load
[ləʊd] or [lod]
Definition
(noun.) weight to be borne or conveyed.
(noun.) electrical device to which electrical power is delivered.
(noun.) the power output of a generator or power plant.
(noun.) an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate; 'he got a load on and started a brawl'.
(noun.) a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; 'the system broke down under excessive loads'.
(verb.) fill or place a load on; 'load a car'; 'load the truck with hay'.
(verb.) provide (a device) with something necessary; 'He loaded his gun carefully'; 'load the camera'.
(verb.) put (something) on a structure or conveyance; 'load the bags onto the trucks'.
(verb.) transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory.
(verb.) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; 'adulterate liquor'.
Editor: Mary--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) 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.
(v.) 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.
(v.) That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.
(v.) 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.
(v.) The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.
(v.) Weight or violence of blows.
(v.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.
(v. t.) To magnetize.
Inputed by Leila
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Burden, weight.[2]. Lading, cargo, freight.[3]. Encumbrance, pressure, clog, incubus, drag weight, dead weight.
v. a. [1]. Freight, lade, put or lay a load upon.[2]. Encumber, oppress, burden, weigh down.
Typist: Sam
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Burden, charge, lade, cargo, cumber, oppress
ANT:Disburden, unload, disencumber, lighten, alleviate, believe
SYN:Weight, lading, cargo, oppression, incubus, drag, burden
ANT:Refreshment, support, solace, alleviation, emptiness, lightness
Typist: Sonia
Definition
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.
Editor: Xenia
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you carry a load, signifies a long existence filled with labors of love and charity. To fall under a load, denotes your inability to attain comforts that are necessary to those looking to you for subsistence. To see others thus engaged, denotes trials for them in which you will be interested.
Editor: Lois
Examples
- The load is supported by 6 strands, and each strand bears one sixth of the load. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- My horse hasn't got a load behind him going back, as he had coming up in the mornin'; and he won't be long a-doing of it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- She had often vainly applied to her parents, as well as to her uncle, Lord Carysfort, who only wrote to load her with reproaches. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I could not load it on the wagons, of course, at that time, but I could drive, and the choppers would load, and some one at the house unload. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Don't cry, he said, awkward not only from the load. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He will load the gun for thee. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- These cranes, adapted for the lifting and carrying of enormous loads, were worked by hydraulic pressure obtained from elevated tanks or reservoirs, as above indicated. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This gun and carriage break up into four loads of approximately 200 pounds each. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Three tumbrils faring away with their dread loads over the hushing snow. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He looked small and gray-headed and Robert Jordan thought, I wonder how he ever carried such big loads if that is the size he really was. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It requires several ship loads of wood to supply the requirements of Lucifer-match makers; and ingenious contrivances have been patented for cutting it up into splints of the proper size. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- We procured full loads for our entire train at two plantations, which could easily have furnished as much more. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We passed a long column of loaded mules, the drivers walking along beside the mules wearing red fezzes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Approximately 150 loaded freight cars are sent out every day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Is it any wonder that its captains and commanders and officials, nay, even its clerks and common soldiers, came back to England loaded with spoils? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were all loaded heavily and they climbed slowly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Empty trains were obliged to leave the road free for loaded ones. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A breech-loading rifle was also invented about this time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A form of breech-loading cannon was introduced in the sixteenth century, but the advantageous use of this device is of late invention. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After loading the pawls are tripped, and the greater gravity of the counterweight raises the gun to firing position again. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It was this weapon which in the Civil War gave proof of the deadly efficacy of the breech-loading magazine gun, and its superiority to the old style military arm. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- With sensitive accumulators of this character hydraulic machinery is much used on board ships for steering them, and for loading, discharging and storing cargoes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The infantry with their muzzle-loading muskets could not keep up a steady enough fire to wither determined cavalry before it charged home. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Presently there emerged from the mountain a canoe laden with lost souls from the outer world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Warehouses were lightened, ships were laden; work abounded, wages rose; the good time seemed come. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But having turned its back upon the present, it has no way of returning to it laden with the spoils of the past. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Pity the laden one; this wandering woe May visit you and me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I see trees laden with ripening fruit. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The place in front was littered with straw where the vans had been laden and rolled off. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Edited by Dorothy