Unload
[ʌn'ləʊd] or ['ʌn'lod]
Definition
(verb.) take the load off (a container or vehicle); 'unload the truck'; 'offload the van'.
Editor: Sonya--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast.
(v. t.) Hence, to relieve from anything onerous.
(v. t.) To discharge or remove, as a load or a burden; as, to unload the cargo of a vessel.
(v. t.) To draw the charge from; as, to unload a gun.
(v. t.) To sell in large quantities, as stock; to get rid of.
(v. i.) To perform the act of unloading anything; as, let unload now.
Typist: Terrence
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Discharge, unlade.
Typed by Aldo
Definition
v.t. to take the load from: to discharge: to disburden: (U.S. slang) to sell in great quantity as risky stock &c.—v.i. to discharge freight.—ns. Unload′er; Unload′ing.
Typed by Brooke
Examples
- 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.
- By the old hand method it required twenty-eight men, two days and two nights, to unload a cargo of 4,000,000 pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Let them unload two of the sumpter-mules, and put the baggage behind two of the serfs. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Then I may take it that when the planes unload, the attack has started? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I'm sorry for the mistake, sir; but it would take a couple of hours to unload that there boot, and I must be off this here instant. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- With this device it is possible for three or four men to unload about 6,000 wheels each day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I must listen for them to unload. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Stretcher-bearers came in all the time, put their stretchers down, unloaded them and went away. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The four machines can be moved to any part of the dock to which steamers are moored and four ships can be unloaded rapidly at one time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Of course, this being the case, when ships were loaded or unloaded there, the goods could not be taken round to the western pass,—hence the tunnel. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Just as the operator was bringing it across the shop unloaded, he saw two laborers ahead of him in altercation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We got into Milan early in the morning and they unloaded us in the freight yard. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The instant the beam tips, the connection is broken and the feed stops instantly, thus rendering it impossible to introduce any more material until the charge has been unloaded. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In one part of the window was a picture of a red paper mill at which a cart was unloading a quantity of sacks of old rags. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Probably one of the best illustrations of the saving accomplished by means of a lifting magnet is its use in unloading pig iron from steamers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The wharves of Ostia were chiefly busy unloading corn from Sicily and Africa and loot from all the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The common practice is to attach a plank to the rear of the wagon, up which the men can walk with their arms full of fodder, which should be placed with tops all one way for ease in unloading. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Railway tracks run the full length of both crane-ways, facilitating the unloading and loading of supplies and parts. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Rowland