'Load' definitions:
Definition of 'load'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads" [syn: load, loading]
noun
Goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment]
noun
An amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate; "he got a load on and started a brawl"
noun
The power output of a generator or power plant
noun
An onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus]
noun
A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks [syn: lode, load]
noun
The front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents [syn: warhead, payload, load]
noun
Electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
verb
verb
Provide (a device) with something necessary; "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera" [syn: load, charge]
verb
Transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
verb
Put (something) on a structure or conveyance; "load the bags onto the trucks"
verb
Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase]
Definition of 'Load'
From: GCIDE
- Load \Load\ (l[=o]d), n. [OE. lode load, way; properly the same word as lode, but confused with lade, load, v. See Lade, Lead, v., Lode.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- He might such a load To town with his ass carry. --Gower. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care. " A . . . load of guilt." --Ray. " Our life's a load." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Weight or violence of blows. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Mach.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working. [1913 Webster]
- 8. The amount of work that a person, group, or machine is assigned to perform; as, the boss distributed the load evenly among his employees. [PJC]
- 9. (Elec.) The device or devices that consume power from a power supply. [PJC]
- 10. (Engineering) The weight or force that a structural support bears or is designed to bear; the object that creates that force. [PJC]
- Load line, or Load water line (Naut.), the line on the outside of a vessel indicating the depth to which it sinks in the water when loaded.
- Syn: Burden; lading; weight; cargo. See Burden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Load'
From: GCIDE
- Load \Load\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Loading. Loaden is obsolete, and laden belongs to lade.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- I strive all in vain to load the cart. --Gascoigne. [1913 Webster]
- I have loaden me with many spoils. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Those honors deep and broad, wherewith Your majesty loads our house. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine. [Cant] [1913 Webster]
- 3. To magnetize. [Obs.] --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- Loaded dice, dice with one side made heavier than the others, so that the number on the opposite side will come up oftenest. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'load'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundance,
- acres,
- adulterate,
- affliction,
- albatross,
- anxiety,
- bag,
- baggage,
- bags,
- bale,
- barrel,
- barrels,
- bear,
- bear hard upon,
- bellyful,
- bitter cup,
- bitter draft,
- bitter draught,
- bitter pill,
- blast,
- bottle,
- box,
- brim,
- bumper,
- burden,
- burden of care,
- burdening,
- burthen,
- bushel,
- can,
- cankerworm of care,
- capacity,
- care,
- cargo,
- carload,
- carry,
- cartload,
- ceil,
- charge,
- charging,
- chock,
- choke,
- cock,
- complement,
- congest,
- consignment,
- convey,
- cook,
- copiousness,
- countlessness,
- cram,
- crate,
- cross,
- crowd,
- crown of thorns,
- crush,
- cumber,
- cumbrance,
- curse,
- deadweight,
- debase,
- detonate,
- difficulty,
- disadvantage,
- discharge,
- distress,
- doctor,
- drag,
- drain,
- drop,
- duty,
- eject,
- embarrassment,
- encumber,
- encumbrance,
- face,
- fake,
- feather,
- fell,
- fill,
- fill to overflowing,
- fill up,
- fire,
- fire off,
- flood,
- freight,
- freightage,
- full house,
- full load,
- full measure,
- fur,
- gall,
- gall and wormwood,
- get up steam,
- glut,
- go hard with,
- go ill with,
- gobs,
- goods,
- gorge,
- grievance,
- gun,
- gun for,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- haul,
- heap,
- heap up,
- hit,
- impediment,
- impedimenta,
- imposition,
- inconvenience,
- incubus,
- incumbency,
- infliction,
- inlay,
- interline,
- jam,
- jam up,
- jam-pack,
- juggle,
- lade,
- lading,
- let fly,
- let off,
- liability,
- lie on,
- line,
- loading,
- luggage,
- lumber,
- manipulate,
- mass,
- millstone,
- mountain,
- mouthful,
- much,
- multitude,
- numerousness,
- obligation,
- ocean,
- oceans,
- onus,
- oodles,
- oppress,
- oppression,
- overburden,
- overfill,
- overload,
- oversupply,
- overtax,
- overtaxing,
- overweight,
- overweighting,
- overwhelm,
- pack,
- pack away,
- pack of troubles,
- pad,
- parcel,
- payload,
- peck,
- peck of troubles,
- pelt,
- penalty,
- pepper,
- pick off,
- pile,
- pistol,
- plant,
- plenitude,
- plenty,
- plug,
- pocket,
- pot,
- potshoot,
- potshot,
- press hard upon,
- pressure,
- prime,
- profusion,
- quantities,
- quantity,
- ram in,
- responsibility,
- rest hard upon,
- retouch,
- riddle,
- rig,
- sack,
- saddle,
- saddle with,
- saddling,
- salt,
- satiate,
- saturate,
- sea,
- sea of troubles,
- set,
- ship,
- shipload,
- shipment,
- shoot,
- shoot at,
- shoot down,
- skinful,
- slew,
- snipe,
- snootful,
- sophisticate,
- sorrow,
- spate,
- squeeze,
- stack,
- steam up,
- store,
- stow,
- strike,
- stuff,
- superabundance,
- supercharge,
- superfluity,
- superincumbency,
- surcharge,
- surfeit,
- swamp,
- take a potshot,
- tamper with,
- task,
- tax,
- taxing,
- thorn,
- tons,
- top off,
- torpedo,
- trailerload,
- trainload,
- transport,
- trouble,
- truckload,
- try one,
- vanload,
- volume,
- wad,
- wads,
- wainscot,
- warhead,
- warm up,
- waters of bitterness,
- weigh,
- weigh down,
- weigh heavy on,
- weigh on,
- weigh upon,
- weight,
- white elephant,
- wind,
- wind up,
- woe,
- world,
- worlds,
- worry
Words containing 'Load'
- Loaded,
- Loading,
- load down,
- load up,
- loaded down,
- loads,
- Live load,
- Load line,
- Loaded dice,
- Proof load,
- Running load,
- Surface loading,
- To lay on load,
- carbo loading,
- carbohydrate loading,
- cart load,
- case load,
- dead load,
- get a load,
- laden loaded,
- load factor,
- loading area,
- loading dock,
- loading zone,
- power loading,
- span loading,
- wing loading,
- work load,
- Breech-loading,
- Load water line,
- Muzzle-loading,
- load-bearing,
- load-shedding,
- self-loading,
- spring-loaded