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Load

noun

1.

Weight to be borne or conveyed. Synonyms: burden, loading.

2.

A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time. Synonym: loading.

3.

Goods carried by a large vehicle. Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, loading, payload, shipment.

4.

An amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate.

5.

The power output of a generator or power plant.

6.

An onerous or difficult concern. Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus. "That's a load off my mind"

7.

A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks. Synonym: lode.

8.

The front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents. Synonyms: payload, warhead.

9.

Electrical device to which electrical power is delivered.

verb

(past & past part. loaded; pres. part. loading)

1.

Fill or place a load on. Synonyms: lade, laden, load up. "Load the truck with hay"

2.

Provide (a device) with something necessary. Synonym: charge. "Load the camera"

3.

Transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory.

4.

Put (something) on a structure or conveyance.

5.

Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones. Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, stretch.

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"Load" Quotes from Famous Books

... so I did not pocket my share from the sale of the horses, but to celebrate my promotion, I bought from the inn-keeper two sheep, an enormous cheese and a load of wine, with which my detachment had a feast. This was one of the happiest days ...

— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot

... garden, sinner; see Those precious drops that flow; The heavy load he bore for thee; For thee he ...

— Hymns for Christian Devotion - Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination • J.G. Adams

... souls means having to bear with the weak, for the strong are able to go on by themselves in their progress towards what is good. Our holy Bishop explained this by two beautiful similitudes: "The plumage of birds is heavy, and yet without this load they could neither raise themselves from the ground nor hover in the air. The burden borne by holy souls is like a load of cinnamon, which, by its perfume invigorates him who carries it. So souls which are weak serve ...

— The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales • Jean Pierre Camus

... he was having his scene with me. She knew he would go and begin to pull the things about without having the sense to know what he was doing. She had seen him do it before. I know it was she who put the load in. We have never uttered a word to each other about it, but I know she did it, and that she knows I know. Before I married Alec, I did not understand how one human being could kill another. He taught me to understand, ...

— Emily Fox-Seton - Being The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... a bright day with a most saturnine and wo-begone visage, informing you that he is in a terrible way, that his food distresses him, and he can't any longer take comfort in eating. He places his hand in the region of his stomach, remarks that he feels a great load there, and makes the usual complaints of a dyspeptic. He is pathetic over the fact that his physician has denied him fried oysters and mince pie for evening lunch, and closes his observations by exclaiming in a moralizing ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

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