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Load   /loʊd/   Listen
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



... sacrifice easy, and meek endurance possible. Love enriches, ennobles, and blesses. It sweetens the bitter cup: it lightens the heavy load. It strengthens the faltering soul. Let us, therefore, see that we have fervent love toward God, toward each other, and toward the ...
— Heart Talks • Charles Wesley Naylor

... load of correspondence and anxiety was additional to the numerous unrecorded cares and interviews, relating to the routine work and maintenance of a great squadron, often left bare of resources from home, and to the support of the destitute population of Malta,—sixty ...
— The Life of Nelson, Vol. II. (of 2) - The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain • A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

... tell me what may be Within that precious load Which thou dost bear with such fine care ...
— Life and Literature - Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, - and classified in alphabetical order • J. Purver Richardson

... the weekly message. But when a publication has to be put to press on the same day every week, when one feels almost instinctively that each issue must be better than the one before, and when each week of the world every worker in the department carries a double or triple load, some of the pleasure of writing and editing and planning ...
— The Torch Bearer - A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the - Woman's Movement • Agnes E. Ryan

... introduced that which I think is fairly entitled to rank among principles of construction, the light upper chain, from which are suspended the linked truss-rods, doing the actual work of supporting the load, the rods being maintained in straight lines, and without the flexure at the joints due to their weight. In the East River Bridge, New York, there was also introduced that which I believe was a novelty in the mode of applying the wire cables. These were not made as untwisted ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 • Various


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