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Loads

noun

1.

A large number or amount. Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads. "She amassed stacks of newspapers"

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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... the venison home, and very tired were they before it was safely housed. Edward was delighted with his success, but not more so than was old Jacob. The next morning, Jacob set off for Lymington, with the pony loaded with venison, which he sold, as well as two more loads which he promised to bring the next day, and the day after. He then looked out for a cart, and was fortunate in finding a small one, just fitted to the size of the pony, who was not tall but very strong, as all ...

— The Children of the New Forest • Captain Marryat

... comers of their loads, those drive The drones afar. The busy work each plies, And sweet with thyme and honey smells the hive. "O happy ye, whose walls already rise!" Exclaimed AEneas, and with envious eyes Looked up where pinnacles and roof-tops showed The new-born ...

— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil

... skin boat or on his brushwood raft, to sell his goods and the wood forming the frame-work of his primitive craft in timberless Bagdad and Busra, as formerly in treeless Babylon. He dries out his skins, loads them on his shoulders or on a mule brought down for the purpose, and returns on foot to his highland village.[656] The same preponderance of downstream traffic appears to-day in eastern Siberia. Pedlers ...

— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple

... him, not that he feared trouble, for they did not seem to resent either abuse or cudgeling in the least—and that in itself was food for thought; but broken shoulders are no use for carrying loads. ...

— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy

... loads,—tables, desks, chairs; then mountains of huge volumes; and at last two immense safes, as large as ...

— The Clique of Gold • Emile Gaboriau

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