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load English

Meaning load meaning

What does load mean?
Definitions in simple English

load Noun

— A load is something carried, often something heavy. The truck arrived with a load of dog food. You've got quite a load. Let me help you carry it. The ship won't leave until it has a full load of oil. — Loads/a load of something is a lot of it. We've had a load of problems ever since we got the new stuff. It costs loads of money. — Your load is how much work you have. We hired another person to spread the load a bit more. Teachers are asking for a lower teaching load. — Load is the amount electrical power produced.

load Verb

— If you load mathx/math on mathy/math, you put mathx/math on mathy/math to be carried. Usually there is a lot of mathx/math, and/or it is heavy. We loaded the boxes on the truck and set off for Vancouver. After loading up the horses, we got on and headed north. The waiter loaded all the food onto a tray and carried it out. — If you load a machine, you put in supplies that the machine uses. He loaded the gun, brought it up, and shot the deer in one continuous motion. All the software has been loaded onto the computer.

load

— noun weight to be borne or conveyed — verb fill or place a load on load a car load the truck with hay — verb provide (a device) with something necessary He loaded his gun carefully load the camera — noun (= loading) a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time the system broke down under excessive loads — noun (= cargo) goods carried by a large vehicle — 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 (= burden) an onerous or difficult concern the burden of responsibility that's a load off my mind — noun electrical device to which electrical power is delivered — verb (= adulterate, debase) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones adulterate liquor — verb put (something) on a structure or conveyance load the bags onto the trucks — verb transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory — noun (= lode) a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks — noun (= warhead) 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 load synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as load?

load English » English

burden weight charge cargo pack loading freight fill lade fill up carry lading encumbrance bundle pile heap up heap shipment onus stack ship prime payload load up weigh down stuff responsibility pressure luggage lode laden burthen baggage weight down warhead wagonload waggonload take on cargo take on board stretch ready put goods on put prepare for shooting package overwhelm millstone lorry load ladle incumbrance

Topics load topics

What do people use load to talk about?
States Quantity

Full
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Physical actions Move something

Carry
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Put in
Physical actions Move something

Transport

  • What words refer to putting something in a vehicle?
    load
Physical actions Arrange

Gather
Physical actions Arrange Put

Load, pile
States

Quantity

  • What words refer to a measured amount of something?
    quota load
States Quantity Plural

Group of things
States Big

Weigh
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Relief
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Prompters of attention

Conjugation load conjugation

How do you conjugate load?

load · verb

Examples load examples

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Simple sentences

The news was a load off his mind.
What a load of rubbish!
It took a load off my mind that I finally found you!
Rarely have I heard such a load of rubbish.
We didn't know the box had holes in it. We lost half of the load along the way.
It was load off my mind.
You don't know how heavy is the load you don't bear.
We ate a whole load of apples.
Our servers are currently experiencing heavy load.
This mule can't carry a heavier load.
We have to lighten the load.
It took Tom an hour to load everything on the truck.
The truck carried a load of furniture.
The lorry had to stop because its load had fallen off.
Tom told me to load my pistol.
The box fell apart due to the weight of the load.
I hate infinite scrolling, because I strongly believe that users should have a right to choose whether they want to load the next page or not.
Today I hooked my trailer up to my car, filled it with rubbish and took a very full load to the local rubbish dump.
Why is this website taking so long to load?
That's a real load off my mind.
The young man helped the old lady load the groceries into her car.
Tom helped Mary load the truck.

Movie subtitles

Okay, any minute now, my wife will come out of that grocery store, go to load her groceries and find a dead body in the.
But when he heard something that displeased him, he climbed on top of the load they carried, pointed his nose skyward, and howled.
I'm j ust an old load of hay.
How do you load that?
What load of rot!
Sit down, take a load off your feet.
Load those guns.
You load them.
Get a load of yourself.
Get a load of the juvenile.
What a show. Hey, skipper, come here and get a load of this.
I'd like to get a load of that three ring circus you're pulling.
Baby, wait till you get a load of this.
Let's get a load of this Dempsey-Firpo binge, shall we?
It's a heavy load, but I'll do what I can.
And get a load of this, if you come in again at 3:00 a. m..
I'm just an old load of hay.
Hey, skipper, come here and get a load of this.
Let's load them in the cannon!
They load it on the elephants and take it back with them.
Load up the tusks.
Set ashore on a deserted isle. and there left with a bottle of water, a loaf of bread. and a pistol with one load.
Come over here and get a load of this.
Get a load of Buck, will you?
Well, I guess we'll have to ride over to Glover's farm and get another load of coal.
We've gotta get a load of that guy.
Get a load of this.
I'd like to get a load of that three-ring circus you're pulling.
Don't load anymore.
You've taken a great load off my mind.
What a load off my mind!
Every time he'd come into town with a new load of stock. he'd rush right into the first saloon.
The stage is going out tomorrow instead of Monday with a load of silver.
You've carried the load for all of us.

News and current affairs

This debt almost surely needs to be restructured, but, having allowed the banks to leverage themselves beyond any level of prudence and load up on toxic derivatives, the ECB is now warning against any sort of restructuring or write-down.
First, it means shifting demand back to the private sector when it is strong enough to carry the load.
The challenge, then, is to reduce our current reliance on fossil and nuclear fuels for base-load power.
The first approach may maximize the traffic load that can be carried safely, but it fails to take most people where they want to go and is ultimately self-defeating.
Unfortunately, when it comes to the environment, Europe's have-nots are being told to carry the load by themselves.
The chance of a military incident involving China and one of its neighbors - be it Japan, the Philippines, or Vietnam - cannot be ignored, and it remains to be seen whether the region's diplomatic circuits can carry the load.
Other children load and transport items in the markets, where they must pull carts weighing 60-70 kilograms and carry boxes weighing 15 kilograms in temperatures of 50 degrees centigrade.
As debt mounts and the recession lingers, we are surely going to see a number of governments trying to lighten their load through financial repression, higher inflation, partial default, or a combinations of all three.
The campaign to forgive Africa's debt was, on the other hand, focused on the crushing debt load owed by African countries to the IMF and the World Bank, who only have money to worry about.
With power stations now being built, the signs are bright for widespread use of geothermal energy to generate clean, emissions-free base-load power.
It is the inevitable formula for recovery - one shovel load at a time.
Yet the banks continued to load up on the government bonds of the weaker countries in order to benefit from the minuscule interest-rate differentials that still remained.
Computers and robotic cranes that schedule and move containers around and load ships now control the Port of Singapore, one of the most efficient in the world.
That leaves exports - goods and services sold to the global economy's growth regions (mostly the emerging economies) - to carry the load.

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