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Definition load

Etymology

The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle English lode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old English l?d (“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laid? (“leading, way”), Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to go, go forth, die”), cognate with Middle Low German leide (“entourage, escort”), German Leite (“line, course, load”), Swedish led (“way, trail, line”), Icelandic leiđ (“way, course, route”)). As such, load is a doublet of lode, which has preserved the older meaning.

Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verb lade; however, Middle English lode occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verb load (“to charge with a load”) is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare), and (except for the participle laden) has largely supplanted lade in modern English.

Noun

load (plural loads)

  1. A burden; a weight to be carried.
  2. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
  3. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
  4. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
  5. (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
  6. The volume of work required to be performed.
  7. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
  8. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
  9. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
  10. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
  11. A unit of measure for various quantities.
  12. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
  13. The charge of powder for a firearm.
  14. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
  15. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
  16. (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
  17. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.

Verb

load (third-person singular simple present loads, present participle loading, simple past loaded, past participle loaded or (archaic) loaden)

  1. (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
  2. (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
  3. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
  4. (intransitive) To receive a load.
  5. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
  6. (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
  7. (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
  8. (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
  9. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
  10. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
  11. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
  12. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
  13. (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
  14. (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
  15. (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
  16. (transitive) To provide in abundance.
  17. (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
  18. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
  19. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.

Results 239 Words with the letters LOAD

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