Definitions for load

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load load

Spelling: [lohd]

IPA: /loʊd/

Load is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in load (adlo).

Definitions for load

noun

1. anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo:
2. the quantity that can be or usually is carried at one time, as in a cart.
3. this quantity taken as a unit of measure or weight or a discrete quantity (usually used in combination):
4. the quantity borne or sustained by something; burden:
5. the weight supported by a structure or part.
6. the amount of work assigned to or to be done by a person, team, department, machine, or mechanical system:
7. something that weighs down or oppresses like a burden; onus:
8. loads, Informal. a great quantity or number:
9. the charge for a firearm.
10. a commission charged to buyers of mutual-fund shares.
11. Engineering. any of the forces that a structure is calculated to oppose, comprising any unmoving and unvarying force (dead load) any load from wind or earthquake, and any other moving or temporary force (live load)
12. Electricity. the power delivered by a generator, motor, power station, or transformer. a device that receives power.
13. Mechanics. the external resistance overcome by an engine, dynamo, or the like, under given conditions, measured and expressed in terms of the power required.
14. Geology. the burden of sediment being carried by a stream or river. Compare bed load.
15. Slang. a sufficient amount of liquor drunk to cause intoxication:

Idioms

1. get a load of, Slang. to look at; notice; observe. to listen to with interest:
2. load the dice, to put someone or something in a advantageous or disadvantageous position; affect or influence the result:

adverb

1. loads, Informal. very much; a great deal:

verb (used with object)

1. to put a load on or in; fill:
2. to supply abundantly, lavishly, or excessively with something (often followed by down):
3. to weigh down, burden, or oppress (often followed by down, with, on, etc.):
4. to insert a charge, projectile, etc., into (a firearm).
5. to place (film, tape, etc.) into a camera or other device:
6. to place film, tape, etc., into (a camera or other device):
7. to take on as a load:
8. to add to the weight of, sometimes fraudulently:
9. Insurance. to increase (the net premium) by adding charges, as for expenses.
10. to add additional or prejudicial meaning to (a statement, question, etc.):
11. to overcharge (a word, expression, etc.) with extraneous values of emotion, sentiment, or the like:
12. to weight (dice) so that they will always come to rest with particular faces upward.
13. Baseball. to have or put runners at (first, second, and third bases):
14. Fine Arts. to place a large amount of pigment on (a brush). to apply a thick layer of pigment to (a canvas).
15. Metalworking. (of metal being deep-drawn) to become welded to (the drawing tool). (of material being ground) to fill the depressions in the surface of (a grinding wheel). (in powder metallurgy) to fill the cavity of (a die).
16. Computers. to bring (a program or data) into main storage from external or auxiliary storage. to place (an input/output medium) into an appropriate device, as by inserting a disk into a disk drive.
17. Electricity. to add (a power-absorbing device) to an electric circuit.

verb (used without object)

1. to put on or take on a load, as of passengers or goods:
2. to load a firearm.
3. to enter a carrier or conveyance (usually followed by into):
4. to become filled or occupied:

Origin of load

before 1000; Middle English lode (noun); orig. the same word as lode (Old English lād way, course, carrying); senses influenced by lade

Examples for load

When a big cache of weapons is inbound, rival outfits often gang together to disperse the load among their safe houses.

I am haunted by the thought that my car may break down when I have a load of wounded.

One of our chaps, taking in a load of wounded, was chased and pelted the other day.

He tells a few more drug stories, then walks to the closet and returns with a load of books.

Biden made many visits to Baghdad and no doubt get fed a load of bull about inclusion on each one.

A bunch of wrinkly old men trying to relive their youth and make a load of money.

Two of us were going in company, each with a load of cotton.

Merely to abstain from definition was like a load taken off my mind.

The iron loop at the end was to put one's foot into when one wanted to load it.

Today, the quaint spectacle of a stage-managed fairy-tale celebration strikes many of us as a load of garbage.