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1.nounA burden; a weight to be carried."I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack."
2.nounA worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
3.nounA certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time."She put another load of clothes in the washing machine."
4.nounA quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle."I put a load on before we left."
5.noun(in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
6.noun(often in the plural) A large number or amount."I got a load of emails about that."
7.nounThe volume of work required to be performed."Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?"
8.nounThe force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc."Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons."
9.nounThe electrical current or power delivered by a device."I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high."
10.nounA resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
11.nounAny component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit."Connect a second 24-ohm load across the power supply's output terminals."
12.nounA unit of measure for various quantities.
13.nounThe viral load
14.nounA very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
15.nounThe charge of powder for a firearm.
16.nounWeight or violence of blows.
17.nounThe contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
18.nounNonsense; rubbish."What a load!"
19.nounThe process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc."All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load."
20.verbTo put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage)."The dock workers refused to load the ship."
21.verbTo place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage."He loaded his stuff into his storage locker."
22.verbTo put a load on something."The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading."
23.verbTo receive a load."The truck is designed to load easily."
24.verbTo be placed into storage or conveyance."The containers load quickly and easily."
25.verbTo fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition."I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun."
26.verbTo 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."Now that you've loaded the camera [with film], you're ready to start shooting."
27.verbTo fill (an apparatus) with raw material."The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore."
28.verbTo be put into use in an apparatus."The cartridge was designed to load easily."
29.verbTo read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory."Click OK to load the selected data."
30.verbTo transfer from a storage medium into computer memory."This program takes an age to load."
31.verbTo put runners on first, second and third bases"He walks to load the bases."
32.verbTo tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome."The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate."
33.verbTo ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
34.verbTo encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance."The new owners had loaded the company with debt."
35.verbTo provide in abundance."He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon."
36.verbTo weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
37.verbTo adulterate or drug."to load wine"
38.verbTo magnetize.