Word Finder - load

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A burden; a weight to be carried.

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I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.

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A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.

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A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.

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She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.

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A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.

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I put a load on before we left.

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(in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle

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(often in the plural) A large number or amount.

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I got a load of emails about that.

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The volume of work required to be performed.

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Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?

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The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.

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Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.

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The electrical current or power delivered by a device.

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I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.

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A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.

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Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.

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Connect a second 24-ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.

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A unit of measure for various quantities.

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The viral load

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A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.

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The charge of powder for a firearm.

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Weight or violence of blows.

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The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.

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Nonsense; rubbish.

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What a load!

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The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.

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All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.

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To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

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The dock workers refused to load the ship.

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To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.

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He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.

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To put a load on something.

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The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.

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To receive a load.

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The truck is designed to load easily.

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To be placed into storage or conveyance.

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The containers load quickly and easily.

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To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.

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I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.

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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.

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Now that you've loaded the camera [with film], you're ready to start shooting.

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To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.

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The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.

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To be put into use in an apparatus.

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The cartridge was designed to load easily.

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To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

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Click OK to load the selected data.

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To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

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This program takes an age to load.

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To put runners on first, second and third bases

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He walks to load the bases.

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To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.

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The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.

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To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.

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To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.

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The new owners had loaded the company with debt.

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To provide in abundance.

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He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.

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To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.

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To adulterate or drug.

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to load wine

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To magnetize.

Wait until Fred gets a load of this!

It was like having a heavy load lifted from her shoulders.

Sofia pulled over to the side of the road to await the text and load the address into the car's GPS.

One day in midsummer, when I was hoeing, a man who was carrying a load of pottery to market stopped his horse against my field and inquired concerning Wyman the younger.

The cedar tree was bent over with the weight of a heavy load of wet snow.

I'm glad you find my character flaws amusing, 'cuz I have a boat load of them.

Sorting the clothes, she put a load in the washer and started it.

Hand cranes are extremely useful where the load is not excessive, and the quantities to be dealt with are not motive powers.

A load contains 36 trusses.

In the first the load can be lifted vertically, and then moved round a central pivot, so as to be deposited at any convenient point within the range.

In electric cranes a useful method is to arrange the connexions so that the lifting motor acts as a dynamo, and, driven by the energy of the falling load, generates a current which is converted into heat by being passed through resistances.

The actual load factor to be chosen depends on the nature of the work and the kind of crane.

Transporters can only move the load to any point on a vertical surface (generally a plane surface); they have a lifting Trans- motion and a movement of translation.

In order that only one motor may be used, and also that the load may be lifted by a single part of rope, various devices have been invented.

It is almost no effort for me to row around the lake, no matter how heavy the load may be.

The gunman rested back on his heels to load a new laser charge pack.

In the time that I've been here, it looks to me like you carry your share of the load – sometimes more.

This is effected by slinging the load to an eye or Lifting hook, and elevating the hook vertically.

That the quantity of heat to be got rid of may become very considerable is seen when it is considered that the energy of a load of 60 tons descending through 50 ft.

A dock-side crane unloading cargo with high lifts following one another in rapid succession will require a higher load factor than a workshop traveller with a very short lift and only a very occasional maximum load; and a traveller with a very long longitudinal travel will require a higher load factor for the travelling motor than for the lifting motor.

In the latter case the overturning tendency begins as soon as the load leaves the ground, but ceases as soon as the load again touches the ground and thus relieves the crane of the extra weight, whereas overturning backwards is caused either by the reaction of a chain breaking or by excessive counterweight.

The Titan was the first type of large portable crane in which full use was made of a truly horizontal movement of the load; for the purpose for which the type is designed, viz.

Vessels go to Porman to land coke and coal, and to load iron ore and lead.

At its opening, on the 27th of September 1825, a train of thirtyfour vehicles, making a gross load of about go tons, was drawn by one engine driven by Stephenson, with a signalman on horseback in advance..

In practice the gradient should not exceed i in 221, and even that is too steep, since theoretical conditions cannot always be realized; a wet rail will reduce the adhesion, and the gradients must be such that some paying load can be hauled in all weathers.

Blenkinsop placed the teeth on the outer side of one of the running rails, and his reason for adopting a rack was the belief that an engine with smooth wheels running on smooth rails would not have sufficient adhesion to draw the load required.

Such an arrangement would be ideally perfect from the point of view of the permanent-way engineer, because it would then be possible to distribute the whole of the load uniformly between the wheels.

Thus an engine working at maximum power may be used to haul a relatively light load at a high speed or a heavy load at a slow speed.

A second time it tried to carry its load up the rough trunk of the tree, and a second time it failed.

I think that the man is at a dead set who has got through a knot-hole or gateway where his sledge load of furniture cannot follow him.

It worked, but it stopped a foot short of her floor, which made her load even more precarious.

Strictly speaking, the name alludes to the arm or jib from which the load to be moved is suspended, but it is now used in a wider sense to include the whole mechanism by which a load is raised vertically and moved horizontally.

The derrick crane introduces a problem for which many solutions have been sought, that of preventing the load from being lifted or lowered when the jib is pivoted up or down to alter the radius.

On arriving at a certain height the lift ceases and the jenny is released, and by the continued pull of the rope, it runs up the jib; on arriving at an adjustable stop, the jenny is again locked, and the load can be lowered out; the hook can then be raised, when the jenny is automatically unlocked, and on paying out the rope the jenny gravitates to its first position, when the load is lowered and the cycle repeated.

The varying load against which a locomotive works, and the fact that a locomotive is non-condensing, are factors which reduce the margin of possible economy within narrow limits.

Locomotives have to start with the full load on the engine, consequently an outstanding feature of every compound locomotive is the apparatus or mechanism added to enable the engine to start readily.

It's imperative that you don't downgrade on a tire's speed rating or its load capacity.

It will accept any type of strain gage based load cell.

This lower load impedance being presented to the inverter causes more power to be sourced from the inverter.

Each load looks as if it contained the contents of a dozen shanties; and if one shanty is poor, this is a dozen times as poor.

As soon as Rostov heard them, an enormous load of doubt fell from him.

The gondola or flat car corresponds to the European open wagons and is used to carry goods not liable to be injured by the weather; but in the United States the practice of covering the load with tarpaulins is unknown, and therefore the proportion of box cars is much greater than in Europe.

The long hauls in the United States make it specially important that the cars should carry a load in both directions, and so bcx cars which have carried grain or merchandise one way are filled with wool, coal, coke, ore, timber and other coarse articles for the return journey.

An ordinary British 10-ton wagon often weighs about 6 tons empty, and rarely much less than 5 tons; that is, the ratio of its possible paying load to its tare weight is at the best about 2 to 1.

It will be seen that the girder directly rests on a cylindrical pin or rocker so placed as to distribute the load uniformly to all the rollers.

The frictional grip between the two surfaces prevents return motion of the worm shaft and the load remains suspended, but it may be lowered by turning the hand-wheel so as to overcome the friction brake.

Various other arrangements of friction brakes have been devised to give a resistance proportional to the load.

There is extensive quayage, and the largest wool ships are able to load alongside the wharves, which are connected by rail with all parts of the colony.

When they are weary they lie down upon the ground, and as there are no means of making them get up, either by beating or assisting them, the load must of necessity be taken off.

The further development of the honey extractor has of late been limited to an increase in the size of machine used, in order to save time and manual labour, and thus meet the requirements of the largest honey producers, who extract honey by the car load.