Word Finder - loaded

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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.

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Burdened by some heavy load; packed.

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Let's leave the TV; the car is loaded already.

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• crammed
• laden
• packed
• stuffed

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(of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.

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No funny business; this heater's loaded!

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• armed
• primed

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Possessing great wealth.

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He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded.

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Drunk.

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By the end of the evening, the guests in the club were really loaded.

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Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.

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It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs.

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(also used figuratively) a die or dice being weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.

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He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.

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• fixed
• rigged
• weighted

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(of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.

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That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.

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• leading

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(of a word or phrase) Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.

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"Ignorant" is a loaded word, often implying lack of intelligence rather than just lack of knowledge.

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• charged
• freighted
• pregnant

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(of an item offered for sale, especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options.

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She went all out; her new car is loaded.

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• deluxe

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Covered with a topping or toppings.

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loaded fries

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Weighted with lead or similar.

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a loaded cane or whip

These ships were loaded with corn.

It was a loaded statement.

The old woman had loaded it for her.

Even the crossbow she'd used the other night was clean and perched where she'd found it, loaded once again.

Alex collected their luggage and had it loaded in the car.

She changed quickly out of her sleepwear and loaded her body down with weapons then drew a knife and her gun.

Back in the kitchen, she loaded the dishwasher and put away leftovers.

It was a loaded question by a woman capable of manipulating a situation to her advantage.

Maybe he wondered as well - maybe he considered it a loaded subject.

Aaron isn't loaded, but he isn't hurting, either.

The sun was casting its last orange rays into the sky when they all loaded onto the wagon and headed into the field.

A locomotive depot further includes stores of the various materials required in working the engines, coal stages at which they are loaded with coal, and an ample supply of water.

The minimum grade is that which will enable the loaded cars in travelling down the plane to pull up the empty cars.

Why would you carry a gun that's not loaded?

I never heard he got loaded.

The smaller airport was a welcome relief from the Philadelphia crowds and the large jet was loaded quickly.

He thought she was loaded.

When Lord Exmouth was about to bombard the city in 1816, the British consul was thrown into prison and loaded with chains.

It is generally convenient to keep the inwards and the outwards traffic distinct and to deal with the two classes separately; at junction stations it may also be necessary to provide for the transfer of freight from one wagon to another, though the bulk of goods traffic is conveyed through to its destination in the wagons into which it was originally loaded.

On this account it is common to put small end doors, in American box cars, through which timber and rails may be loaded.

A still more serious blow was the destruction of the relief army which Levenhaupt was bringing to Charles from Livonia, and which, hampered by hundreds of loaded wagons, was overtaken and almost destroyed by Peter at Lyesna after a two days' battle against fourfold odds (October).

Romanus was taken prisoner and conducted into the presence of Alp Arslan, who treated him with generosity, and terms of peace having been agreed to, dismissed him, loaded with presents and respectfully attended by a military guard.

In America, crude petroleum was at first transported in iron-hooped barrels, holding from 40 to 42 American gallons, which were carried by teamsters to Oil Creek and the Allegheny River, where they were loaded on boats, these being floated down stream whenever sufficient water was present - a method leading to much loss by collision and grounding.

Some of these timber bridges are said to have lasted ninety years with ordinary repairs, but they were road bridges not heavily loaded.

When loaded with either of the lightest two weights the instrument is specifically lighter than Sikes's hydrometer when unloaded, and it may thus be used for specific gravities as low as that of absolute alcohol.

In 1885 the total number of vessels that entered the port was 4281 of 1,434,000 tons; of these, 1251 of 750,000 tons were foreign; 688,000 tons of merchandise were loaded and unloaded.

He was loaded with the degrees of the universities and membership of numerous societies and academies.

Creak, and has been found to give satisfactory results on board ship. The circle is provided with two needles in addition to those used for determining the dip, one (a) an ordinary dip needle, and the other (b) a needle which has been loaded at one end by means of a small peg which fits into one of two symmetrically placed holes in the needle.

There is anchorage for steamers in 5 to 6 fathoms. Vessels were loaded and discharged by lighters from the beach.

The mere fact of the crusaders being placed under the special protection of the Church and the pope, and loaded with privileges, freed them from the jurisdiction, and even, up to a certain point, from the lordship of their natural masters, to become the almost direct subjects of the papacy; and the common law was then practically suspended for the benefit of the Church and the leader who represented it.

But, though illuminated by the rays of art, and loaded with the exuberant panegyrics of humanists and poets, the reign of the first Medicean pontiff, by its unbounded devotion to purely secular tendencies and its comparative neglect of the Church herself proved disastrous for the See of St Peter.

He was arbitrary and avaricious like his father, and moreover shocked public sentiment by his treatment of his wife, a popular Prussian princess, and his relations with his mistress, one Emilie Ortlopp, created countess of Reichenbach, whom he loaded with wealth.

Butler approached the fort on the 10th of December 1864; on the 24th the "Louisiana," loaded with 215 tons of powder, was exploded 400 yds.

The procedure is loaded with many formalities, of which the historical explanation lies in the tribunals of the ancient system, and which considerably delay the progress of the causes.

If the loaded rod is elastic its lower end may be fixed in a stand, and the spherically curved base w is no longer required.

Whatever may have occurr-ed, it was deemed politic to send Necho back loaded with honors and surrounded by a retinue of Assyrian officials.

A layer of dried slurry is loaded on this, then a layer of coke, then a layer of slurry, and so on until the kiln is filled with coke and slurry evenly distributed.

At the same time he received a number of the chief men of Medina, sent by the prefect, with great honour and loaded them with gifts and presents.

The latter loaded him with honours and made him governor of Khorasan, whence he directed several expeditions into Transoxiana.

His court was crowded with poets, whom he loaded with favours, even if they were Christians like Akhtal.

The chroniclers relate that on this occasion for the first time camels loaded with ice for the use of the caliph came to Mecca.

Loaded with all the burdens of government, Yahya, brought the most distinguished abilities to the exercise of his office.

If PQ be a short segment containing an isolated load W, we have FeFi.=W, MQ=MP; (3) hence F is discontinuous at a p concentrated load, diminishing by an amount equal to the load as we pass the loaded point to the right, whilst M is continuous.

This case has important practical applications; for instance we may use the method to find the pressures on the supports of a beam loaded in any given manner.

But in other cases the earth is to be treated as one of the pieces of the structure, loaded with a force equal and opposite in direction and position to the resultant of the weight of the structure and of the other pressures applied to it.

The interesting and important part of the investigation is that a number of experiments were made on small shafts arranged in different ways and loaded in different ways, and the speed at which whirling actually occurred was compared with the speed calculated from formulae of the general type indicated above.

He was almost immediately made the companion and trusted friend of its sovereign, loaded with honours, lodged in a fine house, enrolled among the nobles of the realm, enriched, and placed at the very height of social importance.

It is immensely diffuse and pretentious, loaded with digressions, its argument buried under masses of fantastic, uncritical learning, the work of a vigorous but quite unoriginal mind.

But even at this stage of his career the pessimism of his later writings began to manifest itself, together with a susceptibility to morbid fears which led him to keep loaded weapons always at his bedside.

It must not only be strong enough to sustain all possible vertical loads, but it must be sufficiently rigid to resist without deformation or weakening all lateral disturbing forces, the principal of which are the pressure of wind, the possible sway of moving crowds or moving machinery, and the vibration of the earth from the passage of loaded vans and trolleys, and slight earthquakes which at times visit almost all localities.