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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.