Word Finder - loading

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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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The process by which something is loaded.

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The loading of hazardous cargoes is not permitted.

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A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted, or electrical current or power supplied.

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I need to recheck the loadings on the external walls.

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(industrial relations) A hourly pay rate given to a casual employee which is higher than the equivalent full-time or part-time employee's rate, usually paid to compensate for a lack of benefits such as sick leave or annual leave.

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A weighting or bias.

It's early morning now and the noise of the loading of the pack animals down at Ashenfelter's stables has woken me.

Loading it quickly, he watched the skunk from the house for a few minutes.

She kept her focus on the task of loading her plate, avoiding his gaze.

He heard the distant movement as attackers neared, the adjustment of the men's emplacement, even the loading of arrows and stretching of bows.

This can be done in inclined deposits, it can often be done by the aid of mechanical appliances, though sometimes at an expense not warranted in the saving in the labour of loading.

When eleven years old he was entered as a novice in the Norman monastery of St Evroul en Ouche, which Earl Roger had formerly persecuted but, in his later years, was loading with gifts.

He prepped bandages for her wrist, a bowl and washcloth, and a smaller version of the doc's med-gun, loading it with enough painkiller to knock her out.

For installation on a truck, the truck engine is used to drive the chipper hydraulic system including the fan blower and loading crane.

Single, central, canal loading arm in northern elevation, surmounted by a classical pediment.

A loading ramp can be fitted at the front.

Effects of oral creatine loading on single and repeated maximal short sprints.

The experiments involve loading and spreading glass gobs on flat metallic substrates.

At a photo stop a Caterpillar 990 loading shovel dwarfed the group, there being room for all in the bucket!

Loading is by concrete slipway, suitable at all states of the tide.

But instead of aerodynamic spoilers he's gone for four fast tape loading systems.

The researchers surmised that this was due to the greater levels of mechanical loading involved in gymnastics, as compared with running.

Sept 14 version - bug fix for tablature files Saved tablature files Saved tablature files sometimes crashed on loading.

Load Security 1. A bootlid, tailgate, loading door, hinged tailboard or dropside cannot be secured in the closed position.

Loading, reloading, and value loading are terms used to describe adding funds to the prepaid debit card.

The increased loading space required in the sheds is obtained by multiplying the number and the length of lines and platforms; sometimes also there are short sidings, cut into the platforms at right angles to the lines, in which wagons are placed by the aid of wagon turn-tables, and sometimes the wagons are dealt with on two floors, being raised or lowered bodily from the ground level by lifts.

For local services where stoppages are frequent the demand is for engines capable of quickly ' At the beginning of 1908 the Great Western's loading gauge on its main lines was widened to 9 ft.

Cars of this saloon type have been introduced into England for use on railways which have adopted electric traction, but owing to the narrower loading gauge of British railways it is not usually possible to seat four persons across the width of the car for its whole length, and at the ends the seats have to be placed along the sides of the vehicle.

Experience only can teach the art of packing wagons and the care of draught animals, and throughout the campaign the small ponies of Poland and East Prussia broke down by thousands from over loading and unskilful packing.

The docks are provided with gas and electric lights, 18 steam cranes for loading and discharging vessels, a triple line of railway and a supply of fresh water.

When the mineral is transported by rail or water to concentration or metallurgical works for treatment, or to near or distant markets for sale, provision must be made for the economical loading of railway wagons or vessels, and for the temporary storage of the mineral product.

Three rivers emptying into the bay - the San Juan, Canimar and Yumuri - have deposited much silt, necessitating the use of lighters in loading and unloading large ships.

In steeply inclined seams passes or shoots leading to the main level below are sometimes used, and in Belgium iron plates are sometimes laid in the excavated ground to form a slide for the coal down to the loading place.

In addition to this it is necessary to have an extra system of fixed guides at the surface and at the bottom, where it is necessary to keep the cage steady during the operations of loading and landing, there being a much greater amount of oscillation during the passage of the cage than with fixed guides.

The cage is then lifted by the engine clear of the keeps, which are opened by a lever worked by hand, and the empty tubs start on the return trip. When the cage has several decks, it is necessary to repeat this operation for each, unless there is a special provision made for loading and discharging the tubs at different levels.

Armstrong resigned his position in 1863, and for seventeen years the government adhered to the older method of loading, in spite of the improvements which experiment and research at Elswick and elsewhere had during that period produced in the mechanism and performance of heavy guns.

The suspension chains are constructed in the form of braced girders, so that they are stiff against unsymmetrical loading.

The digger cometh... Pressed straight into service, loading the ballast hopper.

The drying of the slurry is generally effected by the waste heat of the kilns, so that while one charge is burning another is drying ready for the next loading of the kilns.

In the case of very tall exposed buildings of small depth, the vertical load on the columns due to wind pressure in the opposite side of the building must be computed and allowed for, and in case the lower columns are without lateral support their bending moment must be sufficient to resist the lateral pressure due to wind and eccentricity of loading.

In computing the column sections a proper allowance must be made for any eccentricity of loading.

Hence the extreme importance in high dams with clay cores of loading the clay well for some time before water pressure is brought against it.

The specimens were bonded to the loading blocks using a room temperature two part epoxy adhesive.

There is also ancillary accommodation, dressing rooms and loading dock etc. attached to the main performance space.

It incorporates autoloading, namespace games, and dynamic loading of code that's in Perl, C, or both.

Invariably you will need to spend lots of time taking your computer back to absolute basics before loading up the new operating system.

Outside, at the loading bays, I then faced another trauma.

Loading John's body upon a small wagon, they head for the grand bazaar, on route for the citadel.

The module should have one externally callable function that does the work of loading up the file.

There were in addition twelve muzzle loading carbines per troop.

Corns and callus usually form in areas of high pressure or loading and require regular chiropody.

The headings are automatically opened when the page is loading and are then closed using JavaScript.

The loading and unloading curves do not exactly coincide.

Other than that, it's flawless down to the lovely presentation - even the animated loading screen is super cool!

The best strategy to achieve high muscle creatine stores is the implementation of a short loading phase.

This is normally commented out since most hosts default to loading a sendmail daemon.