Word Finder - loads

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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.

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Lots, much, plenty, a great deal.

When crossing a desert camels are expected to carry their loads 25 m.

The substitution of steel for iron as the material for rails which made possible the axle loads and the speeds of Lto-day, and, by reducing the cost of maintenance, contributed enormously to the economic efficiency of railways, was one of the most important events in the history of railways, and a scarcely less important element of progressive economy has been the continued improvement of the steel rail in stiffness of section and in toughness and hardness of material.

In the first case all the driving is done on one or at most two axles, sufficient tractive force being obtained by coupling these axles when necessary to others carrying heavy loads.

It has many advantages for heavy high-speed service, namely, large and well-proportioned boiler, practically unlimited grate area, fire-box of favourable proportions for firing, fairly low centre of gravity, short coupling-rods, and, finally, a combination of the safe and smooth riding qualities of the fourcoupled bogie type, with great steaming capacity and moderate axle loads.

There is excellent fishing for salmon and trout, and in summer coaches leave their daily loads of tourists here.

Then the position of the loads must be that which satisfies the condition greater than less than an Wi+W2+ ..

The total moment at WI, due to three loads, is the sum mC-Fmn--Emo of the intercepts which the triangle sides cut off from the vertical under W 1.

As the loads move over the girder, the points C, D, E describe the parabolas M1, M2, M3 i the middle ordinates of which are 4W 1 1, 4W 2 1, and 4W3l.

If these are first drawn it is easy, for any position of the loads, to draw the lines B'C, B'D, B'E, and to find the sum of the intercepts which is the total bending moment under a load.

Till W 1 has advanced a distance a only one load is on the girder, and the curve A"F gives bending moments due to W 1 only; as W1 advances to a distance a+b, two loads are on the girder, and the curve FG gives moments due to W 1 and W2.

The three lightly W2 dotted parabolas are the curves of maximum moment for each of the loads taken separately.

The three heavily dotted curves are curves of maximum moment under each of the loads, for the three loads passing over the bridge, at the given distances, from left to right.

The heavy continuous line gives the last-mentioned curve for the reverse direction of passage of the loads.

With short bridges it is best to draw the curve of maximum bending moments for some assumed typical set of loads in the way just described, and to design the girder accordingly.

But very great accuracy in drawing this curve is unnecessary, because the rolling stock of railways varies so much that the precise magnitude and distribution of the loads which will pass over a bridge cannot be known.

All that can be done is to assume a set of loads likely to produce somewhat severer straining than any probable actual rolling loads.

Now, except for very short bridges and very unequal loads, a parabola can be found which includes the curve of maximum moments.

Waddell has calculated tables of such equivalent uniform loads.

A criterion already given shows the position of any set of loads which will produce the greatest bending moment at the centre of the bridge, or at one-quarter span.

Then the moment at C due to all the loads is M = Ply1+ P 2y2+ .

The position of the loads which gives the greatest moment at C may be settled by the criterion given above.

The loads at D', E, due to unit weight on the rail girder are (p-n)/p and n/p. The reaction at B' is {(p- n)xi+n(xi+p)}' /pi.

C. Lea, dealing with the determination of stress due to concentrated loads, by the method of influence lines will be found in Proc. Inst.

For the application of this method to a series of loads Prof. Eddy's paper must be referred to.

The sum of the two upward vertical reactions must clearly be equal to the sum of the loads.

The loads and the supporting forces are indicated by arrows.

The reciprocal figure for any loaded frame is a complete formula for the stress on every member of a frame of that particular class with loads on given joints.

From the palaces and retinues of thousands of servants attached to the royal service may be inferred at once the despotic power of the Mexican rulers and the heavy taxation of the people; in fact some of the most remarkable of the picture-writings are tribute-rolls enumerating by hundreds and thousands the mantles, ocelot-skins, bags of gold-dust, bronze hatchets, loads of chocolate, &c., furnished periodically by the towns.

General Pelham Burn said that he saw loot in Hodson's boxes when he accompanied him from Fatehgarh to take part in the siege of Lucknow, and Sir Henry Daly said that he found "loads of loot" in Hodson's boxes after his death, and also a file of documents relating to the Guides case, which had been stolen from him and of which Hodson denied all knowledge.

The fact that a comparatively brittle material like concrete can be subjected not only to heavy loads but also to the jar and vibration from the blows of a heavy pile ram makes it appear as if its nature and properties had been changed by the steel reinforcement.

The reasons were not understood until the researches of Wailer demonstrated the difference between the effects of merely dead loads and of live loads, and between repetitions of stress of one kind only, and the vastly more destructive effects of both kinds alternating.

The large and handsome oxen of Gujarat in Bombay and of Hariana in the Punjab are excellently adapted for drawing heavy loads in a sandy soil.

These Losses Were As Far As Possible Eliminated By Combining The Trials In Pairs, With Differ Ent Loads On The Brake, Assuming That The Heat Loss Would Be The Same In The Heavy And Light Trials, Provided That The External Temperature And The Gradient In The Shaft, As Estimated From The Temperature Of The Bearings, Were The Same.

Thus ii AB, BC, CD represent the given loads, in the force-diagram, we construct the sides corresponding to OA, OB, OC, OD in the funicular; we then draw the closing line of the funicular polygon, and a parallel OE to it in the force diagram.

For instance, in the case 01 a beam in equilibrium under any given loads and the reactionf at the supports, we get a graphical representation of the distributior of bending moment over the beam.

Principle of Least Resistance.Where more than one system of resistances are alike capable of balancing the same system of loads applied to a given structure, the smallest of those alternative systems, as waS demonstrated by the Rev. Henry Moseley in his Mechanics of Engineering and Architecture, is that which will actually be exerted but are distinguished by an asterisk.

Relations between Polygons of Loads and of Resistances.In a structure in which each piece is supported at two joints only, the well-known laws of statics show that the directions of the gross load on each piece and of the two resistances by which it is supported must lie in one plane, must either be parallel or meet in one point, and must bear to each other, if not parallel, the proportions of the sides of a triangle respectively parallel to their directions, and, if parallel, such proportions that each of the three forces shall be proportional to the distance between the other two,all the three distances being measured along one direction.

One of the most beautiful graphical constructions regularly used by engineers and known as the method of reciprocal figures is that for finding the loads supported by the several members of a braced structure, having given a system of external loads.

By constructing several partial polygons, and computing the relations between the loads and resistances which are determined by the application of that theorem to each of them, with the aid, if necessary, of Moseleys principle of the least resistance, the whole of the relations amongst the loads and resistances may be found.

The line of resistance is a line traversing all the centres of resistance of a series of joints,its form, in the positions intermediate between the actual joints of the structure, being determined by supposing the pieces and their loads to be subdivided by the introduction of intermediate joints ad snfinstum, and finding the continuous line, curved or straight, in which the intermediate centres of resistance are all situated, however great their number.

Stability of Position, and Stability of Frictio-n.The resistances at the several joints having been determined by the principles set forth in 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, not only under the ordinary load of the structure, but under all the variations to which the load is subject as to amount and distribution, the joints are now to be placed and shaped so that the pieces shall not suffer relative displacement under any of those loads.

Conditions of Stiffness and Strength.After the arrangement of the pieces of a structure and the size and figure of their joints or surfaces of contact have been determined so as to fulfil the conditions of stabilityconditions which depend mainly on the position and direction of the resultant or total load on each piece, and the relative magnitude of the loads on the different piecesthe dimensions of each piece singly have to be adjusted so as to fulfil the conditions of stiffness and strengthconditions which depend not only on the absolute magnitude of the load on each piece, and of the resistances by which it is balanced, but also on the mode of distribution of the load over the piece, and of the resistances over the joints.

What load is required at the pointy to maintain the configuration shown, both loads being supposed to act vertically?

The British resident estimated in 1904 that at least 3000 loads of British cotton goods, which he valued at 5 a load, were imported.

On their return trip the wagons often brought loads of wool, fur and blankets.

As freighters for the Hudson's Bay Company many of these settlers made, with their ox or pony carts, the long journey over the natural prairie roads to Fort Garry, fording or swimming the streams, carrying furs for a thousand miles or more on the eastern trip, and returning brought loads of merchandise for the company.

The revenue is derived from tolls levied on animals passing with loads.

Under its Turkish name of Behram, Assus is still the commercial port of the southern Troad, being the place to which loads of valonia are conveyed by camels from all parts of the country.

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.

In transferring the loads from the column bases to the bottom of the footings the greatest care must be taken in all systems of construction that the stresses throughout at no point exceed the safe limits of stress for the various materials used.