noun
- Weight to be borne or conveyed.
- A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time.
- usage: "the system broke down under excessive loads"
- synonyms: loading
- Goods carried by a large vehicle.
- An amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate.
- usage: "he got a load on and started a brawl"
- The power output of a generator or power plant.
- An onerous or difficult concern.
- usage: "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind"
- synonyms: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus
- A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks.
- synonyms: lode
- The front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents.
- Electrical device to which electrical power is delivered.
verb
- Fill or place a load on.
- usage: "load a car"; "load the truck with hay"
- Provide (a device) with something necessary.
- usage: "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera"
- synonyms: charge
- Transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory.
- Put (something) on a structure or conveyance.
- usage: "load the bags onto the trucks"
- Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones.
- usage: "adulterate liquor"
- synonyms: adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
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