What is the meaning of load?

noun

• Weight to be borne or conveyed.
  • synonyms: loading, burden
• 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.
  • synonyms: cargo, lading, freight, loading, payload, shipment, consignment
• 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.
  • synonyms: warhead, payload
• Electrical device to which electrical power is delivered.

verb

• Fill or place a load on.
  • usage: "load a car"; "load the truck with hay"
  • synonyms: lade, laden, load up
• 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