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: load
- The ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift.
- Goods carried by a large vehicle.
- The labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc..
- usage: "the loading took 2 hours"
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"
- Transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory.
- synonyms: load
- Put (something) on a structure or conveyance.
- usage: "load the bags onto the trucks"
- synonyms: load
- Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones.
- usage: "adulterate liquor"
- synonyms: load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
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