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load
- pronunciation:
- lod
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
an amount of something carried; cargo or freight.
The train carried its load of coal through the valley.- synonyms:
- cargo, contents, freight, lading, shipment
- similar words:
- goods, merchandise
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| definition 2: |
the usual or customary amount carried or put into something.
They delivered a load of hay this morning.- synonyms:
- boatload, carload, shipload, shipment, wagonload
- similar words:
- payload
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| definition 3: |
a heavy burden or responsibility, or a large amount of work to be done.
Caring for her ailing mother had been a heavy load.I have a load of work to accomplish before Friday.- synonyms:
- burden, chore, millstone, onus, tax
- antonyms:
- sinecure
- similar words:
- charge, cross, duty, encumbrance, freight, obligation, responsibility, stack, strain, weight
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| definition 4: |
in engineering, resistance to mechanical operation.
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| definition 5: |
the output of an electric generating plant.
- synonyms:
- output
- similar words:
- production
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| related words: |
content, freight, mass, mine, misery, mountain |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
loaded, loading, loads |
| definition 1: |
to put (goods) on a ship, train, truck or other vehicle in order to transport.
They loaded the freight onto the ship.We loaded our furniture into the truck.
- synonyms:
- fill, heap, lade, pack, weight
- antonyms:
- unlade, unload
- similar words:
- burden, cumber, pile, sack, stack, stuff
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| definition 2: |
to fill with something, often to capacity.
I loaded the washing machine.The police officer loaded his gun.He loaded himself with whiskey.- synonyms:
- freight
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| definition 3: |
to place (a thing or things) into an apparatus.
The photographer loaded fresh film into the camera.- antonyms:
- discharge, unload
- similar words:
- charge, refill
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| definition 4: |
to provide things to in abundance.
She loaded me with presents.- synonyms:
- flood, overload, oversupply, overwhelm, swamp, weight
- similar words:
- burden, cumber, glut, provide, supply
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| definition 5: |
to distort by prejudice, for the purpose of gaining what one wants.
He loaded the question.- synonyms:
- weight
- similar words:
- fix, pack, rig, slant, stack, stuff
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| related words: |
fill, freight, heap, line, overwhelm, weight |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to put goods on or in a structure, container, or conveyance.
- synonyms:
- pack
- antonyms:
- discharge, unlade, unload
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| definition 2: |
to enter a vehicle of transport.
The passengers are now loading.- synonyms:
- board, embark
- similar words:
- enter, mount
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| definition 3: |
to put ammunition into firearms.
- antonyms:
- unload
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| definition 4: |
to take on or eat a great deal of something (usu. fol. by up).
He loaded up with ice cream.- synonyms:
- fill
- similar words:
- cram, glut, gorge, overeat, stuff
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Are you looking for the word lode (a mineral deposit)? Load and lode sound alike but have different meanings.
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