Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word LOAD

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Definitions of LOAD

1. A burden; a weight to be carried.
2. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
3. A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
4. The volume of work required to be performed.
5. A unit of measure for various quantities.
6. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
7. The charge of powder for a firearm.
8. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
9. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
10. (often, in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
11. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
12. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
13. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
14. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
15. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
16. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
17. (euphemism) Nonsense; rubbish.
18. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
19. (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
20. (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
21. (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
22. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
23. (intransitive) To receive a load.
24. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
25. (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
26. (transitive) 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.
27. (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
28. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
29. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
30. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
31. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
32. (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
33. (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
34. (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
35. (transitive) To provide in abundance.
36. (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
37. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
38. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.
39. (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
40. (Internet slang, obsolete) A person that spends all day online. The term was originally used in the late 1980s to describe users on free Q-Link (later America Online) accounts who never signed off the system at great expense to the company.
41. Short for viral load.
42. (vulgar, slang) defecation

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Examples of Using LOAD in a Sentence

• Usually mouthwashes are antiseptic solutions intended to reduce the microbial load in the mouth, although other mouthwashes might be given for other reasons such as for their analgesic, anti-inflammatory or anti-fungal action.
• The term was retroactively coined in contrast to reduced instruction set computer (RISC) and has therefore become something of an umbrella term for everything that is not RISC, where the typical differentiating characteristic is that most RISC designs use uniform instruction length for almost all instructions, and employ strictly separate load and store instructions.
• The erlang (symbol E) is a dimensionless unit that is used in telephony as a measure of offered load or carried load on service-providing elements such as telephone circuits or telephone switching equipment.
• Plasticity (physics), in engineering and physics, the propensity of a solid material to undergo permanent deformation under load.
• The machine can increase the amount of the output force, at the cost of a proportional decrease in the distance moved by the load.
• Wheels, in conjunction with axles, allow heavy objects to be moved easily facilitating movement or transportation while supporting a load, or performing labor in machines.
• It has the virtues of being both easy to tie and untie; most notably, it is easy to untie after being subjected to a load.
• An inclined plane, also known as a ramp, is a flat supporting surface tilted at an angle from the vertical direction, with one end higher than the other, used as an aid for raising or lowering a load.
• A wall is a structure and a surface that defines an area; carries a load; provides security, shelter, or soundproofing; or, is decorative.
• An offline unit provides electrical isolation between the primary power source and the critical technical load whereas an online unit does not.
• After it is switched on, a computer's central processing unit (CPU) has no software in its main memory, so some process must load software into memory before it can be executed.
• A device that connects a number of links with only one destination, the main function of this device is to make a kind of load balancing between two or more servers connected together, data distribution is done according to the server processing rate.
• If a residence has equipment which could draw 6,000 W when all equipment was drawing a full load, drew a maximum of 3,000 W in a specified time, then the demand factor = 3,000 W / 6,000 W = 0.
• The demand load is the sum of the operational load (including any tactical load) and nonoperational demand loads.
• In metallic lines, they may be supported by impedance mismatches between the source or load and the characteristic impedance of the transmission medium.
• A loading coil or load coil is an inductor that is inserted into an electronic circuit to increase its inductance.
• In electronics, the long-term stability of an oscillator is the degree of uniformity of frequency over time, when the frequency is measured under identical environmental conditions, such as supply voltage, load, and temperature.
• In electrical engineering, the power factor of an AC power system is defined as the ratio of the real power absorbed by the load to the apparent power flowing in the circuit.
• This discontinuity can be caused by a mismatch between the termination or load connected to the line and the characteristic impedance of the line.
• An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) or uninterruptible power source is a type of continual power system that provides automated backup electric power to a load when the input power source or mains power fails.

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