load

A burden; a weight to be carried.

I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.

(figuratively)A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.

A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.

The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.

She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.

A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.

I put a load on before we left.

Đồng nghĩa: washload

(in compounds)(in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle

(colloquial, in plural, often)(often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.

I got loads of presents for my birthday!

I got a load of emails about that.

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The volume of work required to be performed.

Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?

(engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.

Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.

(electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.

I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.

(engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.

(electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.

Connect a second 24-ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.

A unit of measure for various quantities.

(transitive)To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

The dock workers refused to load the ship.

(transitive)To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.

The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.

He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.

(intransitive)To put a load on something.

The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.

(intransitive)To receive a load.

The truck is designed to load easily.

(intransitive)To be placed into storage or conveyance.

The containers load quickly and easily.

(transitive)To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.

I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.

(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.

Now that you've loaded the film [into the camera], you're ready to start shooting.

Now that you've loaded the camera [with film], you're ready to start shooting.

(transitive)To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.

The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.

(intransitive)To be put into use in an apparatus.

The cartridge was designed to load easily.

(transitive)(transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

Click OK to load the selected data.

(intransitive)(intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

The file took ten minutes to load.

This program takes an age to load.

(transitive)(transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases

He walks to load the bases.