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load
has definitions from the fields of business,physics,electricity,military,geology,transportation
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[ noun ] weight to be borne or conveyed
Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Keegan , a 6 - foot - 3 - inch 158 - pounder , gave_up the Orioles ' last two safeties over the final three frames , escaping a load of trouble in the ninth when the Birds threatened but failed to tally . (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)Still Andrena will do a reasonably good job , so that an animal with a full pollen load looks_like a gay little piece of yellow down floating in the wind . (Ross E. McKinney and Howard Edde, "Aerated...)This operation would permit evaluation of the pilot plant , with a slowly increasing load , over a reasonable period_of_time . The data indicated that the organic load during the 6 - hr composites was essentially 50 per_cent of the 24 - hr organic load . The data indicated that the organic load during the 6 - hr composites was essentially 50 per_cent of the 24 - hr organic load . |
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[ verb ] fill or place a load on
Examples "load a car" "load the truck with hay" Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Thus he wired J._P._Lower_and_Sons of Denver : `` Have you any percussion hand_grenades for throwing in a house or across a well loaded with balls or shrapnel shot ? (Howard Fast, April Morning....)My Cousin_Simmons carried a musket , but he had loaded it with bird_shot , and as the officer came opposite him , he rose_up behind the wall and fired . (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)They went downstairs , loaded a tray lavishly . |
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[ noun ] (transportation) a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
Synonyms Examples "the system broke down under excessive loads" Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O_'_Banion gang 's seizure from a West_Side marshalling_yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $ 100000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition_era - the Sibley warehouse robbery , which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation . (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)If a child watched its progress he whispered , `` Hay , hay , load of hay - make a wish and turn_away '' , and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses ' feet returned no_more . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (business) goods carried by a large vehicle
Used in print (Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)She glanced around the clearing , taking_in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground , the two kids , the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight . Related terms |
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[ verb ] fill by packing tightly
Synonyms Examples "stow the cart" Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)With these completed and ice gone from the St._Peter's_River ( present-day Minnesota river ) their 250 bushels of wheat , 100 bushels of oats and barley and 30 bushels of peas and some chickens were loaded onto the flat-bottomed boats and rowed up the river to Big_Stone_Lake , across into Lake_Traverse , and down the Red . |
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[ noun ] (informal) an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
Examples "he got a load on and started a brawl" Used in print (Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)`` We know Penny spent some - and Carmer must have dropped a_few dollars getting that load on '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] place a load on
Examples "Load the cart with apples" Used in print (Don Francisco, "Formulas and Math Every Hot Rodder...)A tire must be inflated to its normal hot operating pressure and the car must be loaded to its operating weight when this measurement is made . |
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[ noun ] an onerous or difficult concern
Synonyms Examples "the burden of responsibility" "that's a load off my mind" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (physics) the power output of a generator or power plant
Used in print (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)At 100 Amp the 360 cycle ripple was less_than 0.5 V ( peak to peak ) with a resistive load . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (military) the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
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[ noun ] (geology) a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
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[ noun ] (physics,electricity) electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
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