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Load   /loʊd/   Listen
noun
Load  n.  
1.
A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load. "He might such a load To town with his ass carry."
2.
The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.
3.
That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care. " A... load of guilt." " Our life's a load."
4.
A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.
5.
The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.
6.
Weight or violence of blows. (Obs.)
7.
(Mach.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
8.
The amount of work that a person, group, or machine is assigned to perform; as, the boss distributed the load evenly among his employees.
9.
(Elec.) The device or devices that consume power from a power supply.
10.
(Engineering) The weight or force that a structural support bears or is designed to bear; the object that creates that force.
Load line, or Load water line (Naut.), the line on the outside of a vessel indicating the depth to which it sinks in the water when loaded.
Synonyms: Burden; lading; weight; cargo. See Burden.


verb
Load  v. t.  (past & past part. loaded; pres. part. loading)  
1.
To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon. "I strive all in vain to load the cart." "I have loaden me with many spoils." "Those honors deep and broad, wherewith Your majesty loads our house."
2.
To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine. (Cant)
3.
To magnetize. (Obs.)
Loaded dice, dice with one side made heavier than the others, so that the number on the opposite side will come up oftenest.





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"Load" Quotes from Famous Books



... country's trial, he affected a serenity he was far from feeling; so that his apparent gayety at momentous epochs was even censured by dullards, who could not comprehend its philosophy, nor applaud the flippancy of William the Silent. He went through life bearing the load of a people's sorrows with a smiling face."—Motley's Rise ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 • Various
... is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code. In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load. In the long, long night, by the lone firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring, Howled out their woes to the homeless snows — O God! how I ...
— The Spell of the Yukon • Robert Service
... unwillingly, were driven the Dutchman's fat steers and the beeves belonging to the cattleman. When a long train was filled with them, a wildcat engine backed down from the station, coupled on to the waiting freight, and went lumbering away with its hungry, thirsty load, bound for a ...
— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates
... store of this fish in the River Danubie, that Randelitius sayes, they may in some places of it, and in some months of the yeer, be taken by those that dwel neer to the River, with their hands, eight or ten load at a time; he sayes, they begin to be good in May, and that they cease to be so in August; but it is found to be otherwise in this Nation: but thus far we agree with him, that the Spawne of a Barbell is, if be not poison, ...
— The Complete Angler 1653 • Isaak Walton
... big load for the buckboard with Mormon and Sam in the back seat crowded by the piled-up baggage, with Sandy driving and Molly beside him, flushed a little with growing excitement. But the buckskins were sinewed with whalebone and used to desert work. They surged forward at ...
— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn


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