load
- Noun. A burden; a weight to be carried.
- Noun. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase ''a load off one's mind''.
- Noun. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- Noun. (context, in combination) (non-gloss definition, Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle) .
- Noun. (often, in the plural) A large number or amount.
- Noun. The volume of work required to be performed.
- Noun. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- Noun. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- Noun. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- Noun. (obsolete) A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight.
- Noun. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- Noun. (slang, sometimes) A slang term for semen.
- Verb. (usually, transitive) To put a load on (something).
- Verb. (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- Verb. (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.
- Verb. (transitive) To fill (a reactor or similar) with raw material.
- Verb. (transitive) (qualifier, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- Verb. (intransitive) (qualifier, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- Verb. (transitive) (baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases.
- Verb. (transitive) (context, especially of dice) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome. Often used figuratively, to indicate the gaining of an advantage.
- Verb. (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
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