load

  1. Noun.  A burden; a weight to be carried.
  2. Noun.  (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase ''a load off one's mind''.
  3. Noun.  A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
  4. Noun.  (context, in combination) (non-gloss definition, Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle) .
  5. Noun.  (often, in the plural) A large number or amount.
  6. Noun.  The volume of work required to be performed.
  7. Noun.  (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
  8. Noun.  (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
  9. Noun.  (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
  10. Noun.  (obsolete) A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight.
  11. Noun.  A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
  12. Noun.  (slang, sometimes) A slang term for semen.
  13. Verb.  (usually, transitive) To put a load on (something).
  14. Verb.  (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
  15. 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.
  16. Verb.  (transitive) To fill (a reactor or similar) with raw material.
  17. Verb.  (transitive) (qualifier, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
  18. Verb.  (intransitive) (qualifier, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
  19. Verb.  (transitive) (baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases.
  20. 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.
  21. 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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