Definition of "load" in Englisch

noun

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.
(in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
(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.
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.
Ellipsis of viral load.
A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
(obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
(vulgar, slang) defecation
(vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
(euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- What a load!
(computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
- All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.

verb

(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, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- Click OK to load the selected data.
(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, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- He walks to load the bases.
(transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.
- The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
(transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
(transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
- The new owners loaded debt on the company.
(transitive) To provide in abundance.
- He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
- He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
(transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
(transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
- to load wine
(transitive, archaic) To magnetize.
(Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits