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Loads

noun

1.

A large number or amount. Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads. "She amassed stacks of newspapers"

Load

noun

1.

Weight to be borne or conveyed. Synonyms: burden, loading.

2.

A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time. Synonym: loading.

3.

Goods carried by a large vehicle. Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, loading, payload, shipment.

4.

An amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate.

5.

The power output of a generator or power plant.

6.

An onerous or difficult concern. Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus. "That's a load off my mind"

7.

A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks. Synonym: lode.

8.

The front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents. Synonyms: payload, warhead.

9.

Electrical device to which electrical power is delivered.

verb

(past & past part. loaded; pres. part. loading)

1.

Fill or place a load on. Synonyms: lade, laden, load up. "Load the truck with hay"

2.

Provide (a device) with something necessary. Synonym: charge. "Load the camera"

3.

Transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory.

4.

Put (something) on a structure or conveyance.

5.

Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones. Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, stretch.

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... hammocks, much at our ease. Many of them were laden with the presents they made us, consisting of very rich plumage, many bows and arrows, and an infinite variety of parrots, beautiful and varied in colors. Others carried loads of provisions and animals. For a greater wonder, I will tell your Excellency that when we had to cross a river they carried ...

— Amerigo Vespucci • Frederick A. Ober

... pretty complete railroad yard of their own at their headquarters in Pueblo. But they have three train-loads of tools and machinery here now, waiting for your orders to send them to ...

— Empire Builders • Francis Lynde

... on the subject of discoveries, it may be worth notice that, in a quarry close to the castle, where some men were working, we picked up several human bones, and that one of the labourers informed us so many as twenty horse loads of these bones had been thrown into the lake; he also spoke of two or three spear-heads being found with them. Groats and pennies of the Edwards and Henries have frequently been dug up here; but I believe ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 396, Saturday, October 31, 1829. • Various

... manner which we now behold along the coast of Greenland. Where the shore was swept by a strong current, these bergs doubtless drifted away; but along the most of the coast line they appear to have lain thickly grouped next the shores, gradually delivering their loads of stones and finer debris to the bottom. These masses of floating ice in many cases seem to have prevented the sea waves from attaining the shore, and thus hindered the formation of those beaches which in their present elevated condition enable us to interpret the old position ...

— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

... nursing, midsummer saw Lucy fully restored to health again. She had an easy and happy time of it now. There was no more trotting up and down, no more bending under heavy loads—it was only very light work her hands were permitted to do; and she would laugh and tell Aunt Hepsy she was making a fine ...

— Thankful Rest • Annie S. Swan

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