load
Forms
- Plural
- loads
- present (v1)
- load
- past (v2)
- loaded
- past participle (v3)
- loaded
- present participle
- loading
- 3rd person singular
- loads
Definitions
1.A burden; a weight to be carried.
- I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
2.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.
3.A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- I put a load on before we left.
4.A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.
1.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.
2.To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- The dock workers refused to load the ship.
3.To put a load on something.
- The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.
4.To receive a load.
- The truck is designed to load easily.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2419
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Synonyms
Etymology
The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle English lode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old English lād (“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“leading, way”), Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to go, go forth, die”).