Search Result:loads
Overview of noun loads
The noun loads has 1 sense
- tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings -- (a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers")
Overview of noun load
The noun load has 9 senses
- load, loading, burden -- (weight to be borne or conveyed)
- load, loading -- (a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads")
- cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment -- (goods carried by a large vehicle)
- load -- (an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate; "he got a load on and started a brawl")
- load -- (the power output of a generator or power plant)
- burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus -- (an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind")
- lode, load -- (a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks)
- warhead, payload, load -- (the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents)
- load -- (electrical device to which electrical power is delivered)
Overview of verb load
The verb load has 5 senses
- load, lade, laden, load up -- (fill or place a load on; "load a car"; "load the truck with hay")
- load, charge -- (provide (a device) with something necessary; "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera")
- load -- (transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory)
- load -- (put (something) on a structure or conveyance; "load the bags onto the trucks")
- load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase -- (corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor")