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load verb. Pa. pple -ed, (arch. & dial.) -en. L15.
[from the noun.]
a. verb trans. Place on a person or animal, or on or in a vehicle, as a load for transport; put on board as cargo. Formerly, carry (hay etc.). L15.
Beano Load your goodies on my cart, Mr. Baker. A. Brookner The chauffeur loads the suitcases into the car.
b. verb intrans. Take on a load or cargo; (of a vehicle) fill with passengers. Also foll. by up. E18.
Australian Financial Review More than 10 huge bulk carriers have waited..to load at Port Hedland.
verb trans. Put a load on or in; provide with a burden or cargo; charge with a load. Also foll. by up. E16.
Jayne Phillips We are kept busy loading and unloading the supply ships. Sunday Express After loading up the Land Rover.., Titus, our driver/guide, sped south.
verb trans. fig.
a. Weigh down, burden, oppress with affliction, sin, responsibility, etc.; impede, encumber. E16.
J. Galsworthy We load our houses with decoration. G. Greene Every day..had loaded her with something to decide.
b. Overwhelm with abuse, reproaches, etc. Formerly also, throw blame upon; charge with something opprobrious. M17.
verb trans.
a. Add weight to; be a weight or burden on; bear down or oppress with a material weight; weight with lead; increase the resistance to the working of (a machine). L16.
J. Wain Two middle-aged women..began to load the rack with parcels.
b. Adulterate by adding something to increase weight or density; make (light or thin wine) appear full-bodied by adulteration. M19.
c. Give a bias to (dice, a roulette wheel). (Earlier as LOADED 1b.) E20.
d. Electricity. Provide with additional inductance in order either to reduce the distortion and attenuation of signals (in the case of a telephone line etc.), or to reduce the resonant frequency (in the case of an aerial); provide with a load consisting of any kind of impedance. E20.
verb trans. Supply in excess or overwhelming abundance with. Also foll. by up with. Usu. in pass. L16.
Sir W. Scott Old Torquil..loaded him with praises.
verb trans.
a. Heap or pile on. rare. L16.
b. Painting. Lay (colour) on thickly in opaque masses. M19.
a. verb trans. & intrans. Put a charge of ammunition into (a firearm); in pass., have one's firearm loaded. E17.
R. Nichols Soon we shall load and fire and load.
b. verb trans. Insert a photographic film or plate in (a camera); insert (a film etc.) into a camera. L19.
SLR Camera Take a roll of film..and load it into your camera.
c. verb trans. Fill (a pipe) with tobacco; place items for washing in (a washing machine or dishwasher). E20.
d. verb trans. Computing. Transfer (a program or data) into memory, or into the central processor from a more remote part of memory. M20.
e. verb trans. Take up a quantity of paint on (a paintbrush). L20.
verb refl. & intrans. Increase (an insurance premium) by adding a charge to provide for expenses, an increased risk, etc.; charge (a particular life) with a loaded premium. Chiefly as LOADING 3. M19.
verb refl. & intrans. Stock Exchange. Buy in large quantities. L19.
Psychology.
a. verb trans. Weight the relative contribution of (a factor). M20.
b. verb intrans. Be correlated. (Foll. by on.) L20.
Phrases: load the bases Baseball place base-runners on all three bases. loading dose Medicine a dose sufficiently large that increasing it produces no increase in its effects.
Comb.: load-and-go Computing an operating technique in which the loading and execution of a program, and any intervening processes, form one continuous operation.