load

I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.

Our life's a load.

1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.

(figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.

The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.

She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.

A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.

I put a load on before we left.

A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.

(in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle

I got loads of presents for my birthday!

I got a load of emails about that.

(often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.

Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?

The volume of work required to be performed.

Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.

(engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.

I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.

(engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.

Connect a second 24-ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.

(electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.

If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.

1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 172:

A unit of measure for various quantities.

A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.

Far heavier load thyself expect to feel
From my prevailing arm

1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out of Robbie's crinkled but fleshy sphincter.

2006, John Patrick, Barely Legal, page 129:

It felt so good, I wanted to just keep going until I blew a load down his throat, but I hadn't even seen his ass yet, and I sure didn't want to come yet.

(vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.

What a load!

All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.

This description represents a form of delay slot: the load operation takes some time to complete, say n cycles. Thus, the value loaded only becomes valid n cycles after the load seems to have executed and can therefore only be read after then.

2009, Daniel Page, A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture, page 614:

(computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.

yük

number of articles that can be transported or processed at one time

натова́рване

the volume of work required to be performed

حِمْل

the electrical current or power delivered by a device

това́р

(electrical engineering) any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit

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”).
Cognate with Middle Low German leide (“entourage, escort”), German Leite (“line, course, load”), Swedish led (“way, trail, line”), Icelandic leið (“way, course, route”)). As such, load is a doublet of lode, which has preserved the older meaning.
Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verb lade; however, Middle English lode occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verb load (“to charge with a load”) is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare),
and (except for the participle laden) has largely supplanted lade in modern English.


load

The dock workers refused to load the ship.

(transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.

He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.

(transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.

The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.

(intransitive) To put a load on something.

The truck is designed to load easily.

[I]n his Paroxyſms, as he vvalked the Streets, he vvould have his Pockets loaden vvith Stones, to pelt at the Signs.

1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section XI. A Tale of a Tub.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, pages 203–204:

The containers load quickly and easily.

(intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.

I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.

(transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.

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 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.

The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.

(transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.

The cartridge was designed to load easily.

(intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.

Click OK to load the selected data.

(transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

This program takes an age to load.

(intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

He walks to load the bases.

(transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases

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 tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.

(transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.

The new owners had loaded the company with debt.

The new owners loaded debt on the company.

(transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.

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.

to load wine

(transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.

one oscillation of the loaded magnet,

1877, Charles A. Schott, Notes on Measurements of Terre Arial Magnetism:

(Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits

en-verb

load (third-person singular simple present loads, present participle loading, simple past loaded, past participle loaded or (archaic) loaden)

loads (present singular third-person)
loading (participle present)
loaded (past)
loaded (participle past)
loaden (archaic participle past)

lastata

to place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage

натоварвам

intransitive: to put a load on something

yüklənmək

intransitive: to transfer from a storage medium into memory

parantaa mahdollisuuksiaan

to tamper with to produce biased outcome

johdatella

to ask so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way


load

She never logs off; she is a real LOAD!

(Internet slang, obsolete) A person that spends all day online. The term was originally used in the late 1980s to describe users on free Q-Link (later America Online) accounts who never signed off the system at great expense to the company.