"quickload" meaning in English

See quickload in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈkwɪk.loʊd/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-quickload.ogg [US] Forms: quickloads [plural]
Etymology: quick + load. Attested at least since 1992, as a feature in the game Wolfenstein 3D (in the form "Quick Load"). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|quick|load}} quick + load Head templates: {{en-noun}} quickload (plural quickloads)
  1. (video games) An instance of quickloading. Categories (topical): Video games Related terms: quicksave
    Sense id: en-quickload-en-noun-J~YAh-7T Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Topics: video-games

Verb

IPA: /ˈkwɪk.loʊd/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-quickload.ogg [US] Forms: quickloads [present, singular, third-person], quickloading [participle, present], quickloaded [participle, past], quickloaded [past]
Etymology: quick + load. Attested at least since 1992, as a feature in the game Wolfenstein 3D (in the form "Quick Load"). Etymology templates: {{compound|en|quick|load}} quick + load Head templates: {{en-verb}} quickload (third-person singular simple present quickloads, present participle quickloading, simple past and past participle quickloaded)
  1. (video games) To load a previous save with a rapid keystroke, especially if this can be done while already actively playing. Categories (topical): Video games
    Sense id: en-quickload-en-verb-u2U0CGvl Topics: video-games

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for quickload meaning in English (3.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "quick",
        "3": "load"
      },
      "expansion": "quick + load",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "quick + load. Attested at least since 1992, as a feature in the game Wolfenstein 3D (in the form \"Quick Load\").",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quickloads",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quickloading",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quickloaded",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quickloaded",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quickload (third-person singular simple present quickloads, present participle quickloading, simple past and past participle quickloaded)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Video games",
          "orig": "en:Video games",
          "parents": [
            "Games",
            "Mass media",
            "Software",
            "Recreation",
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Computing",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To load a previous save with a rapid keystroke, especially if this can be done while already actively playing."
      ],
      "id": "en-quickload-en-verb-u2U0CGvl",
      "links": [
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "load",
          "load"
        ],
        [
          "save",
          "save"
        ],
        [
          "keystroke",
          "keystroke"
        ],
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(video games) To load a previous save with a rapid keystroke, especially if this can be done while already actively playing."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "video-games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwɪk.loʊd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-quickload.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/En-us-quickload.ogg/En-us-quickload.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/En-us-quickload.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Wolfenstein 3D"
  ],
  "word": "quickload"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "quick",
        "3": "load"
      },
      "expansion": "quick + load",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "quick + load. Attested at least since 1992, as a feature in the game Wolfenstein 3D (in the form \"Quick Load\").",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quickloads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quickload (plural quickloads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Video games",
          "orig": "en:Video games",
          "parents": [
            "Games",
            "Mass media",
            "Software",
            "Recreation",
            "Culture",
            "Media",
            "Computing",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Communication",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instance of quickloading."
      ],
      "id": "en-quickload-en-noun-J~YAh-7T",
      "links": [
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "quickloading",
          "#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(video games) An instance of quickloading."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "quicksave"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "video-games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwɪk.loʊd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-quickload.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/En-us-quickload.ogg/En-us-quickload.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/En-us-quickload.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Wolfenstein 3D"
  ],
  "word": "quickload"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "quick",
        "3": "load"
      },
      "expansion": "quick + load",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "quick + load. Attested at least since 1992, as a feature in the game Wolfenstein 3D (in the form \"Quick Load\").",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quickloads",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quickloading",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quickloaded",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "quickloaded",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quickload (third-person singular simple present quickloads, present participle quickloading, simple past and past participle quickloaded)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Video games"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To load a previous save with a rapid keystroke, especially if this can be done while already actively playing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "load",
          "load"
        ],
        [
          "save",
          "save"
        ],
        [
          "keystroke",
          "keystroke"
        ],
        [
          "play",
          "play"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(video games) To load a previous save with a rapid keystroke, especially if this can be done while already actively playing."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "video-games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwɪk.loʊd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-quickload.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/En-us-quickload.ogg/En-us-quickload.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/En-us-quickload.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Wolfenstein 3D"
  ],
  "word": "quickload"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "quick",
        "3": "load"
      },
      "expansion": "quick + load",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "quick + load. Attested at least since 1992, as a feature in the game Wolfenstein 3D (in the form \"Quick Load\").",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quickloads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quickload (plural quickloads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "quicksave"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Video games"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instance of quickloading."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "quickloading",
          "#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(video games) An instance of quickloading."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "video-games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwɪk.loʊd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-quickload.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1f/En-us-quickload.ogg/En-us-quickload.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/En-us-quickload.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Wolfenstein 3D"
  ],
  "word": "quickload"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.