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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A weight placed on something else; a burden.
  • n. A substance added to something else; a filler.
  • n. An addition to an insurance premium.
  • n. Electricity The addition of inductance to a transmission line to improve its transmission characteristics.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The action of the verb to load.
  • n. A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted, or electrical current or power supplied.
  • v. Present participle of load.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of putting a load on or into.
  • n. A load; cargo; burden.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of putting on a load.
  • n. A cargo; a burden; lading; also, anything that makes part of a load.
  • n. Anything that is added to a substance or material in order to give it weight or body: as, the China clay or pearl-white used for loading note-paper.
  • n. In art, a heavy charge of opaque color. See load, transitive verb, 7.
  • n. In insurance, that part of the charge or premium on a policy which constitutes its share of the expenses of management.
  • Made so as to be loaded (in the way specified): as, a breech-loading or a muzzle-loading gun.
  • n. The process of filling silk with metallic compounds, for which it has a great attraction when in solution, in order to increase its weight.
  • n. In electricity, a method invented by M. J. Pupin, of reducing the attenuation of telephonic currents in underground cables and long-distance lines (and therefore improving the operation). It consists in inserting into the telephone-line at certain definite intervals self-induction coils, which neutralize the deleterious effect of the electrostatic capacity of the line.
  • n. The exorbitant profit exacted from workmen under the truck system (which see, under truck).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. goods carried by a large vehicle
  • n. a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
  • n. weight to be borne or conveyed
  • n. the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.
  • n. the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    product    merchandise    ware    handling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    load    cargo    burden   
    Verb Stem
    load   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    coding    decoding    encoding    eroding    exploding    foreboding    goading    imploding    unloading