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Etymology 1

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The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning ofMiddle Englishlode,loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, fromOld Englishlād(“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately fromProto-Germanic*laidō(“leading, way”),Proto-Indo-European*leyt-(“to go, go forth, die”).

Cognate withMiddle Low Germanleide(“entourage, escort”),GermanLeite(“line, course, load”),Swedishled(“way, trail, line”),Icelandicleið(“way, course, route”)). As such,load is adoublet oflode, which has preserved the older meaning.

Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verblade; however, Middle Englishlode occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verbload(“to charge with a load”) is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare),[1]and (except for the participleladen) has largely supplantedlade in modern English.[2]

For the meaning development from PIE, compare Latincarrus (whencecarry) akin tocurrō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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load (pluralloads)

  1. Aburden; a weight to be carried.
    I struggled up the hill with the heavyload in my rucksack.
  2. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrasea load off one's mind.
  3. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
    The truck overturned while carrying a fullload of oil.
    She put anotherload of clothes in the washing machine.
  4. A quantity ofwashing put into awashing machine for a wash cycle.
    Synonym:washload
    I put aload on before we left.
  5. (in combination)Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
  6. (often in theplural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:lot
    I gotloads of presents for my birthday!
    I got aload of emails about that.
  7. The volume of work required to be performed.
    Will our web servers be able to cope with thatload?
  8. (engineering) Theforce exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
    Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensileload of 1,000 newtons.
  9. (electrical engineering) Theelectrical current orpower delivered by a device.
    I'm worried that theload on that transformer will be too high.
  10. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by aprime mover when performing work.
  11. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
    Connect a second 24-ohmload across the power supply's output terminals.
  12. Aunit of measure for various quantities.
    • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers,A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page172:
      If thisload equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.
  13. Short forviral load.
  14. A very small explosive inserted as agag into acigarette orcigar.
  15. Thecharge ofpowder for afirearm.
  16. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
    • 1667,John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:
      Far heavierload thyself expect to feel
      From my prevailing arm
  17. (vulgar, slang)defecation
  18. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g.semen) of anejaculation.
    • 2006, John Patrick,Barely Legal,page129:
      Already, Robbie had dumped aload into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out of Robbie's crinkled but fleshy sphincter.
    • 2009, John Butler,Wanderlust,page35:
      It felt so good, I wanted to just keep going until I blew aload down his throat, but I hadn't even seen his ass yet, and I sure didn't want to come yet.
  19. (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
    What aload!
  20. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
    All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the pageload.
    • 2009, Daniel Page,A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture, page614:
      This description represents a form of delay slot: the load operation takes some time to complete, sayn cycles. Thus, the value loaded only becomes validn cycles after theload seems to have executed and can therefore only be read after then.
  21. (Philippines)prepaidphonecredit
Synonyms
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Hyponyms
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  • (1⁄12 cartload of wool & for smaller divisions):wey
  • (1⁄30 cartload of lead & for smaller divisions):fotmal
  • (1⁄36 cartload of straw or hay & for smaller divisions):truss
Derived terms
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Terms derived fromload (noun)
Translations
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burden
number of articles that can be transported or processed at one time
a large number or amount
the volume of work required to be performed
the electrical current or power delivered by a device
standardized cartload weight
(electrical engineering) any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit
the charge of powder for a firearm
the contents of an ejaculation
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Verb

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load (third-person singular simple presentloads,present participleloading,simple pastloaded,past participleloadedor(archaic)loaden)

  1. (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
    The dock workers refused toload the ship.
  2. (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
    The longshoremenloaded the cargo quickly.
    Heloaded his stuff into his storage locker.
  3. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
    The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morningloading.
  4. (intransitive) To receive a load.
    The truck is designed toload easily.
  5. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
    The containersload quickly and easily.
  6. (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) withmunition.
    I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten toload the gun.
  7. (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.
    Now that you'veloaded the film [into the camera], you're ready to start shooting.
    Now that you'veloaded the camera [with film], you're ready to start shooting.
  8. (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
    The workersloaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
  9. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
    The cartridge was designed toload easily.
  10. (transitive, computing) To read (data or aprogram) from a storage medium into computer memory.
    Click OK toload the selected data.
  11. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
    This program takes an age toload.
  12. (transitive, baseball) To put runners onfirst,second andthird bases
    He walks toload the bases.
  13. (transitive) Totamper with so as to produce abiasedoutcome.
    You canload the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.
    The wording of the ballot paperloaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
  14. (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
  15. (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
    The new owners hadloaded the company with debt.
    The new ownersloaded debt on the company.
  16. (transitive) To provide in abundance.
    Heloaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
    Heloaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
  17. (transitive) Toweight (a cane, whip, etc.) withlead or similar.
  18. (transitive, archaic, slang) Toadulterate ordrug.
    toload wine
  19. (transitive, archaic) Tomagnetize.
    • 1877, Charles A. Schott,Notes on Measurements of Terre Arial Magnetism:
      one oscillation of theloaded magnet,
  20. (Philippines) totop up or purchasephone credits
Derived terms
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Translations
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to put a load on or in
to place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage
intransitive: to put a load on something
to receive a load
to be placed into storage or conveyance
to fill with munition
to insert into an apparatus
to fill with raw material
to be put into use in an apparatus
computing: to read into memory
intransitive: to transfer from a storage medium into memory
baseball: to put runners on the bases
to tamper with to produce biased outcome
to ask so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way
to encumber, place as an encumbrance
to provide in abundance
to adulterate or drug
to magnetize

Etymology 2

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Acronym oflivingonlineall day.

Noun

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load (pluralloads)

  1. (Internetslang, 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.
    She never logs off; she is a real LOAD!

References

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  1. ^Walter W. Skeat,An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (2013),p. 345.
  2. ^"but lade is now usually replaced in the present and the past tense by load, a derivative from the noun load". Hans Kurath, George Oliver Curme,A grammar of the English language vol. 2 (1935), p. 262.

Anagrams

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishload.

Noun

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load

  1. prepaid phonecredit

Verb

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load

  1. totop up orpurchase phone credits

Chinese

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FWOTD – 17 August 2023

Etymology

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FromEnglishload.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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load(Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. (computing) to load (a webpage or an application)
  2. toreceivemobile data; toconnect to theInternet
    load空氣／load空气[Cantonese]  ― lou1 hung1 hei3[Jyutping]  ―  to have a very poor Internet connection (literally, “to be loading air”)
  3. (figuratively) tocomprehend; tothink about; toponder; tounderstand
    我load咗好耐先明佢講緊啲咩。[Cantonese,trad.]
    我load咗好耐先明佢讲紧啲咩。[Cantonese,simp.]
    ngo5lou1 zo2 hou2 noi6 sin1 ming4 keoi5 gong2 gan2 di1 me1.[Jyutping]
    Ipondered for a very long time before realising what he was talking about.
  4. (figuratively, of text or images) toappear; todisplay

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Related terms

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Estonian

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Noun

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load

  1. nominativeplural ofluba

Spanish

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Verb

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load

  1. second-personpluralimperative ofloar
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