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▸ noun: (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
▸ noun: A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
▸ noun: A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
▸ noun: (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
▸ noun: (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
▸ noun: The volume of work required to be performed.
▸ noun: (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
▸ noun: (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
▸ noun: (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
▸ noun: (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
▸ noun: A unit of measure for various quantities.
▸ noun: A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
▸ noun: The charge of powder for a firearm.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
▸ noun: (vulgar, slang) defecation
▸ noun: (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
▸ noun: (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
▸ noun: (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
▸ noun: (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
▸ verb: (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
▸ verb: (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To put a load on something.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To receive a load.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
▸ verb: (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
▸ verb: (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
▸ verb: (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
▸ verb: (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
▸ verb: (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
▸ verb: (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
▸ verb: (transitive) To provide in abundance.
▸ verb: (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.
▸ verb: (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: Short for viral load. [(pathology) A measure of the severity of a viral infection based on the amount of virus in a bodily fluid.]
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