Usually means: Amount or weight being carried.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. load: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. load, load: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. load: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. load: Collins English Dictionary
  5. load: Vocabulary.com
  6. Load, load: Wordnik
  7. -load, load: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -load, load: Wiktionary
  9. load: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. load: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. load: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. load: Dictionary.com
  13. load (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. load: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Load (Metallica), Load (album), Load (computing), Load (unit), Load, The Load: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Load: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. load: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. load: Rhymezone
  19. load: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. load: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. load: Free Dictionary
  22. load: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. load: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. load: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Load: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  7. Load (electric): Energy Dictionary
  8. load: Legal dictionary
  9. Load: Financial dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  11. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Load: Investopedia

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. load: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. load: Netlingo
  3. load: CCI Computer
  4. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  5. load: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. load: Medical dictionary
  4. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. load, the load: Idioms
  2. LOAD: Acronym Finder

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. load, load: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. load: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Load: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. The Load: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. load: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. load: Electronics
  4. load: Glossary of Related Solar Power Terms
  5. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  6. load: Solar Electric Glossary
  7. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  8. Energy Terms (No longer online)
  9. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Pool Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)
  12. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  13. LOAD (AIR CONDITIONING), LOAD: Power Engineering
  14. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A burden; a weight to be carried.
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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