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