load
负荷,负载,装载,加载
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Definitions
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- : anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
- : the quantity that can be or usually is carried at one time, as in a cart.
- : this quantity taken as a unit of measure or weight or a discrete quantity: carload; wagonload.
- : the quantity borne or sustained by something; burden: a tree weighed down by its load of fruit.
- : the weight supported by a structure or part.
- : the amount of work assigned to or to be done by a person, team, department, machine, or mechanical system: a reasonable load of work.
- : something that weighs down or oppresses like a burden; onus: Supporting her younger brothers has been a heavy load for her.
- : loads, Informal. a great quantity or number: loads of fun; loads of people.
- : the charge for a firearm.
- : a commission charged to buyers of mutual-fund shares.
- : Engineering. any of the forces that a structure is calculated to oppose, comprising any unmoving and unvarying force , any load from wind or earthquake, and any other moving or temporary force .
Phrases
- loaded for bear
- loaded question
- load off one's feet
- load off one's mind, a
- load the dice
- bricks shy of a load
- carbo load
- get a load of
- take the load off
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
We’ve arrived sans luggage but with loads of curiosity as to how the night will progress.
Twice a week, the retired veterinary pathologist picks up half-ton loads of donated groceries from the Trader Joe’s in his neighborhood, then delivers the food to two charities for distribution.
If your job requires you to spend many hours at your desk, then perhaps you may sacrifice the look of a chic, smaller chair and go for a larger ergonomic model that gives you loads of support.
You can count me in for pretty much any dish with “loaded” and “potato” in its name.
In the office, that pressure wouldn’t be so intense because you’d be around loads of people who are doing the work with you.
He also was working to recruit Castro as a driver for a drug load.
“JSwipe is currently under heavy load,” flashed across the screen, one night as a friend and I looked at it.
Today, the quaint spectacle of a stage-managed fairy-tale celebration strikes many of us as a load of garbage.
He would load his chair with groceries and other purchases, once a 30-roll package of toilet paper.
Biden made many visits to Baghdad and no doubt get fed a load of bull about inclusion on each one.
But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
Longcluse looked animated—smiling; but a stupendous load lay on his heart.