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Load

Definition: Load

Load

Noun

1. Weight to be borne or conveyed.

2. A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads".

3. Goods carried by a large vehicle.

4. (informal) an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate; "he got a load on and started a brawl".

5. The power output of a generator or power plant.

6. An onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind".

7. A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks.

8. The part of a missile or torpedo that carries the explosive charge.

9. Electrical device to which electrical power is delivered.

Verb

1. Fill or load; "load a car".

2. Provide with munition "He loaded his gun carefully".

3. Fill by packing tightly; "stow the cart".

4. Place a load on; "Load the cart with apples".

5. Put (something) on a structure or conveyance; "load the bags onto the trucks".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "load" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Load

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

1. The device which receives signal power from a source. 2. The signal power delivered by a source.The use of load in sense 2 is discouraged. (references)

Dream Interpretation

To dream that you carry a load, signifies a long existence filled with labors of love and charity.
To fall under a load, denotes your inability to attain comforts that are necessary to those looking to you for subsistence.
To see others thus engaged, denotes trials for them in which you will be interested. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Electrical Engineering

The value at any given moment of the power absorbed or supplied at any point of a system as determined by an instantaneous measurement or by the integration of power during a given period of time. Source: European Union. (references)

Energy

An end-use device or an end-use customer thatconsumes power. Load should not be confused with demand, which is the measure ofpower that a load receives or requires. (references)
 The demand on an energy producing system; the energy consumption or requirement of a piece or group of equipment. (references)
 The amount of electric power supplied to meet oneor more end user's needs. (references)

Food & Agriculture

The wood pieces being seasoned in a kiln, or being prepared for such treatment together. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. See:bit load b. The act or process of placing an explosive in a borehole; also, theexplosive so placed. See also:charge. (references)

Transportation

The lading or freight of a merchant vessel. The goods, merchandise, or whatever in conveyed in a ship for payment of freight. A general term for all merchandise carried on board a cargovess el. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Load

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Load is what is carried, or a force.

In telecommunication, the term load has the following meanings:

1. The power consumed by a device or circuit in performing its function.

2. A power-consuming device connected to a circuit.

3. To enter data or programs into storage or working registers.

4. To insert data values into a database that previously contained no occurrences of data.

5. To place a magnetic tape reel on a tape drive, or to place cards into the card hopper of a card punch or reader.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

The band Metallica released an album called Load, for which see for more information.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Load."

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Load (album)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Load is Metallica's sixth album. Tracks:

Ain't My Bitch
2x4
The House That Jack Built
Until It Sleeps
King Nothing
Hero Of The Day
Bleeding Me
Cure
Poor Twisted Me
Wasting My Hate
Mama Said
Thorn Within
Ronnie
The Outlaw Torn

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Load (album)."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Load

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

LOAD

EnglishLow altitude defence systemMilitary & Defense
LOCEnglishLoad on callN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Load

Synonyms: burden (n), cargo (n), consignment (n), encumbrance (n), freight (n), incumbrance (n), lading (n), loading (n), lode (n), onus (n), payload (n), shipment (n), warhead (n), charge (v), lade (v), laden (v), load up (v), stow (v). (additional references)
Antonym: unload (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Load

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Adversity

Trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure.

Completeness

Render complete; Adjective: complete; (accomplish); fill, charge, load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out, eke out; supply deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of; saturate.

Impletion; saturation, saturity; high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful; brimmer; sufficiency.

Contents

Noun: contents; cargo, lading, freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag; cartload, shipload; cup of, basket of; (receptacle) of; inside.; stuffing, ullage.

Gravity

Weighing, ponderation, trutination; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod.

Verb: be heavy. Adjective: gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.

Noun: gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness. Adjective: specific gravity; pondorosity, pressure, load; burden, burthen; ballast, counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of.

Greatness

Great quan quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap; (assemblage); stock; (store); peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance; (sufficiency).

Hindrance

Encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora.

Location

Billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put up, bag.

Pain

Noun: painfulness; Adjective: trouble, care; (pain); trial; affliction, infliction; blow, stroke, burden, load, curse; bitter pill, bitter draught; waters of bitterness.

Care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark, dole, fret, burden, load.

Redundancy

Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize.

Noun: redundancy, redundance; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation; nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion; (plenty); repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share; more than enough; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener; turgescence; (expansion); overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow; inundation; (water); avalanche.

Store

Deposit; stow, stack, load; harvest; heap, collect; lay in store;

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Load

English words defined with "load": Cart loadDead loadlive load, load down, load factor, load upProof load. (references)
Specialty definitions using "load": a load, allowable load, allowable pile-bearing load, anchor braced load, anchored loadbed load exchange reach, bed load transport capacitycapacity load, CHIEF LOAD DISPATCHER, Container Load, continuous load, cover load, cyclic loaddistributed load, dynamic loadeconomical load, electric system intermediate load, external loadFALLEN AWAY FROM A HORSE LOAD TO A CART LOAD, fatigue load, fully factored loadguided loadimposed load, Initial Microprogram Load, Initial Program Load, intermediate load, interruptible loadLatent Cooling Load, latent heat load, LATENT LOAD, LAZY MAN'S LOAD, load card, load cell, load controller, Load Duration Curve, load fund, load indicator, load isolator, LOAD MANAGEMENT, Load Profile or Shape, load rejection, load shedding, Load Shifting, load tallier, LOAD TESTER, load throw-off, load waterlinemental loadno load fund, non-linear loadpay load, PEAK LOAD OR PEAK DEMAND, PEAK LOAD POWER PLAN, planned load, PX LOADrated load, repeated load, repeated load cycle, rigid braced loadsafe working load, sensible heat load, standard load, static load, static test load, structural loadtarget load, total bit load, total critical load, type loadunderslung load, unit load, useful loadViral Loadwartime load, Waste Load Allocation. (references)
Etymologies containing "load": Withers. (references)

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Modern Usage: Load

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Load me up and light a match (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

What a load of (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott)

We've been told to drop a load in your garden (The Young Ones; writing credit: Ben Elton; Rik Mayall)

What if it decides to go melt a bus load of nuns (Short Circuit; writing credit: Brent Maddock; S.S. Wilson)

Not sitting on a load of dynamite (Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?; writing credit: Burt Kennedy)

Lyrics

If there is a load you have to bear ("Lean On Me"; performing artist: Bill Withers)

Girl, you better load your gun up right (LOVE IS IN CONTROL; performing artist: Donna Summer)

Like a load on your back that you can't see, ooh but it's alright (Tonight, Tonight, Tonight; performing artist: Genesis)

Help me cope, with this heavy load (Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth); performing artist: George Harrison)

There's been a load of compromisin' (Rhinestone Cowboy; performing artist: Glen Campbell; writing credit: Larry Weiss)

Movie/TV Titles

The Last Load (1948)

A Wagon Load of Babies (1901)

King of the Load (2000)

Lock 'n' Load (1990)

The Load Warrior (1987)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Load

DomainTitle

References

  • The World Market for Wood Pallets, Box Pallets, and Other Load Boards: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Guide to the Use of the Wind Load Provisions of Asce 7-98 (reference)

  • Load Balancing Servers, Firewalls, * Caches (reference)

  • Load 'Em Up Trucks (Mighty Wheels Series) (reference)

  • Manual of Steel Construction Load and Resistance Factor Design (reference)

  • Metallica - Load (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Load

Photos:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Load

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

"Mud beneath and snow above - A bad combination for a heavy load." White 1 and 1/2 ton truck Astro party of C. V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A fish cleaning expert awaits the next load of fish to land at the Dolphin Docks. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A bucket load of fish ready for measuring and weighing. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

F/V MONITOR with a load of skates for lobster bait. Credit: Fisheries.

A basket load of fish on board. Credit: Fisheries.

Bell UH-1M ready to load recruited reindeer for Santa's sleigh. Just kidding! Caribou passing by helicopter supporting bird observation camp on North Slope. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

An aerial view of the tug pushing a barge load of rock up Locust Bayou. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A driver prepares the draft horses to haul a load of woody debris to the upper stream bed. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Scientists and fishermen aboard the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ship MILLER FREEMAN prepare to examine a trawl load of Bering Sea fish. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The F-22 Raptor successfully completed the 16th load static test recently. There are three more tests left in the process to certify the strength of the Raptors airframe. (Courtesy photo).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Load
 

"Load Practice" by Jelle W
Commentary: "This is a slowakian loadmaster attaching a load for a Hippo helicopter. Org. size is 1280x960."
"Daily Load" by Mike Berg
Commentary: "Nebaj resident."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Use in Literature: Load

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Then the cannoneers began to load.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He dropped his load promptly on the floor and hurried to her side to see.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

On the load, Ma sat with her back against the truck side, and Pa sat opposite, facing her.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Load

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Pregnancy is not advisable because the illness puts an extra load on the heart and lungs. (references)

This allows more blood to flow to the heart muscle and also decreases the work load of the heart. (references)

These include eating a healthy diet, not smoking, and getting plenty of rest. Pregnancy is not advised because it puts an extra load on the heart. (references)

Business

The transmission line to Colombia has a 600 MW load capacity. (references)

Typically, a full sea container load may be too big for initial orders. (references)

With high performance glazing that reduces heat gain, the load imposed on the air-conditioning system will also be reduced. (references)

Economic History

Tanzania

Load shedding towards the end of 2000 affected production. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

With the economic improvement, Cote d'Ivoire began turning the corner on its daunting debt load. (references)

Tanzania

Due to the weather, generation has always remained below the demand, resulting into frequent load shedding. (references)

Human Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

Human Rights Watch and other independent investigators published the testimony of alleged survivors, who claimed gendarmes dragged many of them from their homes, marched them along a road where dozens of dead bodies lay, forced them to load bodies into vans, and later shot most of them. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Load

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Bob Woodward

So when you try to do something for years and there is denial, and then you get to a point with, oh, my goodness, look at mother load we've discovered. You have to get very cynical about the inspection process.

David Letterman

Well, that's very sweet of her to say. I think it's probably a load of crap, but it's very sweet for her to have said that. We would love to have Hillary on the show. We would love to have her husband Tubby on the show.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Load

"Load" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.09% of the time. "Load" is used about 2,851 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)84.09%2,3973,727
Lexical Verb (infinitive)11.04%31516,262
Lexical Verb (base form)4.73%13527,360
Noun (proper)0.11%3202,518
Unclassified Items0.04%1339,140
                    Total100.00%2,851N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Load

Expressions using "load": a load of a load of piffle aerodynamic load allowable cabin load allowable cargo load allowable load amplified trial load method anchor braced load anchored load appliance load axial load axle load base load basic load bear a load bed load bed load exchange reach bed load transport capacity bomb load bottom load breaking load bulky load calculated load value cargo load factor cart load case load coincidental peak load combat load continuous load critical load crushing strength at maximum load cyclic load dead load dead load capacity dependency load design wheel load distributed load dynamic load allowance dynamic load coefficient dynamic load computer simulation model eccentric load economical load electric system intermediate load equivalent fiber stress at maximum load equivalent fibre stress at maximum load equivalent isolated single wheel load excentric load external load failure load fatigue load flight load full container load full load full train load fulltrain load fully factored load functional load get a load of this! get a load off one's chest gross load hauled gross trailing load ground load guided load gust load high load impact load imposed load inertia load initial Microprogram Load initial Program Load intermediate load interruptible load journal for axial load kiln load latent heat load line load control linear load live load load and trim sheet load area load arrangement load balancing load bearing capacity load bearing equipment load capacity load card load cards load centers load centres load classification number load control group load cycle load distribution load down load down with load factor load hauled load heavily load immittance load impedance load lift. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "load": load-balancing, load-bearer, load-bearers, load-bearing, load-carrying, load-changes, load-discharge, load-factor, load-independent, load-it, load-line, load-MOST, load-restricting, load-shedding, load-stone, load-up, load-using.

Ending with "load": barrow-load, boat-load, bus-load, case-load, coach-load, lorry-load, no-load, off-load, on-load, plane-load, re-load, work-load.

Containing "load": plane-load charter.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Load

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

load

422

down load game

55

load cell

400

load bearing wall

51

down load music

299

load center

50

load bank

294

load off rail

48

front load washer

217

load handler

45

insurance life load no

211

truck load

41

down load free music

183

load broker

40

no load mutual funds

141

no load funds

40

load balancing

138

load runner

38

down load c d

115

lock and load

38

down load free game

92

insurance load no

37

cum load

81

blow my load

37

front load washing machine

79

load boards

35

load testing

78

life load no

35

load page patient please this

69

free down load

35

balancing carlo load monte

64

no load term life insurance

35

load transducer

63

tire load rating

35

home load

62

big load

35

load rite trailer

57

huge load

34

glycemic load

55

down free load movie

34
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Load

Language Translations for "load"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

laai (burden, drawer), belaai (burden), belas (burden, tax). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

telash (difficulty, embarrassment, hassle, mess, nuisance, pickle, plight, predicament, scrape, stew, trouble, worry), sasi e madhe (avalanche, bagful, bulk, deal, heap, mint, ream, rout), rëndoj (aggravate, burden, complicate, cumber, encumber, exacerbate, weigh, weigh down, weigh on), peshë (caliber, calibre, Dolly, heft, meterage, plummet, ponderosity, ponderousness, strain, weight, weightiness), ngarkoj (attribute, burden, charge, commission, cumber, delegate, encumber, entrain, entruck, freight, impose, impute, Lade, saddle, ship, weight), ngarkohet, ngarkesë elektrike, ngarkesë (arrival, batch, burden, cargo, charge, consignment, freightage, goods, haul, lading, loading, shipment, stowage, tote, weight), mbushje e topit, mbush me (fill with, infuse, litter, overrun), mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, gorge, Grout, heap, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, suffuse, tap, write out), ia shtoj peshën, barrë (burden, cart load, encumbrance, fardel, haul, jag, onus, pannier, pregnancy, tax). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حشا (beef up, cake, cram, jam, pack, pad, poke, quilt, ram, stuff, tamp, tampon, wad), ‏شحنة سلاح, ‏شحنة كبيرة, ‏أرهق (beat, break, exhaust, fatigue, gruel, harass, labor, labour, lie, overload, overstrain, pump, run down, saddle, soak, squeeze, tax, try, tucker, weary, weigh, weigh down, weight), ‏أقحمه في, ‏أمسك ب (grab, lock, take), ‏اعداد كبيرة, ‏شحن (charge, forward, freight, freightage, haulage, pack, truck), ‏عبأ (box, enlist, mobilize, put up, top up), حمل (burden, lamb, ram, to carry), ‏غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, submerge, suffuse, swamp, wash), ‏حمولة (burden, capacity, cargo, freight, lading, loading, tonnage, weight), ‏حمل (bear, bearing, burden, carriage, carry, carry on, charge, conception, deck, hold, hump, knock up, lade, lamb, lifting, portage, pregnancy, take, tote, yeanling), ‏لقم (feed, stuff), ‏مقدار مسكر, عب (burden), ‏عبء (burden, charge, encumbrance, onus). (various references)

   

Basque

  

agindu (arrange to, load to, put in order to). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

обсипвам (assail, beset, besiege, deluge, heap, intersperse, pepper, smother, sow, spot, strew, stud), претоварвам (drive, force, overburden, overcharge, overload, overtax, overweight, supercharge, surcharge, weigh down, weight), пълня (bowl up, fill, prime, refill, stop, stuff, throng), бреме (burden, burthen, charge, deadweight, drag, drain, encumbrance, exaction, fardel, freight, incubus, onus, tax, tie, weight), зареждам (prime, store), заряд (blast, shot), натоварвам (authorise, authorize, freight, saddle, truck, weight, weight down), подправям (adulterate, cook, debase, doctor, dose, dress, fabricate, falsify, fiddle, fix up, flavour, forge, gaff, imitate, raise, salt, season, sophisticate, spice, wangle), обременявам (burden, cumber, encumber, hamper, lumber, overburden, saddle, weigh down, weight, weight down), струпвам (amass, gather, lumber, mass, rake together, rake up), вземам (borrow, cover, fetch, get, got, gotten, levy, partake, pick up, pot, retake, take, take away, take in, take up), тежест (authority, burden, gravity, heaviness, letterweight, onus, ponderability, ponderosity, pressure, solemnity, weight), товар (bulk, burden, burthen, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, freightage, goods, imposition, lading, loading, tax, tie, tote, weight), товаря (burden, charge, freight, pack, weight), слагам опиат във, слагам тежест, натоварване (lading, loading, stowage, stress). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

càrrega (burden, charge). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

負載 , 載重 (carrying capacity), 装载 (lade, Laded, laden, loaded, loads, stowage), 包袱 (a bundle wrapped in cloth, burden, cloth-wrapper, weight), 擔子 (a carrying pole and the loads on it). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zavádìt (enter, misguide), zatížit (encumber, press, weigh down, weight), zatížení (strain), spousta (crowd, heap, heaps of, host, legion, lots, pack, Peck, plenty, spate, stack, volume), pracovní úvazek, naložit (can, embus, fill, Lade, load up, pack, pickle, put up, Stow), nabít (charge), nálož (charge), náklad (cargo, circulation, freight, impression, lading, number of copies, outlay, shipment), náboj (cartridge, charge, nave), hlasitý (loud, lusty, strident, vocal), břímì (burden, imposition, lift, onus). (various references)

   

Danish

  

last (burden, charge). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

last (burden, charge, trouble), lading (burden, cargo, charge), laden (burden, charge). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

ŝargi (charge), ŝarĝo (burden, charge), ŝarĝi (burden). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

løða (burden, charge), ferma (burden). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پرکردن (Brim, Cram, Frank, Full, Glut, Heap, Stow, Stud, Stuff, Suffuse, Thwack), ماشین یادستگاه , گرانبارکردن (Freight, Impose, Overweigh), تفنگ یاسلاحی راپرکردن , سنگین کردن (Ballast, Encumber, Gravitate, Weight), بارکردن (Burden, Pack, Prime, Weight), بارگیری شدن , بارزدن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lasti (burden, cargo, charge), kuormitus (demand, draw, loading, output, pull), kuorma (burden). (various references)

   

French

  

fardeau (bear a load), charger (to load), chargement (loading), poids, embarquer, charge (loading). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

fracht (burden, charge). (various references)

   

German

  

Last (burden, charge, charges, costs, encumbrance, onerousness, onus, pack, pressure, strain, weight), laden (boot, boot up, bootstrap, boutique, burden, charge, download, downloading, invite, joint, load up, loading, outfit, shop, show, shutter, store, summon, take on, to bootstrap, to download, upload), Ladung (batch, burden, cargo, charge, freight, lading, shipment, stowage, summons), Belastung (burden, burdening, charge, encumbrance, incrimination, liabilities, load capacity, loading, pressure, putting weight on, strain, stress, tax, tie, trial, weight), Fuhre (burden, cart, charge, chariot, fare), belasten (afflict, be a burden on, burden, charge, cumcumber, debit, encumber, incriminate, put a strain on, put pressure on, put weight on, strain, stress, stretch, tax, to encumber, to incriminate, to stress, weigh upon), beladen (burden, burdened, encumber, freight, Lade, laden, load down, loaded, stowage, weighed down), Bürde (burden, charge, encumbrance, onus, tax, weight), aufladen (boost, burden, burden with, charge, load down with, load on, load up, recharge, saddle with, supercharge, to load up, upload). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φορτίο (burden, cargo, freight, jag, lading, onus, shipment), γεμίζω (contend in, fill, fill up, fill with, stuff), φορτώνω (barge into, bedaub, burden, clutter up, saddle, ship, weight down), φορτίζω (charge). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

משוא (burden), משא (bearing, burden, carrying, longing, present, prophecy, stowage, tribute, utterance), מעמס (burden, loading capacity), מטען (baggage, burden, cargo, charge, dock, dunnage, freight, lading, luggage, stowage), יהב (burden, fate, imposition, impost, levy, lot), לעמוס (carry cargo), להעמיס (burden, clog), להטעין (charge, impose upon), עומס (burden, cargo, freight), טען (state), טעינה (charge, charging, loading), נטל (ballast, brunt, burden, encumbrance, weight). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

terhelés (allowable load, charging, encumbrance, loading, strain), teher (ballast, burden, burthen, cargo, charge, drag, encumbrance, fardel, freight, imposition, lading, liabilities, liability, loading, mortgage, onus, passive debts), rakomány (air cargo, bulk, burden, cargo, charge, fraught, freight, lading), töltet (charge, fill), nyomás (cramp, impression, press, pressing, pressure, stress, tension). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pembebanan (imposition), memuat (accomodate, lade), beban (assessment, burden, debit), bawaan (congenital, result), angkutan (shipment, transport, transportation). (various references)

   

Irish

  

ualach (burden, charge). (various references)

   

Italian

  

carico (airfreight, bulk, burden, cargo, charge, charged, filled, fiscal burden, fraught, freight, lading, live, loaded, shipload, shipment, tax, weight), caricare (accuse, burden, cargo, charge, download, fill, freight, Lade, load up, prime, strech, tackle, take on, upload, weigh down, weight, wind up), carica (appointment, charge, loads, office, position, winding). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

負荷 (burden), 載荷 (loading), 重荷 (encumbrance, heavy burden, heavy freight, heavy responsibility), 荷重 (overloaded, weight), (baggage, cargo), 装填 (charge, fill), 積み荷 (freight), ロート油 (aerial tram, Lord, lowbrow, low-fat, low-heeled shoes, low-necked collar, Rhode Island, rhododendron, road, road game, road holding, road map, road mirror, road race, road test, road work, roadracer, roadshow, robe, robe decolletee, roman, rope, ropeway, Turkey red oil). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おもに (encumbrance, heavy burden, heavy freight, heavy responsibility, mainly, primarily), ロード (Lord, road), そうてん (bluesky, charge, dawn, drill manual, early morning, fill, point at issue, sum total of one's marks, total points or score), さいか (accident, approval, calamity, catastrophe, loading, mistake, remarriage, sanction, the lowest, the worst), ふか (addition, annexation, appendage, bad, burden, empty show, frivolity, hatching, imposition, improper, inadvisable, incubation, levity, levy, shark, suburban districts, unjustifiable, wealthy family, within an urban-prefecture, wrong), つみに (freight), (baggage, cargo, red, red earth, takes after, two), かじゅう (aggravation, attendant, butler, excellent poem, fixtures, fruit juice, furniture, overweight, steward, weight, weighting), じゅうか (arms rack, den, dwelling, encumbrance, gunfire, heavy burden, heavy freight, heavy punishment, heavy responsibility, house, residence, rifle stand, serious crime). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(baggage, Burden, loads). (various references)

   

Malay

  

muatan (burden, charge), memuati (burden). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lughtey (burden, freight, lade, loading, weigh down), lught (batch, batch of numbers, bulk, burden, cargo, cast, complement, content, freight, train, train of personage), lhieeney (billow, blow up, charge, charge as battery, cover in, fill, fill in, fill out, flood tide, flow, fuel, inset, make, make of tide, pad, rise, saturate, spasm, wax, wax as moon), laadey (burden, weigh down), laad (burden, cargo, complement, consignment), errey (burden, imposition), dy lughtaghey, cur orraghey ayn (charge as gun), bart (bundle, burden, loom frame, parcel, parcel of shares, truss). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

laste, last (cargo, freight, lading), lade, belastning. (various references)

   

Occitan

  

cargar. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

karga (burden). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oadlay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

carga (batch, bulk, burden, cargo, charge, cloud-burst, downfall, fardel, freight, freightage, job, lading, loading, refill, rush, task, weight), carregar (bear, burden, carry, carrying, charge, convey, download, freight, heap, lade, shot, stoke, tamp, tote, wear), carregamento (ammunition, burden, cargo, charge, draught, freight, lading, loading, shipment). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

lua (acquire, assume, assume a name, book, bring, catch, clasp, clear away, confiscate, conquer, contact, contract, draw, extract, finger, form, get, have, hire, interpret, jerk off, keep off, lay hands on, lay hold of, Mount, nim, pick, pick up, pocket, pouch, receive, snatch, start, take), greutate (arduousness, authority, avoirdupois, bother, burden, charge, cumber, difficulty, embarrassment, encumbrance, hardness, hardship, heaviness, heft, poise, ponderosity, shot, trouble, weight), încãrca (bedizen, burden, charge, encumber, glut, heap, inflate, load with ball, pack, pile up, prime), încãrcãturã (burden, cargo, charge, freight, goods, loading, shipment, weight), încårca (burden, charge), îngreuia (aggravate, burden, encumber, obstruct, trouble, weight), îngreuna (burden, cumber, press), împovåra (burden), grãmadã (aheap, assemblage, batch, block, bulk, clamp, clump, cluster, cob, collection, congeries, crowd, drift, flock, heap, host, hulk, lump, mass, mountain, multitude, ocean, pack, Peck, pile, power, shoal, snag, stack, throng, ton, wilderness of), vânã (rider, streak, vein), plumbui (lead, led, Plumb, seal), povarã (burden, encumbrance, plummet, torture, weight), randament (accomplishment, benefit, capability, capacity, effect, efficacy, efficiency, output, outturn, performance, power, rating, return, yield), sarcinã (assignment, burden, capacity, charge, faggot, gestation, lot, mission, obligation, onus, pack, part, pregnancy, quantity, target, task, trouble, weight), solicitare (call, force, request, requirement, requisition, solicitation, strain, stress), copleşi (crush, flood, heap, invade, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, pelt, prostrate, shower, smother, stun, whelm). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

грузить (embark, freight, lade, ship), груз (bulk, burden, cargo, consignment, embarkation, freight, incubus, jetsam, lading, loading, plate, stowage, weight, weighting), взваливать (charge), обременять (burden, clog, encumber, task, weight), нагрузка (burden, charge, filling, lading, loading, thrust, weight, workload), нагружать (burden, heap, pile, weight), навьючить, заряжать (arm, charge, sparkplug), заряд (charge, recharge), загружать загрузка (loading, uploading), бремя (burden, deadweight, drag, encumbrance, millstone, onus), поклажа (freight, luggage). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

eallach (burden, cattle, charge). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ukrcati (board, board up, embark), udesiti (arrange, key, organize, preen, redecorate, regulate, rig out, tune, tune up), tovariti (foist), tovar (bulk, cargo, carload, cart load, lading, pack), teretiti (charge), teret (ballast, burden, cargo, drag, encumbrance, freight, heft, imposition, onus, tax, weight), punjenje (charge, fill, filler, loading, padding, stuffing), puniti (fill, prime, quilt, stuff), opteretiti (burden, encumber, lade, saddle, tax), opterećenje, nosivost (capacity, transport capacity), natovariti (lade), breme (burden, onus, tax, weight). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

carga (barge, buck, bulk, burden, cargo, charge, encumbrance, freight, imposition, liability, onus, shipment, tax, weight), cargar (buck, burden, carry, charge, charging, encumber, enwrap, fall on, Lade, load down, load up, pack, pile up, plough, plow, Stoke, take on, upload, weight). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

lay (burden, charge), stow (burden), frakti (burden, charge), ebi (burden, burdensome, charge, heavy, onerous). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

mzigo (burden, charge). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lasta (burden, freight, Lade, Stow, take in), ladda (burden, charge), last (burden, cargo, freight, freightage, loading, vice), lassa, lass, börda (burden, cumber, imposition, liability, loading, onus, tax, weight). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เพิ่มน้ำหนัก, เข้าไปในยานพาหนะ, น้ำหนักบรรทุก, น้ำหนักถ่วง, บรรจุกระสุน (load with), ทำให้หนักใจ, ปริมาณไฟฟ้าที่ผลิตได้, ปริมาณงาน, ของบรรทุก, ภาระ (beeswax, burden, labor, labour). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yüklenmek (attach, be stuck with, embark, lay on, lie heavy on smb., load up, shoulder, sit upon, stick it on, take upon oneself, undertake), yüklemek (ascribe, burden, charge, embark, encumber, fasten, fasten on, father, foist, freight, hand over, heap, impose, impute, inflict, Lade, lay, lay on, lay smth. at one's door, offload, overlay, pin, pitch, plant, put, put down, saddle, shift, stack, store, weight), yük olmak (be a charge on smb., bear hard on, cumber, impose, tax, weigh, weigh on, weigh upon), yük (bulk, burden, cargo, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, goods, haul, impedimenta, imposition, impost, incident, lading, loading, onus, pile, plummet, shipload, shipment, stowage, strain, sumpter, tax, weight), sorumluluk (accountability, baby, blame, buck, burden, charge, control, custody, encumbrance, engagement, liability, office, onus, pidgin, place, responsibility, trust), sıkmak (ail, bore, bother, Chevy, chivvy, chivy, clench, constipate, constrict, crush, cumber, depress, distress, extrude, give the willies, grip, harass, hatchel, hold tight, incommode, irk, jam, make fast, mope, oppress, pinch, press, pressurize, pull on, ream, ream out, squeeze, straiten, strangulate, tighten), sıkıntı (adversity, agitation, annoyance, anxiety, bore, boredom, bother, botheration, difficulty, dire straits, discomfort, distress, doldrums, draft, embarrassment, famine, fear, fret, gloom, gloominess, grayness, greyness, groan, hardship, heebie-jeebies, inconvenience, incubus, infliction, megrims, mopes, nuisance, oppression, pill, pip, pressure, rigor, rigour, rock, scrape, Strait, straits, stringency, tedium, the megrims, toil, toils, tribulation, trouble, vexation, weight, willies), katmak (add, adjoin, affiliate, ally, annex, append, include, incorporate, inosculate, integrate, interpolate, join, mingle, mix, number, put in, run in, superadd, tack, tinge, weave), doldurmak (charge, choke up, clog, complete, congest, cover in, crowd, fill, glut, infest, infuse, line, point up, ram, replenish, store, stuff, throng, top up, write out), şarj, çok yemek (overeat), çok miktar (muckle, slathers, slew, slue). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

zarяadlamak (charge), oklamak (charge, toss), яьk (cargo, freight). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

тягар (baggage, burden, clog, encumbrance, freight, onus, tax, weight), вага (amount, authority, avoirdupois, burden, heft, ponderosity, weight), вантажитися, вантажити (freight, ship), вантаж (burden, cargo, clog, consignment, embarkation, freightage, goods, lading, plummet, shipment, stowage, tote, weight, weighting, welter), обтяжувати (burden, charge, clog, cumber, overweight, task, weigh down, weight), навантаження (capacity, charge, filling, loading), заряджати (arm, shot), заряджай, заряд (charge, filler). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vậy nặng, vật chở (charge), trên xe, tải, gánh nặng vật gánh, điều lo lắng (trouble). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

llwytho (burden), llwyth (burden, clan, tribe), pynio (burden), cludair (heap, wood-pile), baich (burden, main point). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

kuchik (burden), kuch (blame, burden, charge, fault, guilt). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Load

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

gunu, u. (various references)