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Definition: Load |
LoadNoun1. 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. Verb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
(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."
(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)."
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
LOAD | English | Low altitude defence system | Military & Defense |
| LOC | English | Load on call | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LoadSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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![]() | "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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| "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. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 84.09% | 2,397 | 3,727 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 11.04% | 315 | 16,262 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.73% | 135 | 27,360 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.11% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,851 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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), 荷 (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), に (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 | 짐 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gunu, u. (various references) |