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Definition: Loading

Loading

Adjective

1. Designed for use in loading e.g. cargo; "a loading dock"; "a loading chute is used to drive cattle into a truck or other conveyance".

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. The ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift.

4. Goods carried by a large vehicle.

5. The labor of loading something; "the loading took 2 hours".

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

Date "loading" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Loading

DomainDefinition

Chemical Industry

The amount of preservative or other chemical absorbed by timber, generally expressed in lb/ft3 or kg/m3, of treated volume or, particularly in diffusion treatments, as a percentage of the oven-dry weight of the piece. Source: European Union. (references)

Economics

The physical placing of cargo into a truck, a shipping container, or onto a vessel. (references)

Food & Agriculture

The act of placing material, i. e. the load, on a vehicle(animal or machine)for further transport. Source: European Union. (references)

Industry

Increasing the weight of fabrics by the addition of deliquescent salts or starch, China clay, etc. Source: European Union. (references)
 Finely divided, normally white pigment which is added to the stock in order to e. g. raise the opacity and smoothness of the paper. Source: European Union. (references)

Insurance

The amount or percentages added to the pure (or in life insurance, net) premium to provide for expenses, contingencies, or profits, or to ajust the premium rate for special situations. Source: European Union. (references)

Mathematics

The assigning of increased or decreased values to measures of items according to their relative importance of value. Source: European Union. (references)

Metallurgy

Deposition of chips, coolant and metal particles in the pores and on the surface of the grinding wheel. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

In ion exchange, sorption onto resins of metallic ions from a pregnantsolution in loading cycle. (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

The introduction of nuclear fuel into a reactor. Source: European Union. (references)

Post & Telecom

To load the machine, the cassette is fed horizontally into a carrier which is itself then pushed downwards into the machine. This action also opens the hinged front flap of the cassette. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Loading

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In telecommunication, the term loading has the following meanings:

1. The insertion of impedance into a circuit to change the characteristics of the circuit.

2. In multichannel communications systems, the insertion of white noise or equivalent dummy traffic at a specified level to simulate system traffic and thus enable analysis of system performance.

3. In telephone systems, the load, i.e. , power level, imposed by the busy hour traffic.

Note 1: The loading may be expressed as (a) the equivalent mean power and the peak power as a function of the number of voice channels or (b) the equivalent power of a multichannel complex or signal composite referred to zero transmission level point (0TLP).

Note 2: Loading is a function of the number of channels and the specified voice channel mean power.

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

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

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Synonyms: Loading

Synonyms: loading(a) (adj), burden (n), cargo (n), consignment (n), freight (n), lading (n), load (n), payload (n), shipment (n). (additional references)
Antonym: unloading (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Loading

English words defined with "loading": autoloadingcarbo loading, carbohydrate loading, Cranage, Crossbar shotDisappearing carriageFixed ammunition, Fraughtage, freight liner, From batteryjetbridgeliner trainmaterials handling, Matross, MitrailleOneration, Out of batteryRaft port, Reins of a vaultsave-all, self-loading, semiautomatic, ship broker, Ship's days, Shunt riflingtailboard, tailgate, transporter, turnaround, turnround. (references)
Specialty definitions using "loading": asymmetric loadingBlaisdell loading machinerydeck loading, distributed loadingeccentric loading, elliptic loading, excentric loadingface loading panlive loading, loading bank, loading checker, loading chute, loading conveyor, loading head, LOADING INSPECTOR, loading machine, loading machine operator, loading supervisor, loading tripod, long-duration loading, long-term loadingoff-centre loadingpreload loadingspaced loading, supervisor, loadingthrust loading, transverse loading. (references)
Etymologies containing "loading": Fraughtage. (references)

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Modern Usage: Loading

DomainUsage

Screenplays

The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)

The seeds of war. They're loading a full cargo of death (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; writing credit: Jules Verne; Earl Felton)

Now Sarge, what is the loading and firing procedure for the 75-millimeter cannon (1941; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale)

They just keep right on loading. Some of them come home with seven, eight bullets rammed up in the barrel, never fired a shot (Gettysburg; writing credit: Ronald F. Maxwell)

Clever

You're trailer trash when you think loading a dishwasher means getting your wife drunk. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Conveying It Across the Mountains and Loading It Into Boats Loading the Ice on Cars (1902)

S.C. Loading a Vessel at Charleston (1902)

Shipping Department. No. 2: Loading (1901)

Loading Sugar Cane (1901)

And Loading the Material on the Cars Demonstrating the Action of the Brown Hoisting and Conveying Machine in Unloading a Schooner of Iron Ore (1900)

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

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Commercial Usage: Loading

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Lifting, Handling and Loading Machine Conveyors in Europe (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Lifting, Handling and Loading Machine Conveyors Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Lifting, Handling and Loading Machine Conveyors in Africa (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Lifting, Handling and Loading Machine Conveyors Export Supplies (reference)

  • The World Market for Lifting, Handling and Loading Machine Conveyors: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Blackpowder Loading Manual (reference)

  • Intense Dynamic Loading of Condensed Matter (reference)

  • Muzzle Loading Rifle Then and Now (reference)

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Lifting, Handling and Loading Machine Conveyors in Oceana [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Introduction to Muzzle Loading (reference)

  • Muzzle Loading Basics (reference)

  • Hazmat Solutions: Loading & Segregation (reference)

  • Straight Truck Solutions - Loading & Unloading (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

High Tech

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

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Photo Album: Loading

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Electronics for loading Raydist tower. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Loading a stripped down Piper Cub on the PIONEER Plane used to tend tide gages and do reconnaissance. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Loading the salmon smolts aboard the JOHN N. COBB. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Loading a weasel on "Goldie". Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Loading frozen bait from Point Judith, Rhode Island, on a swordfish boat. Credit: Fisheries.

Stone crab fishermen loading their traps on board. Credit: Fisheries.

Another view of the crane loading rock into the truck. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A barge-mounted crane loading rock at the construction site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Crew loading supplies on the METEOR; officers and scientific party of the METEOR. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Native "commercial" fishermen fishing for tuna off the phosphate loading docks at Aqaba. Credit: Small World.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Loading
 

"Loading dock" by Taylor Dixson
Commentary: "Old abondoned loading dock."
"BOEING 747 UNITED AIRLINES" by Brad David
Commentary: "A Boeing 747-400 United Airlines at DIA (Denver International Airport) Loading Up. ."

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

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Historic Usage: Loading

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Goods in transit may be placed under seal or in the custody of customs agents; the loading and unloading of goods, and the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers, shall only take place in the ports specified by Germany. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Loading

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

They were nearly finished loading when a guard moved near, carrying his shotgun across his crooked arm.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Loading

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

This change causes a problem with loading capacity. (references)

For medium commercial vehicles loading capacity is calculated for sheet covering. (references)

All IEAT industrial estates have central wastewater treatment facilities for organic loading. (references)

Economic History

Finland

Finland has a total of 60 ports and loading places. (references)

Finland

Ports are secure and automated; loading and unloading operations are consistently quick and trouble free. (references)

Greece

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) faces hard disk loading and sales of counterfeit products throughout Greece. (references)

Indigenous People

Venezuela

However, the Caracas city government and the Metropolitan Police maintained a policy of forcing the Warao to return to the delta by rounding them up and loading them onto buses. (references)

Political Economy

HONG KONG

In 1999, Hong Kong courts handed down a first conviction for unauthorized dealer hard-disk loading. (references)

BRAZIL

The Brazilians recognize that many of its ports, loading and unloading as well as customs clearance need increased efficiency. (references)

Trade

Bulgaria

The dutiable value is CIF, consisting of the purchase price, transportation costs, insurance charges, commissions, royalties, license fees and all other expenditures associated with the transport (e.g., loading and unloading) for delivery to the Bulgarian border. (references)

Taiwan

On April 16, 1997, the Legislative Yuan passed these new regulations, which became effective upon presidential promulgation on May 8, 1997. Industries accommodated in the zones have been expanded from manufacturing to include large warehouses, transshipment firms, loading, unloading, and repair services. (references)

Slovak Rep

Slovakia is a member of the WTO and is bound by the GATT Agreement on Implementation of Article VII GATT 1994. In keeping with this, the basis for calculating the import duty is the customs value of the goods, including transportation costs and insurance from the point of loading to the border of Slovakia. (references)

Travel

Taiwan

The Kaohsiung Harbor is the world's third largest in terms of loading and unloading volumes. (references)

Worker Rights

Peru

Other children reportedly are employed at times in dangerous occupations or in high-risk environments, such as informal gold mining, garbage collection, loading and unloading produce in markets, brick making, coca cultivation, or work in stone quarries and fireworks factories, among others. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Loading

"Loading" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 69.67% of the time. "Loading" is used about 389 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)69.67%27117,854
Noun (singular)17.22%6740,952
Adjective (general or positive)10.54%4153,521
Noun (proper)2.57%10111,207
                    Total100.00%389N/A

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

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Derived & Related Names: Loading

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "loading".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
AmosN/ABiblical

Loading

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expression: Loading

Expressions using "loading": administrative loading aircraft loading table asymmetric loading bridge response to dynamic loading buckling loading carbo loading carbohydrate loading cease loading channel loading chimney loading combat loading commercial loading commodity loading compressive loading convoy loading dead loading difraction loading disc loading distributed loading downline loading drag loading eccentric loading elliptic loading excentric loading final loading gear motor with pressure loading gross loading heavy loading horizontal loading international loading gauge live loading loading agent loading and unloading siding loading and weight distribution loading area loading bank loading belt loading capacity loading center loading dock loading dose loading factor of channel loading factor of line loading gauge loading machine loading plan loading point loading port loading program loading ramp loading routine loading site loading stand loading track loading tripod loading zone maximum permissible loading muzzle loading gun muzzle loading rifle net loading nett loading particulate loading passenger loading bridge pinwheel loading place of loading on a rail vehicle place of loading on inland waterways transport vessel place of loading on IWT vessel power loading preload loading railway loading ramp selective loading separate loading ammunition span loading surface loading tactical loading trickle loading unit loading vertical loading wing loading. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "loading": loading-bay, loading-doors, loading-up.

Ending with "loading": off-loading.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Loading

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

loading ramp

180

down free loading music

15

loading rpcss slow

162

error loading operating system

14

loading

124

loading dock ramp

14

motorcycle loading ramp

101

loading arms

14

loading dock equipment

94

error explorer.exe loading

13

atv loading ramp

90

bridge loading

13

front loading washer

84

portable loading dock

12

front loading washing machine

73

carb loading

12

loading dock

56

aluminum loading ramp

11

muzzle loading

40

truck loading ramp

11

loading remote

40

dock loading sign

11

down loading music

39

loading data

10

loading truck

25

carbo loading

10

creatine loading

23

flash loading

10

loading system

21

loading zone

10

loading dock bumper

20

container loading

9

carbohydrate loading

17

loading machine robot

9

muzzle loading rifle

17

loading shotgun supply

9

trailer loading

16

loading page

9

free loading remote

15

automated loading trailer

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Loading

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

Albanian

  

pp e foljes load, ngarkim (assignment, lading, shipment, shipping), ngarkesë (arrival, batch, burden, cargo, charge, consignment, freightage, goods, haul, lading, load, shipment, stowage, tote, weight), mbushje (admission, charge, dressing, fill, filling, packing, pad, padding, pervasion, stuffing, suffusion). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حمولة (burden, capacity, cargo, freight, lading, load, tonnage, weight), ‏حشوة (fill, filling, padding, stuffing, wad, wadding), ‏حشو (charging, dressing, filling, pleonasm, redundance, redundancy, stuffing, tautology), ‏تحميل, ‏المحمل. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

товарене (embarkation, lading), товар (bulk, burden, burthen, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, freightage, goods, imposition, lading, load, tax, tie, tote, weight), натоварващ, натоварване (lading, load, stowage, stress), зареждащ, зареждане (charge, priming), пълнене (priming, stuffing), пупинизация, претоварващ. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

装货 (lading). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nakládání (treatment). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ladning (blasting charge, cargo, charge, cycle, electric charge, electricity, explosive charge, freight, load, round, round of charges), læsning (cargo, reading), laesning (on-loading), lastning (cargo, freight, lading, load), load (load), optagelse (absorption, admission, incorporation, intake, retention, shot, uptake), påfyldning (back-filling, construction of an embankment, delivery, embankment, fill, fill embankment, filling, forming of an embankment, nursing, supply), tilstopning (blinding, blockage of the filter, blocking, choking, clogging, fouling, obstruction, occlusion, plugging, sticking), vægt (scales, weight), vognlæs (cart load), vejning (weighing, weight, weighting), belastning (demand, electric load, load, machine effort, pull, recharge, strain, stress, traction), indsætning (carburising, carburize, carburizing, case hardening, cementation), indlaegning indspaending og opretning (clamping and aligning), indladning, indlæsning (entry, input, input process), fyldstof (ballast, bulk, bulking agent, encrusting substance, extender, extender pigment, filler, incrusting substance, padding, size, sizing), besvære, bestrygning (coating, filler), isætning. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

lading (burden, cargo, charge, load), laden (burden, charge, load), vracht (burden, cargo, charge, load), verzwaren (aggravate), smeren (anoint, smear, spread), opname (acceptance, acceptation, admission, photograph), weging (weight, weighting), vulstof (extender, extender pigment, filler), absorptie (absorption), inklemmen (clamping and aligning, crimp, to build-in, to fix, to restrain), dichtsmeren (luting, sealing), belasting (tax), belasten (burden, load, tax), belading (cargo, charging, filling, freight, lading, load, on-loading, to charge, to fill), inleggen (deposit, insert, pickle, preserve, put away, put in, stow). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lataus (charging), lastaus (on-loading), kuormaus (on-loading). (various references)

   

French

  

chargement (load), charge (load). (various references)

   

German

  

laden (boot, boot up, bootstrap, boutique, burden, charge, download, downloading, invite, joint, load, load up, outfit, shop, show, shutter, store, summon, take on, to bootstrap, to download, upload), verladung (embarkation, emplaning, entrainment), ladend, belastung (burden, burdening, charge, encumbrance, incrimination, liabilities, load, load capacity, pressure, putting weight on, strain, stress, tax, tie, trial, weight), aufladend. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φόρτωση (freighting, lading, shipment, shipping). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

עמיסה, העמסה, הטענה (lading), טעינה (charge, charging, load). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

terhelés (allowable load, charging, encumbrance, load, strain), rakodás (lading, stowage), megterhelés (burden, charging, encumbrance, handicap, imposition, strain), berakodás (embarkation, lading). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pemuatan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

caricamento (capping, charge, charging, feeding, filling, lading, packing, to charge, to fill). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

積載 (carrying, lading). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そうか (Buddhist temple, family in mourning, flower, flower arrangement, flowering plant, homeless, streetwalker), そうだん (collection of stories, consultation, discussion), さいせき (broken stone, carrying, quarrying, rubble), さいか (accident, approval, calamity, catastrophe, load, mistake, remarriage, sanction, the lowest, the worst), つみこみ, にづみ, せきさい (carrying, lading), じゅうてん (colon, emphasis, fill, filling, important point, lay stress on, plug, replenish). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

선적 (shipment). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lughtey (burden, freight, lade, load, weigh down), lughtaghey (charging, fill, filling, freight, lading, stow, stowage, write down). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

lasting, lading. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oadinglay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

carregamento (ammunition, burden, cargo, charge, draught, freight, lading, load, shipment), carga (batch, bulk, burden, cargo, charge, cloud-burst, downfall, fardel, freight, freightage, job, lading, load, refill, rush, task, weight). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

prima suplimentarã, încãrcare (embarkation), încãrcãturã (burden, cargo, charge, freight, goods, load, shipment, weight). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

утяжеление, грузовой (freight), груз (bulk, burden, cargo, consignment, embarkation, freight, incubus, jetsam, lading, load, plate, stowage, weight, weighting), нагрузка (burden, charge, filling, lading, load, thrust, weight, workload), заряжающий (charger), заряжание, зарядка (daily dozen sport, physical drill, physical jerks, push-up), загрузка (batch, charge), загружать загрузка (load, uploading), погрузка (lading, shipment, shipping), погрузочный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

utovar (load on, shipping), ukrcavanje (embarkation, shipping), udeo premije u troškovima poslovanja, punjenje (charge, fill, filler, load, padding, stuffing), koji tovari. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

solicitación (appeal, application, canvass, request, solicitation), sobreprima, sobrecarga (levy, overburden, overcharge, overfreight, overload, overprint, surcharge), ponderación (consideration, high praise, steadiness, weighing), colocación de las piezas para el soldeo (clamping and aligning), carro (Barrow, car, carriage, cart, chariot, motor, motorcar, shopping cart, tank, truck, waggon, wagon), carretonaje (cart load), carretada (carload, cartload), cargue (filling, mucking, power-loading), cargado (airless, charged, charges, encumbered, encumbers, frowsty, laded, laden, loaded, stuffy), carga de un carro (cart load), carga de impregnación (absorption, retention, uptake), carga (barge, buck, bulk, burden, cargo, charge, encumbrance, freight, imposition, liability, load, onus, shipment, tax, weight), Absorción (absorbing, absorption, absorptivity). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

last (burden, cargo, freight, freightage, load, vice), laddning (charge, load), belastning (affliction, charge, dead weight, debit, encumbrance, imposition, liability, strain, stress, tax, weight). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yükleme (ascription, charge, embarkation, imposition, lading, predication, shipment), yük (bulk, burden, cargo, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, goods, haul, impedimenta, imposition, impost, incident, lading, load, onus, pile, plummet, shipload, shipment, stowage, strain, sumpter, tax, weight), film takma, doldurma (charging, filling, refill, springing). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

zarяadka (r) (drill, exercise). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

вантаження (heaving, shipment, shipping), навантаження (capacity, charge, filling, load). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Loading

Derivations

Words beginning with "loading": loadings. (additional references)

Words ending with "loading": autoloading, downloading, freeloading, offloading, overloading, reloading, unloading, uploading. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Loading" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: liadin, liganding, loadeing, lodin, loding, londini, luding, oading. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Loading"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "loading" (pronounced lō"ding)
5l ō" d i ngexploding, imploding, unloading.
4-ō" d i ngcoding, decoding, encoding, eroding, foreboding, goading.
3-d i ngapplauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, ending, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Loading

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-l-n-o"

-1 letter: algoid, dialog, doling, ganoid, lading, ladino, ligand.

-2 letters: algid, algin, align, aloin, along, danio, dingo, doing, donga, gland, gonad, gonia, indol, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, logan, logia, nidal, nodal.

-3 letters: agin, agio, agon, anil, dago, dang, dial, ding, diol, dona, dong, gadi, gain, gaol, gild, glad, glia, goad, goal, gold, idol, laid, lain.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-l-n-o"
 

+1 letter: diagonal, gonadial, gonidial, loadings.

 

+2 letters: adoringly, alongside, coleading, diagonals, dialoging, genocidal, girandole, glissando, reloading, unloading, uploading.

 

+3 letters: analogized, blockading, boldfacing, canoodling, delegation, desolating, diagonally, dialoguing, diplomaing, fanfolding, gadolinite, gadolinium, girandoles, glissandos, holidaying, intaglioed, landowning, longhaired, modulating, nonaligned, offloading, overlading, padlocking, pollarding, sloganized.

 

+4 letters: accordingly, autoloading, deadlocking, decollating, defoliating, delegations, diabolizing, diagnosable, diagonalize, diphthongal, disallowing, dislocating, dovetailing, downloading, downplaying, downscaling, dragonflies, freeloading, gadolinites, gadoliniums, ganglioside, goaltending, gradational, grandiflora, grandiosely, handholding, landholding, landownings, manifolding, outdazzling, overloading, postlanding, railroading, roadholding, scaffolding.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Usage Frequency
13. Names: Derived from
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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