load

Etymology 1
The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of, , which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from (ultimately from ,.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬). As such, is a, which has preserved the older meaning.

Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verb ; however, Middle English occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verb  is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare), and (except for the participle ) has largely supplanted in modern English.

Noun

 * 1) A burden; a weight to be carried.
 * 2)  A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
 * 3) A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
 * 4) A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
 * 5)  A large number or amount.
 * 6) The volume of work required to be performed.
 * 7)  The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
 * 8)  The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
 * 9)  A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
 * 10)  Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
 * 11) A unit of measure for various quantities.
 * 12) The viral load
 * 13) A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
 * 14) The charge of powder for a firearm.
 * 15)  Weight or violence of blows.
 * 16)  defecation
 * 17)  The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
 * 18)  Nonsense; rubbish.
 * 19)  The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
 * 20)  prepaid phone credit
 * 1)  The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
 * 2)  A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
 * 3)  Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
 * 4) A unit of measure for various quantities.
 * 5) The viral load
 * 6) A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
 * 7) The charge of powder for a firearm.
 * 8)  Weight or violence of blows.
 * 9)  defecation
 * 10)  The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
 * 11)  Nonsense; rubbish.
 * 12)  The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
 * 13)  prepaid phone credit
 * 1)  The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
 * 2)  Nonsense; rubbish.
 * 3)  The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
 * 4)  prepaid phone credit
 * 1)  The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
 * 2)  prepaid phone credit
 * 1)  prepaid phone credit
 * 1)  prepaid phone credit
 * 1)  prepaid phone credit

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: حمل, احمال
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: sartsinã
 * Assamese: বোজা
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bakhtiari: بار
 * Bashkir: йөк
 * Belarusian: груз, цяжа́р
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ⲁⲃⲓⲛ, ⲁⲟⲩⲓⲛ , ⲁⲩⲉⲓⲛ
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: koorem
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ტვირთი
 * German:, , , Beladung, , Ladegut, , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: φόρημα, ἄχθος
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ibanag: lugan
 * Ingrian: koorma, taakka
 * Irish:
 * Isnag: luxan
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: жүк
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: onus
 * Lezgi: ппар
 * Macedonian: товар
 * Maori: utanga, wahanga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old English: hlæst
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Lod
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: то̀вар
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: náklad
 * Slovene: tovor
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tabasaran: юк
 * Tajik:
 * Talysh: بار
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: perpette
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ýük
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uyghur: يۈك
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: gánh nặng
 * Yagnobi: вор
 * Zazaki: ,


 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: laadung, koorem,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: cjarie, cjame
 * German: Beschickung,, Beladung, , Ladegut, Beladungsmenge
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 積載量,
 * Korean:
 * Ladin: cèria
 * Maori: utanga, kawenga, wahanga
 * Plautdietsch: Lod
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: chargia, tgargia, carga
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: luchd
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Venetian: carga


 * Dutch:, heel wat
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 仕事量
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: పనిభారము


 * Arabic:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * French:, puissance électrique
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * German: ,
 * Latin: carrus


 * Bulgarian:
 * German:, elektrischer Verbraucher


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * German:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:, ,
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1)  To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
 * 2)  To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
 * 3)  To put a load on something.
 * 4)  To receive a load.
 * 5)  To be placed into storage or conveyance.
 * 6)  To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
 * 7)  To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
 * 8)  To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
 * 9)  To be put into use in an apparatus.
 * 10)  To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
 * 11)  To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
 * 12)  To put runners on first, second and third bases
 * 13)  To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
 * 14)  To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
 * 15)  To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
 * 16)  To provide in abundance.
 * 17)  To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
 * 18)  To adulterate or drug.
 * 19)  To magnetize.
 * 20)  to top up or purchase phone credits
 * 1)  To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
 * 2)  To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
 * 3)  To put runners on first, second and third bases
 * 4)  To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
 * 5)  To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
 * 6)  To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
 * 7)  To provide in abundance.
 * 8)  To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
 * 9)  To adulterate or drug.
 * 10)  To magnetize.
 * 11)  to top up or purchase phone credits
 * 1)  To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
 * 2)  To provide in abundance.
 * 3)  To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
 * 4)  To adulterate or drug.
 * 5)  To magnetize.
 * 6)  to top up or purchase phone credits
 * 1)  To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
 * 2)  To adulterate or drug.
 * 3)  To magnetize.
 * 4)  to top up or purchase phone credits
 * 1)  to top up or purchase phone credits
 * 1)  to top up or purchase phone credits

Derived terms

 * See Category:English words derived from: load (verb)

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عَبَّأَ, شَحَنَ,
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: ncarcu, ãncarcu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: laste
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ŝarĝi, ŝargi
 * Estonian:
 * Evenki: тэв-
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: cjariâ, čhariâ, cjamâ, čhamâ
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γεμίζω, φορτίζω
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بار بەستین
 * Latvian:
 * Luxembourgish: lueden
 * Maori: uta, whakauta, whakawaha
 * Mongolian:
 * Nanai: тэучи-
 * Norman: chèrgi
 * North Frisian: lees
 * Norwegian: laste
 * Occitan:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: chargiar, cargar, cargear, carger, charger
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Sardinian: carriai, carriare, carricare, carrigare, carrigai
 * Scottish Gaelic: luchdaich
 * Sicilian:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: సరుకు ఎక్కించుట
 * Thai:
 * Tongan: uta, fakaheka
 * Venetian: cargar
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:
 * Zazaki: bar kerden


 * Finnish:, ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, ,


 * Azerbaijani: yüklənmək, yüklədilmək
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Galician: cargarse
 * Spanish:
 * Zazaki: barnayen


 * Finnish:, ,


 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: løða
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Japanese: 弾を込める, 装塡する
 * Maori: puru, whakapuru, whāngai
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠰᠤᠮᠤᠯᠠᠬᠤ
 * Norman: chèrgi
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu:
 * Zazaki: pır kerden


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: laittaa paikalleen, ;
 * Galician:
 * Maori: puru
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish:


 * Azerbaijani:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: იტვირთება, ჩატვირთვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Norman: chèrgi
 * Polish:, wczytać
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkmen: ýüklemek


 * Azerbaijani: yüklənmək
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: parantaa mahdollisuuksiaan ; ;
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: magnetoida;

Etymology 2
Acronym of.

Noun

 * 1)  A person that spends all day online. The term was originally used in the late 1980s to describe users on free Q-Link (later America Online) accounts who never signed off the system at great expense to the company.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) prepaid phone credit

Verb

 * 1) to top up or purchase phone credits

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to load (a webpage or an application)
 * 2) to receive mobile data; to connect to the Internet
 * 3)  to comprehend; to think about; to ponder; to understand
 * 4)  to appear; to display
 * 1)  to appear; to display
 * 1)  to appear; to display