1. A large number or amount
   "made loads of new friends";
   - tons [informal], dozens, heaps [informal], lots, piles [informal], scores, stacks [informal], rafts [informal], slews, wads [informal], oodles [informal], gobs [N. Amer, informal], scads [N. Amer, informal], lashings [Brit, informal], many, masses [Brit, informal]

1. Weight to be borne or conveyed
   "The truck groaned under its heavy load";
   - loading, burden
    
2. A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
   "the system broke down under excessive loads";
   - loading
    
3. Goods carried by a large vehicle
   "on arrival they transfered the load to the warehouse";
   - cargo, lading, freight, payload, shipment, consignment
    
4. Electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
   "The generator wasn't powerful enough to handle the additional load"
    
5. The power output of a generator or power plant
   "The power plant increased its load to meet the high demand during the heatwave"
    
6. An onerous or difficult concern
   "that's a load off my mind";
   - burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus
    
7. A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
   "The miners discovered a rich load of silver ore";
   - lode
    
8. The front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
   "The missile's load contained conventional explosives";
   - warhead, payload
    
9. An amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
   "he got a load on and started a brawl"

1. Fill completely or heavily with cargo or supplies
   "load a car"; "load the truck with hay"; "load up a car";
   - lade [archaic], laden, load up
    
2. Put (something) on a structure or conveyance
   "load the bags onto the trucks"
    
3. Provide (a device) with something necessary
   "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera";
   - charge
    
4. (computing) transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
   "The program loads the necessary files into RAM"
    
5. Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
   "The dishonest merchant loaded the spices with cheaper materials";
   - adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase

Sounds like: load, lode, looads, l

Type of: alluviation, concern, corrupt, deposit, electric power, electrical device, electrical power, explosive, fill, fill up, headache, indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, lay, merch [informal], merchandise, place, pose, position, product, put, sedimentation, set, spoil, transfer, vexation, ware, wattage, weight, worry

Part of: guided missile

Encyclopedia: Loads