Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A weight placed on something else; a burden.
- noun A substance added to something else; a filler.
- noun An addition to an insurance premium.
- noun Electricity The addition of inductance to a transmission line to improve its transmission characteristics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of putting on a load.
- noun A cargo; a burden; lading; also, anything that makes part of a load.
- noun Anything that is added to a substance or material in order to give it weight or body: as, the China clay or pearl-white used for loading note-paper.
- noun In art, a heavy charge of opaque color. See
load , transitive verb, 7. - noun In insurance, that part of the charge or premium on a policy which constitutes its share of the expenses of management.
- noun The process of filling silk with metallic compounds, for which it has a great attraction when in solution, in order to increase its weight.
- noun In electricity, a method invented by M. J. Pupin, of reducing the attenuation of telephonic currents in underground cables and long-distance lines (and therefore improving the operation). It consists in inserting into the telephone-line at certain definite intervals self-induction coils, which neutralize the deleterious effect of the electrostatic capacity of the line.
- noun The exorbitant profit exacted from workmen under the truck system (which see, under
truck ). - Made so as to be loaded (in the way specified): as, a breech-loading or a muzzle-loading gun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of putting a load on or into.
- noun A load; cargo; burden.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The action of the verb to
load . - noun A
load , especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted, or electrical current or power supplied. - verb Present participle of
load .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
- noun a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- noun weight to be borne or conveyed
- noun the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.
- noun the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word loading.
Examples
-
It is traditional to pay $20 Pesos which includes a tip for the driver and, as they are always helpful in loading and unloading one´s groceries, the tab for that service might call for another three pesos or so.
Charging for parking 2009
-
It is traditional to pay $20 Pesos which includes a tip for the driver and, as they are always helpful in loading and unloading one´s groceries, the tab for that service might call for another three pesos or so.
Charging for parking 2009
-
The glaring contradiction posed by the obviously symmetrical carbon dioxide concentrations in both hemispheres while the anthropogenic loading is primarily in the North.
Hansen: Obama has only four years to save the world - NASA Watch 2009
-
Front-loading is not a philosophical position so your analogy is irrelevant.
Blast From the Past 2010
-
"Well, Shorty, you and Mr Smoke had better begin loading the boat."
THE MEAT 2010
-
It is traditional to pay $20 Pesos which includes a tip for the driver and, as they are always helpful in loading and unloading one´s groceries, the tab for that service might call for another three pesos or so.
Charging for parking 2009
-
It is traditional to pay $20 Pesos which includes a tip for the driver and, as they are always helpful in loading and unloading one´s groceries, the tab for that service might call for another three pesos or so.
Charging for parking 2009
-
It is traditional to pay $20 Pesos which includes a tip for the driver and, as they are always helpful in loading and unloading one´s groceries, the tab for that service might call for another three pesos or so.
Charging for parking 2009
-
It is traditional to pay $20 Pesos which includes a tip for the driver and, as they are always helpful in loading and unloading one´s groceries, the tab for that service might call for another three pesos or so.
Charging for parking 2009
-
It is traditional to pay $20 Pesos which includes a tip for the driver and, as they are always helpful in loading and unloading one´s groceries, the tab for that service might call for another three pesos or so.
Charging for parking 2009
GHibbs commented on the word loading
My adjectival use: 'You need to load in the loading bay.'
August 22, 2011