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单词 load
释义

load

/ləʊd /
noun
1A heavy or bulky thing that is being carried or is about to be carried: in addition to their own food, they must carry a load of up to eighty pounds...
  • If you require an estate car for carrying bulky loads, rather than heavy ones, the 1.4-litre petrol version is probably the one for you.
  • Longshoreman and other workers who must carry heavy loads, or who have their back bent for a long time can easily overstrain their backs.
  • They are usually used to haul heavy loads or carry cargoes.

Synonyms

cargo, freight, freightage, charge, burden;
pack, bundle, parcel, bale;
consignment, haul, delivery, shipment, batch;
goods, merchandise, payload;
contents;
lorryload, truckload, shipload, boatload, containerload, busload, vanload
archaic lading
1.1 [in combination] The total number or amount that can be carried in something, typically a vehicle or container: a lorry-load of soldiers...
  • Note: the list has been restricted to a half container load to minimise costs.
  • Some have a couple of shipping container loads dragging at their heels.
  • Since she exports artefacts by the container load, she often negotiate contracts with local artists, a year or more in advance.
1.2A quantity of items washed or to be washed in a washing machine or dishwasher at one time: I do at least six loads of washing a week...
  • Wash only full loads in the dishwasher, or handwash dishes with a basin of soapy water and a basin of clear rinse water.
  • Never mind that it takes me two hours to hang out four loads of washing, not including folding and ironing time and I usually do about 12 to 16 loads per week.
  • Wash and dry full laundry loads and use your dishwasher's air dry cycle.
1.3The material carried along by a stream, glacier, ocean current, etc. the streams deposited their loads, leaving thin sheets of gravel or sand...
  • Both types of channels periodically deposit their sediment load as lobes onto the axial channel belt where it is reworked.
  • The position of the orogenic load during the Late Carboniferous is poorly constrained.
  • Grass buffer zones or vegetative filter strips have been investigated as a means of reducing nutrient loads in streams.
2A weight or source of pressure borne by someone or something: the increased load on the heart caused by a raised arterial pressure the arch has hollow spandrels to lighten the load on the foundations...
  • Joints move and bear a load: your weight, in other words.
  • Then they pressurise the load on top of the pillar.
  • It is possible he will be asked to drop some of the weight to ease the load on his left knee, in which he tore the ACL in 1998.
2.1The amount of work to be done by a person or machine: Arthur has a light teaching load...
  • For many professional hosting services, sub domains are hosted on different machines to reduce the load on individual servers.
  • To control the load on each machine, a script is run which increases the nice level of each process the longer it executes.
  • It will create a light load on the CPU while serving the most requests possible.
2.2A burden of responsibility, worry, or grief.The debt was a heavy load on the part of the Government whose leaders were spending sleepless nights thinking about ways and means of overcoming the problem....
  • In other words, we should all individually carry what is our everyday load or responsibility, but where it becomes too heavy for us, we all join in and share the burden.
  • It concludes that since military service is a burden, moral considerations require that the load be shared as equally as possible.

Synonyms

commitment, responsibility, duty, obligation, onus, charge, weight;
burden, encumbrance, cross, millstone, albatross;
trouble, worry, strain, pressure
3 (a load of) informal A lot of: she was talking a load of rubbish...
  • I do not support any of these commissions - I think they are a whole load of rubbish.
3.1 (a load/loads) Plenty: she spends loads of money on clothes there’s loads to see here, even when it rains...
  • There's loads to go through, it just takes so long to do!
  • And no there wasn't just one ticket counter there were loads.
  • Having these premises is really important for them because they'll be able to provide loads more services and be more of a resource for people.

Synonyms

a lot, a great deal, a great/large amount, a large quantity, a number, an abundance, a wealth, a profusion, a mountain;
many, plenty, reams;
ample
informal a heap, a mass, a pile, an ocean, a stack, a ton, lots, heaps, masses, piles, oceans, stacks, tons, oodles, scads
British informal a shedload, lashings
Australian/New Zealand informal a swag
vulgar slang a shitload
North American vulgar slang an assload
4The amount of power supplied by a source; the resistance of moving parts to be overcome by a motor: if the wire in the fuse is too thin to accept the load it will melt...
  • We employ a special platform to test loads on power supplies.
  • In fact, the system should be designed to permit individual modules to be taken off line for maintenance without removing the load from conditioned power.
  • Equipment was tested at maximum loads to check peak power loads and cooling capabilities.
4.1The amount of electricity supplied by a generating system at any given time.To estimate your electrical load, total the wattage of all the equipment you'll operate at one time....
  • In general you share a transformer with several neighbors; and since you share a circuit with them, their loads will affect your electrical supply.
  • Two fully independent AC and DC electrical systems are each capable of supplying all essential loads in case of failure the other system.
4.2 Electronics An impedance or circuit that receives or develops the output of a transistor or other device.Depending on the load, the voltage output will vary....
  • Since your main supply wires have some resistance, you will still get some flicker even when these loads are on different circuits.
  • When the current value detected by the current detector exceeds a predetermined value, power supply to the load is stopped using a breaker.
verb [with object]
1Fill (a vehicle, ship, container, etc.) with a large amount of something: they go to Calais to load up their vans with cheap beer...
  • They ensure the right vehicles are loaded in the right order so that the ship back in Europe is downloaded as quickly and efficiently as possible.
  • Yes, I packed and loaded vehicles, ripped apart furniture, and drove from one end of town to the other and beyond.
  • Response Time is defined as the time taken from the decision to begin treatment until the winter maintenance vehicles are loaded, manned and ready to leave the compound.

Synonyms

fill, fill up, pack, stuff, cram, pile, heap, stack;
lade, freight, charge;
stock
1.1 [with object and adverbial] Place (a load or large quantity of something) on or in a vehicle, ship, container, etc. stolen property from a burglary was loaded into a taxi...
  • They also provided maintenance support at the port of Antwerp, to help repair deadlined vehicles on the spot so they could be loaded into the ships on schedule.
  • The warm beer, the necessities and souvenirs laid out in the shopping area - everything had been loaded into vehicles or onto camels and brought out for the festival.
  • We now have container security initiatives and all kinds of gizmos and ways to check what's loaded into the containers.

Synonyms

pack, stow, store, stack, bundle, stuff, cram, squeeze, jam, wedge;
place, deposit, put away
1.2 [no object] (Of a ship or vehicle) take on a load: when we came to the quay the ship was still loading...
  • After an internal investigation, McDonald said the company has tightened up regulations to ensure no crew members are shifting places while the vessel is loading or unloading.
  • In relation to the access from Castle Street which is two way, Mr Hearn said this led to conflict between vehicles at the Castle Street access and is often made worse by vehicles loading and unloading.
  • She sighed and slumped once more into the plastic orange chair; it was only ten minutes before the Greyhound bus started loading.
1.3 [no object] (load up on) informal Take, buy, or consume a large amount of: I just went down to the store and loaded up on beer
2Make (someone or something) carry or hold a large or excessive quantity of heavy things: Elaine was loaded down with bags full of shopping...
  • And they were loaded down with so many people that they couldn't take them all.
  • They were loaded down with all kinds of freebies, including CDs and cardboard cut-outs of ‘Software Legends’.
  • The third year teachers are loaded down with thank you flowers and gifts from the students and write in the students year books.
2.1 (load someone/thing with) Supply someone or something with (something) in overwhelming abundance or to excess: the King and Queen loaded Columbus with wealth and honours...
  • My query was sincere, my comment was loaded with independently confirmable facts and you come back to me with… nothing.
  • He loads the film with pitch black comedy, giving it a rich texture that most filmmakers wouldn't be able to conjure up.
  • Politicians, pundits, and the hordes of bloggers have been polishing the brass on their discourse, loading their sentences with hot words that though they may glow with the flame of rhetoric, they are depleted of common sense…

Synonyms

reward, ply, regale, shower;
supply, provide
2.2Bias towards a particular outcome: the odds were loaded against them before the match...
  • The way we are taught Shakespeare is too often loaded towards the idea that his plays are about supposedly unchanging things, like love or ambition or treachery.
  • ‘The system is heavily loaded in favour of the Americans,’ he insists.
  • The appraisal process is loaded in favour of the methodological commitments of the appraiser.

Synonyms

bias, rig, fix, set up;
weight
3Charge (a firearm) with ammunition: he began to load the gun...
  • In court, it was said he loaded the Derringer ‘out of curiosity’ and intended to use it on a shooting range, but never got round to it.
  • The breech permits loading the howitzer from the rear.
  • He began to load his gun, and handed out ammunition to the others.

Synonyms

prime, charge, arm, fill, prepare to fire/use
3.1Insert something into (a device) so that it can be operated: load your camera before you start following breakfast we clear the table and load the dishwasher...
  • This allowed the police forces to become complacent - for example, how do motorists know which cameras are loaded and which are not?
  • When you load a camera in a warm humid atmosphere, then take it diving in cold water, there is a good chance that fog will form inside the lens or housing.
  • Keep your film and your batteries in a fridge if possible when you get to your destination, but allow your film to warm a bit before loading your camera.
3.2Insert (something) into a device so that it will operate: load the cassette into the camcorder...
  • This does require a little more expertise than just being able to load film into the camera.
  • Perhaps this is, in part, a lesson learned from forgetting to load film into my camera as a junior.
  • And who wants to fiddle with a camera that is so small that loading the film requires a lot of patience and pretty small fingers?

Synonyms

insert, put, place, fit, slide, slot
3.3 Computing Transfer (a program or data) into memory, or into the central processor from storage: when the program is loaded into the microcomputer, the CPU carries out each instruction...
  • Once your program is loaded into memory, the CPU is really the limiting factor.
  • This takes a different approach to most of the other software, loading different programs to cope with different sections of the editing process, from capture through to creating a final product.
  • These represent programs that are loaded into memory.
4Add an extra charge to (an insurance premium) to take account of a factor that increases the risk.If capital markets were efficient, the default risk premium would be loaded exclusively on to the debt of the over-borrower; there would be no free riding....
  • The money is generated by loading the insurance premiums paid by credit unions to ECCU and passing the resulting income on to the ILCU.
  • Can life insurers load their premium if their policyholders work or live in trophy buildings and constructions that are potential terrorist targets?

Phrases

get a load of

get (or have) a load on

load the bases

load the dice against/in favour of someone

take a (or the) load off one's feet

take a load off someone's mind

under load

Origin

Old English lād 'way, journey, conveyance', of Germanic origin: related to German Leite, also to lead1; compare with lode. The verb dates from the late 15th century.

  • The ancient root of load is related to that of the metal lead. The word lode meaning ‘a vein of ore’ and found also in lodestone (early 16th century) was originally just a different spelling of load. In earlier use load and lode were used interchangeably for both sets of meanings. The expression loads of ‘lots, heaps’ goes back as far as Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, where the original spelling was ‘loades a’. In the 20th century loadsa started appearing in print as one word, and in the late 1980s the comedian Harry Enfield created the character Loadsamoney, a flash Tory who boasted about the money he had made and threw wads of cash around. Loadsamoney was seen as epitomizing the ‘get-rich-quick’ ethos of the Thatcher years.

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