load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /loʊd/
ipa: /ləʊd/
homophone: lode
homophone: lowed
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: loads
Etymology: The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle English lode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old English lād (“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“leading, way”), Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to go, go forth, die”).
Cognate with Middle Low German leide (“entourage, escort”), German Leite (“line, course, load”), Swedish led (“way, trail, line”), Icelandic leið (“way, course, route”)). As such, load is a doublet of lode, which has preserved the older meaning.
Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verb lade; however, Middle English lode occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verb load (“to charge with a load”) is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare),
and (except for the participle laden) has largely supplanted lade in modern English.
For the meaning development from PIE, compare Latin carrus (whence carry) akin to currō.
Senses: examples: text: I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
glosses: A burden; a weight to be carried.
examples: text: Our life's a load.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.
ref: 2005, Coldplay, Green Eyes:
glosses: A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
examples: text: The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
text: She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
glosses: A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
examples: text: I put a load on before we left.
synonyms: washload
glosses: A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
glosses: Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
examples: text: I got loads of presents for my birthday!
text: I got a load of emails about that.
synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large number or amount.
examples: text: Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
glosses: The volume of work required to be performed.
examples: text: Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
examples: text: I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
examples: text: Connect a second 24-ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
examples: text: If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.
ref: 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 172:
glosses: A unit of measure for various quantities.
glosses: Ellipsis of viral load.
glosses: A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
examples: text: With the thought he he arose and removed his rifle from its boot. He looked to its loads and saw that the magazine was full. Then he inspected his revolver.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 79:
glosses: The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
examples: text: Far heavier load thyself expect to feel
From my prevailing arm
ref: 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Weight or violence of blows.
glosses: defecation
examples: text: Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out of Robbie's crinkled but fleshy sphincter.
ref: 2006, John Patrick, Barely Legal, page 129:
text: It felt so good, I wanted to just keep going until I blew a load down his throat, but I hadn't even seen his ass yet, and I sure didn't want to come yet.
ref: 2009, John Butler, Wanderlust, page 35:
glosses: The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
examples: text: What a load!
glosses: Nonsense; rubbish.
examples: text: All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.
text: This description represents a form of delay slot: the load operation takes some time to complete, say n cycles. Thus, the value loaded only becomes valid n cycles after the load seems to have executed and can therefore only be read after then.
ref: 2009, Daniel Page, A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture, page 614:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
glosses: prepaid phone credit
Synonyms: sense: unspecific heavy weight to be carried
word: charge
sense: unspecific heavy weight to be carried
word: freight
sense: unit of lead
word: fodder
sense: unit of lead
word: fother
sense: unit of lead
word: cartload
sense: unit of lead
word: carrus
sense: unit of lead
word: charrus
sense: the contents of one's ejaculation
word: cumwad
sense: the contents of one's ejaculation
word: wad
Hyponyms: wey
fotmal
truss
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from load (noun)
word: afterload
sense: Terms derived from load (noun)
word: ark load
sense: Terms derived from load (noun)
word: arkload
sense: Terms derived from load (noun)
word: armload
sense: Terms derived from load (noun)
word: arseload
sense: Terms derived from load (noun)
word: assload
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word: axle load
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word: axleload
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word: backload
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word: back load
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word: bagload
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word: ball load
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word: barload
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word: barrowload
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word: baseload
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word: bed load
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word: bedload
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word: bellyload
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word: beload
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word: binload
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word: bioload
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word: bitchload
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word: blowing a load
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word: blow one's load
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word: boatload
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word: bombload
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word: bootload
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word: boxload
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word: brakeload
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word: breakeven load factor
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word: bucketload
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word: bumload
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word: bunkload
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word: busload
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word: butt-load
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word: butt load
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word: buttload
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word: canoeload
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word: carload
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word: cartload
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word: caseload
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word: chock load
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word: church-load
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word: churchload
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word: classload
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word: coachload
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word: cognitive load
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word: containerload
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word: cop a load of
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word: course load
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word: courseload
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word: cowboy load
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word: crapload
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word: crateload
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word: crate shy of a load
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word: critical load
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word: crush load
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word: cumload
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word: dead load
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word: deckload
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word: design load
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word: disload
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word: download
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word: drayload
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word: drop a load
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word: dump one's load
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word: dynamic load
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word: eager load
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word: fire load
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word: foreload
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word: forkload
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word: freeloader
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word: front load
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word: front-load
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word: fuckload
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word: fuel load
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word: functional load
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word: get a load of
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word: get one's load on
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word: headload
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word: horseload
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word: hotel load
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word: hyperload
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word: jetload
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word: lazy load
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word: lazyload
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word: lazy man's load
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word: live load
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word: load bank
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word: load-bearing
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word: load bearing
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word: load cast
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word: load cell
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word: load coil
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word: load down
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word: loaded
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word: load factor
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word: load fund
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word: loading
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word: loadless
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word: load line
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word: loadmaster
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word: load module
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word: load of bull
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word: load of crap
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word: load of shit
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word: loadsamoney
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word: load-shedding
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word: load shedding
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word: loadsome
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word: loadspace
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word: load-store architecture
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word: load time
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word: load voltage
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word: load water line
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word: loadwise
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word: lorryload
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word: military load class
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word: military load classification
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word: muleload
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word: multiload
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word: netload
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word: no-load
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word: no-load fund
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word: off-load
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word: offload
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word: one brick short of a full load
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word: onload
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word: overload
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word: palmload
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word: pantload
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word: payload
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word: planeload
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word: poopload
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word: raftload
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word: running load
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word: sackload
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word: sea load
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word: seismic load
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word: shedload
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word: shed load
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word: shipload
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word: shiteload
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word: shitload
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word: shoot one's load
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word: sideload
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word: skipload
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word: sledload
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word: slingload
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word: snow load
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word: spoonload
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word: static load
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word: steamerload
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word: superload
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word: take a load off
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word: tankerload
sense: Terms derived from load (noun)
word: thrust load
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word: tonload
sense: Terms derived from load (noun)
word: trailerload
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word: trainload
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word: tramload
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word: transload
sense: Terms derived from load (noun)
word: tributary load
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word: truckload
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word: trunkload
sense: Terms derived from load (noun)
word: turboload
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word: underload
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word: unit load
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word: upload
sense: Terms derived from load (noun)
word: vanload
sense: Terms derived from load (noun)
word: viral load
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word: wagonload
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word: wind load
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word: workload ark load