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Loading

noun

1.

Weight to be borne or conveyed. Synonyms: burden, load.

2.

A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time. Synonym: load.

3.

The ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift.

4.

Goods carried by a large vehicle. Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, payload, shipment.

5.

The labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.. Antonym: unloading.

Load

verb

(past & past part. loaded; pres. part. loading)

1.

Fill or place a load on. Synonyms: lade, laden, load up. "Load the truck with hay"

2.

Provide (a device) with something necessary. Synonym: charge. "Load the camera"

3.

Transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory.

4.

Put (something) on a structure or conveyance.

5.

Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones. Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, stretch.

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"Loading" Quotes from Famous Books

... echoing from the glass roof of the station; the ring of steel sounding through the hissing of steam, noise of laughter and talk, mingled with the dense dull sound of truck wheels, of footsteps, of luggage loading. ...

— Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands • Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson

... covered the mudbanks. The favourable moment was however lost, and by the fierce energy of the little old Spaniard the defenders of the fort were driven back to their guns. Jack pretended to be very busy loading his. He had managed to get in a shot during the confusion, and one of the blacks next rammed in the powder and put another shot in after it. "All right! now blaze away, my hearty!" he sang out. He had piled up a good quantity ...

— The Three Midshipmen • W.H.G. Kingston

... pride. Before night I started two deer in a brushy place, and they leaped high over the oak bushes in the most affrighted way. I brought my gun to my shoulder and fired at the bounding animal when in most plain sight. Loading then quickly, I hurried up the trail as fast as I could and soon came to my deer, dead, with a bullet hole in its head. I was really surprised myself, for I had fired so hastily at the almost flying animal that it was little more than a random shot. As the deer was not ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

... guns Courtin calls "pieces a la minute." The proper name should be "canon a la suedoise" or "canon a la minute." They were invented by the Swedes, who used 3-pounders with improved methods for loading and firing, so as to be able to fire as many as ten shots in a minute. The French adopted a 4-pounder gun of this kind in 1743. The above information was given me by Lieut.-Colonel Ottley Perry, on the authority ...

— Three Frenchmen in Bengal - The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 • S.C. Hill

... noticed that the coast-line is broken at frequent intervals by the mouths of small streams, and at the available points at the mouths of these streams saw-mills are placed. This continues up the coast, wherever a river-mouth offers the slightest shelter to vessels loading; for the redwood forests line the coast up to and beyond ...

— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff

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