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▪ I. load, n.|ləʊd|
Forms: 1 lád, 3–6 lode, 5 lod, 5–6 lood(e, 6–7 loade, 6– load. β. north. and Sc. 4–9 lade, 5–9 laid, (5 layde).
[OE. lád fem., way, course, journey, conveyance, corresp. to OHG. leitâ course, leading, procession (MHG., mod.G. leite), ON. leið way, course:—OTeut. *laiđā (whence *laiđjan to lead), related to *līþan to go (OE. líðan, ON. líða). The development of meaning has been influenced by the association of the n. with lade v.; in extreme northern dialects this word is not distinguishable from lade n.1 The words load and lode are etymologically identical; the present article includes only those senses in which the mod. spelling is load, and obs. senses akin to these.]
†1. Carriage. Also, an act of loading. Obs.
c1000Laws Northumbr. Priests c. 55 in Schmid Gesetze 368 Sunnandæᵹes cypinge we forbeodað..and ælc weorc, and ælce lade, æᵹðer ᵹe on wæne ᵹe on horse ᵹe on byrdene. c1380Sir Ferumb. 2703 Wanne þe barouns it i-knewe what þay in lode hadde. c1440Promp. Parv. 310/2 Loode, or caryage, vectura. 1523Fitzherb. Bk. Husb. §25 The more hey maye be loded at a lode, and the faster it wyll lye.
2. a. That which is laid upon a person, beast, or vehicle to be carried; a burden. Also, the amount which usually is or can be carried; e.g. cart-load, horse-load, wagon-load.
a1225Ancr. R. 268 Ȝif a miracle nere..heo hefde iturpled mid him, boðe hors & lode, adun into helle grunde. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 187/80 He let nime platus of Ire..wel neiȝ ane cartes lode. a1300[see cart-load]. 1375Barbour Bruce viii. 467 Thai kest thair ladis doun in hy. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 642 My laid war I laith to lois. 1483Cath. Angl. 206 A layde, a burdyn. 1582–8Hist. James VI (1804) 125 Sundrie cariers baith of hors and laides. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. ii. 64 æneas bare a liuing loade; Nothing so heauy as these woes of mine. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 113 By strapping the load round the shoulders of the person, who is to bear it. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop i, Where some halt to rest from heavy loads. 1882Rep. to Ho. Repr. Prec. Met. U.S. 99 In January, 1881, 11 car⁓loads from the mine yielded $190.
b. The specific quantity of a substance which it is customary to load at one time; hence, taken as a unit of measure or weight for certain substances.
The equivalence of a load varies considerably according to the locality and to the substance. As a measure, a load of wheat is usually 40 bushels, of lime 64 (in some districts 32) bushels, of timber 50 cubic feet, of hay 36 trusses (= 18 cwt.), of bulrushes 63 bundles, of meal 2 bolls (Sc.). A load of lead ore (in the Peak, Derbyshire) = 9 dishes (see dish n. 6 c).
1384–5Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 390 In iij ladys calcis empt. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 2060 Of stree first ther was leyd ful many a lode. 1409Durham Acc. Roll in Eng. Hist. Rev. XIV. 529, xii lodas continentes ccmxl petras ferri. 1458Nottingham Rec. II. 220, xl. lod de Baseford ston. 1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 230 A loode of lyme from Havant. a1533Ld. Berners Huon cxliii. 532 Mo then .x. lode of thornes were caryed out to brenne the noble lady. 1550Crowley Epigr. 501 A lode [of coals] that of late yeres for a royall was solde. 1570Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) I. 344 Ane laid of quheit, ane laid of beir, ane laid of aitts. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 50 The Load of Lead is 175 ll. 1709J. Ward Introd. Math. i. iii. (1734) 37 Nine of those Dishes they [sc. Derbyshire lead⁓miners] call Load of Ore. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. M j b, Three Loads five Dishes will be full enough to make up one Ton Weight. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 105 Hay, the Load of 36 Trusses, each Truss 56 lbs. 1825Cobbett Rur. Rides 194 This rick contains..what they call in Hampshire ten loads of wheat, that is to say, fifty quarters, or four hundred bushels. 1887Rogers Agric. & Prices V. 255 The load..at Appleby..is [c 1700] for peas, rye and wheat 4 bushels, of [sic] barley and bigg 5 bushels. 1887Cunningham's Diary (Scot. Hist. Soc.) Introd. 18 Though no longer carried on horseback, a load of meal still means two bolls. 1898Daily News 16 June 7/2 Wheat futures are usually dealt with in ‘loads’. A load is a thousand quarters.
c. The material carried along by a stream in suspension, by saltation, or by traction (by some writers material carried in solution is included); the amount of material so carried; hence, by extension, the material carried by various other natural agents of transportation, as glaciers, winds, and ocean currents.
1888J. W. Powell in Science 16 Nov. 229/2 In erosion and corrasion the material which is transported may be called the ‘load’. The load is transported by two methods, a portion floats with the water, and another portion is driven along the bottom. 1907R. D. Salisbury Physiogr. iv. 122 The sediment moved by a stream, whether in suspension or at the bottom, is its load. 1950W. H. Twenhofel Princ. Sedimentation (ed. 2) vi. 226 These figures show that the suspended loads of rivers draining dry areas are larger than the dissolved loads. Ibid. 227 The loads of standing bodies of water are small in terms of any unit of volume... There is not a great deal of information respecting loads in the open ocean away from shallow water. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 627/2 Load is an additional variable which changes together with flow along a stream wherever it is joined by a tributary. 1970Jrnl. Glaciol. IX. 227 (heading) Contrast between the debris loads of polar and temperate glaciers.
3. a. A material object or a force, which acts or is conceived as a weight, clog, or the like.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen VI, i. ii. 2 Why droopes my Lord like over-ripen'd Corn, Hanging the head at Ceres plenteous load? 1667Milton P.L. iv. 972 Farr heavier load thy self expect to feel From my prevailing arme. Ibid. v. 59 O fair Plant..with fruit surcharg'd, Deigns none to ease thy load and taste thy sweet? 1698J. Keill Exam. Th. Earth (1734) 273 The great River of the Amazons..runs up to the Equator with a vast load of Waters. 1725N. Robinson Th. Physick 260 Bleeding..lessens the additional Quantity of Blood, and removes its Load. 1832–52I. Murray in Whistle-Binkie (Scot. Songs) Ser. iii. 43 The hazle bushes bend nae mair Beneath the lades that crushed them sair. 1842A. Combe Physiol. Digestion (ed. 4) 361 If we eat more than the system requires, the bowels become..weakened by their load. 1852Beck's Florist Dec. 273 The luxuriance and profusion, I may say the loads of bloom.
b. The charge of a fire-arm.
1692Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. xii. 108 What quantity of Powder will be a sufficient Load for such a Piece. 1813Sporting Mag. XLII. 141 A gun with but one barrel..will, by a single operation on the trigger, discharge six or eight loads in succession. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Load, the charge of a gun.
c. Electr. The resistance to a dynamo or motor of the machinery which it drives, apart from its own friction.
1895Thompson & Thomas Electr. Tab. & Mem. 57 If the dynamo is run at constant speed, the motor also will run of itself at nearly constant speed, whatever its load. Ibid. 82 Lifting Power of Magnets.—The rule is:—Load = a × the square of the cube root of the magnet's own weight.
d. Building. The pressure caused by gravity upon a structure or any part of it.
1871R. S. Ball Exper. Mech. xi. 172 A structure has to support both its own weight and also any load that may be placed upon it. Thus a railway bridge must at all times sustain what is called a permanent load, and frequently, of course, the weight of one or more trains. 1879Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 49 The columns..are..proportioned in thickness to their load, irrespective of their height.
e. Phys. The amount of resistance to be overcome by the contraction of a muscle.
1894Starling Elem. Hum. Physiol. 94.
f. Electr. Engin. The electric power that a generating system is delivering or required to deliver at any given moment; base load, the minimum value of the load during any period, generally met (in a grid system) by the continuous operation of the most efficient stations, without the intermittent and varying contribution of the less efficient ones.
In the earliest quots. identical with 3 c.
1888Proc. Inst. Mech. Engin. Oct. 508 The efficiency of its working was limited to a constant load and a uniform speed, as when the dynamo was supplying a constant current with constant pressure. Ibid., In many electric lighting installations..motors were required that would work economically between wide variations of load. 1891Min. Proc. Inst. Civil Engin. CVI. 15 The cost of labour per unit..would continue to decrease as long as the duration of maximum load increased, up to a certain limit. 1894[see booster 2]. 1900Westm. Gaz. 22 May 2/1 Giving a day-load for traction and power and a night-load for light. 1903Electr. World & Engin. 23 May 866/2 It is necessary at times of fall and winter peak loads to operate the steam plants in the three combination sub-station and subsidiary steam plants which the company was operating three years ago. 1928Daily Express 4 June 15/3 We have, in twenty-six years, built up a huge base-load..with an annual output of over 25,000,000 units. 1956Nature 4 Feb. 204/2 The prospect of competitive nuclear power with low operating costs means that this plant will carry the base load. 1966Economist 14 May 734/1 Running charges have, since 1961, differed by day and by night, since costs for the best, base-load stations at night are so much lower than the average running costs in the mixed bag of stations, from good to awful, used by day. 1974Times 15 Jan. 14/3 A mass switch-off..which would record several million watts being wiped off the national energy load.
g. Electronics. An impedance or circuit that receives the output of a transistor or other device, or in which the output is developed.
1918Physical Rev. XII. 180 Variations in potential difference are set up between cathode and grid, and these cause variations in the current in the circuit FPR, the power developed in the load R being greater than that fed into the input circuit. 1931Proc. IRE XIX. 49 With the pentode..the maximum output was obtained at approximately a 10,000-ohm load. 1943C. L. Boltz Basic Radio xv. 243 In a receiver the load on the output is a loudspeaker or telephone. 1957B. I. & B. Bleaney Electr. & Magn. xiv. 362 In many applications the size of the load is fixed; if, for example, the load is a loud-speaker, its impedance..is generally in the range 5 to 15 ohms. 1962Simpson & Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors xi. 251 We require a current in the load of 2 mA. Ibid., Since Re1 is assumed to be by-passed by a capacitor, the a.c. load consists of Rc1 + Re1.
h. Colloq. phr. to take a load off (one's feet): to sit or lie down; to relax.
1945A. Kober Parm Me 35 How's about taking a load off your feet? 1968J. Hudson Case of Need iii. i. 175 ‘Sit down,’ she said. ‘Take a load off.’
4. fig.
a. A burden (of affliction, sin, responsibility, etc.); something which weighs down, oppresses, or impedes. Esp. in phr. (to take) a load off one's mind: (to bring someone) relief from anxiety.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. i. 157 Sharpe Buckingham vnburthens with his tongue, The enuious Load that lyes vpon his heart. 1599― Much Ado v. i. 28 Those that wring vnder the load of sorrow. c1646Milton Sonnet on Mrs. C. Thomson, Meekly thou didst resign this earthy load Of Death, call'd Life. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. ii. 265 Our life's a load. 1748Anson's Voy. Introd., When I consider..of how tedious, and often unintelligible, a load of description it [sc. drawing] would rid them. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 374 And all that freedom's highest aims can reach, Is but to lay proportion'd loads on each. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) II. xii. 206 From some people..a favour..is a load. 1791Burns Lament Earl Glencairn v, I bear alane my lade o' care. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 175 So did they give the heir the privilege of laying the load upon the personal estate. 1851D. Jerrold St. Giles xiv. 141 With this thought, a load was lifted from the old man's heart. 1852Lytton My Novel (1853) III. x. vi. 132 It is a load off one's mind. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 400 His spirit..sank down under the load of public abhorrence. 1857Dickens Perils Eng. Prisoners iii, in Househ. Words Extra Christmas No., 7 Dec. 31/2 It takes a load off my mind to leave her in your charge. 1951E. Caldwell Episode in Palmetto vii. 136 It's a big load off my mind to hear you say that.
b. slang. An occurrence of venereal disease; = dose n. 2 d. Cf. load v. 4 (quots. 1799, 1818).
[1878N. & Q. 10 Aug. 105/1 Load, an eruption, measles, smallpox.] 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 488/1 Load, a venereal infection. 1965F. Sargeson Mem. Peon ii. 28 They displayed their rubber goods, and..were doubly protected against finding themselves landed with either biological consequences or a load.
c. An amount of work, teaching, etc., to be done by one person; freq. with defining word prefixed, as case-load, teaching-load, work-load.
1946Nature 17 Aug. 216/2 The scientific study of conditions affecting the work-load involved in various processes. 1950, etc. [see case-load s.v. case n.1 14]. 1958J. C. Herold Mistress to an Age (1959) iii. xiv. 294 His teaching load amounted to three and a half hours daily for five days a week. 1961Lancet 5 Aug. 303/1 He cemented the relationships by careful inquiry into examinations and study load. 1964in Rep. Comm. Inquiry Univ. Oxf. (1966) II. 450 Please give as accurate estimates as you can for your average weekly load this term. 1966Ibid. 465 A quarter were critical of the heavy teaching load with its consequent adverse effects on research. 1971Black Scholar Jan. 64/2 (Advt.), Normal load is 6 courses per year. 1971Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 18 Dec. 56/2 Teaching loads at white schools often are only a fraction the size of those at black schools.
5. a. As much as one can ‘carry’ of drink; (one's) fill; phr. to have (or have taken), to get one's load, to have a load, etc. (now esp. with on); also, a satisfying amount to eat; (U.S.) a dose of narcotics. slang. †b. to give (a person) his load: to beat soundly.
1598Lodge & Greene Looking Glass Lond. H 2 b, Ply it till euery man hath tane his load. 1678Ray Prov. 87 Proverbiall Periphrases of one drunk... He has a jagg or load. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables, Life æsop (1708) 16 The Cups went round, and Xanthus by this Time had taken his Load, who was mightily given to talk in his Drink. Ibid. clvii. 173 There are Those that can never Sleep without their Load. 1694Echard Plautus 188 Give him his load so as he shan't b' able to find the way home. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 369 Then we drank,..The General leapt about..a little while; but having his Load soon went to sleep. 1890Century Dict. s.v., He went home late with a load on. 1897Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang II. 22/1 A man who walks unsteadily, owing to intoxication, is said to have a load on. 1902Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., To get one's load, to be drunk. 1922Joyce Ulysses 160 After their feed with a good load of fat soup under their belts. 1929J. B. Priestley Good Companions i. i. 26 You've got a load on and no mistake. 1929[see bang n.3]. 1934J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) vii. 202 What a load you had. Did you get home all right? 1942Wodehouse Money in Bank (1946) xxvi. 229 Drunk!..He's got a load on that would sink an ocean liner. 1948V. Palmer Golconda ix. 65 We're not to blame if men get a load on and begin to fight. 1968C. Nicole Self Lovers ii. 38 I'm sorry about last night. I was carrying a load. Else I'd have recognised you.
c. Mech. (See quots.)
1855Ogilvie, Suppl. s.v., In mech. an engine or other prime mover is said to be loaded when it is working to its full power, and the quantity of work it is then doing is called its load. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Load, the amount of work done by an engine worked up to its capacity. Not to be confounded with duty.
6. loads (also a load): a great number or quantity (esp. of something desirable or nonsensical), ‘lots’, ‘heaps’. colloq.
With the earlier quots. cf. cart-load b.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. i. 22 Loades a grauell i' th' backe, Lethargies, cold Palsies, and the like. 1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 205 There is a loade of newes. 1852Clough Poems, etc. (1869) I. 183 Sunday.—Loads of talk with Emerson all morning. 1860Edkins Chinese Scenes (1863) 73, I was very much pleased to get all the home letters on Monday last—This mail I had loads. 1943C. H. Ward-Jackson Piece of Cake 41 Load of guff, a lot of humbug or nonsense. 1964[see crap n.1 7 b]. 1965, etc. [see cod, abbrev. of codswallop]. 1967Jazz Monthly Dec. 12 Playing a load of rubbish, while sounding quite competent to the casual listener. 1968[see cobbler 1 c]. 1974A. Morice Killing with Kindness iv. 38 No man is an island... That's what Mike used to say. Mind you, I always thought it was a load of rubbish.
7. Phrases. (Obs. in a–d.)
a. to lay on load: to deal heavy blows (occas. to lay load about or about one); fig. to speak with emphasis or exaggeration; to emphasize (the fact) that..; to exaggerate, ‘lay it on thick’; also, to be extravagant in expenditure. Also, to lay on load of reproaches.
b. to lay load on or upon: to belabour with blows; also fig. to blame, reproach.
c. to lay (or cast) the load: to throw the blame.
d. to lay on by load: to heap or pile on.
e. Phr. to get a load of (freq. imp.): to look at, perceive, make oneself aware of, scrutinize; to listen carefully to. slang (orig. U.S.).
a.c1537Thersites (Roxb. Club) 51, I wyll..laye on a lode with this lustye clubbe. 1579Churchyard Gen. Rehearsal Wars K j b, He strake diuers of the Almaines..and laiyng loade about hym, he made such waie that the gate was free. 1580Fulke Dang. Rock 169 He layeth on lode, that Luther and Caluines authoritie is not like to Christes. 1586Warner Alb. Eng. i. vi. (1589) 19 The Danter then of Trespassers..laies lustie lode about. 1587Mirr. Mag., Cæsar xxviii, They fell from wordes to sharpe, and layde on loade amayne. 1589Nashe Martins Months Minde To Rdr., Wks. (Grosart) I. 163 Who being both but newelie come to their Fathers lands and goods,..lay on such loade, and spend al their leudnes so fast. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. ix. 22 So dreadfull strokes each did at other drive, And laid on load with all their might and powre. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus' Ann. ii. iv. (1622) 37 They should..lay on thicke load; and strike at their faces with their swords. 1611Cotgr., Exaggerer, to exaggerate, aggravate, lay on load. 1613Day Festivals viii. (1615) 234 They lay on load of bitter Reproaches against it. a1620J. Dyke Sel. Serm. (1640) 211 Satan will be busie to lay on loade, and to affright a man with Hell and damnation. 1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian vii. 57 They raile and scoff when er'e he comes abroad, And of his lewd behaviour laies on Load. 1677Miege Eng.-Fr. Dict. s.v., They laid much load upon that expression, ils exaggererent beaucoup cette expression. 1832S. Ferguson Forging of Anchor 22 Leap out, my masters; leap out and lay on load.
b. [c1435: see lade n.1] c1550Wever Lusty Juventus D ij, Lay lode on the flesshe, what so euer befal You haue strength Inough to do it with all. c1560Ingelend Disobed. Child (? 1570) F j, [Stage direction] Here the wyfe must laye on lode vppon her Husbande. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. Eng. (1807) I. 466 They laid load vpon the Romans with their arrowes and darts. 1647H. More Song of Soul i. iii. v, The vast thumps of massie hammers noise, That on the groning steel laid on such lode. 1679Dryden Œdipus i. i. Dram. Wks. 1725 IV. 378 Lay load upon the Court; gull 'em with Freedom. 1683Temple Mem. Wks. 1731 I. 429 The Dutch began to lay Load upon their Allies, for their Backwardness. 1697Dryden æneid ix. 1097 Mnestheus lays hard load upon his Helm.
c.a1715Burnet Own Time (1724) I. 251 The load of that marriage was cast on Lord Clarendon. Ibid. (1734) II. 565 It was moved to lay the Load of that Matter on him.
d.1546J. Heywood Prov. (1562) 64 He makth you beleue, by lies laide on by lode.
e. [1929D. Hammett Dain Curse (1930) xix. 217 The red⁓head nurse was getting a load at the keyhole.] 1929D. Runyon in Hearst's International Oct. 64/1, I am not so sure..Blake will care to be anybody's husband, and especially Madame La Gimp's after he gets a load of her. 1941I. Baird He rides Sky 143 What do you think would have happened if Queen Bess had got a load of the Air Force? 1958E. Dundy Dud Avocado i. ix. 157 Come over here... Get a load of this script. 1966[see casting-couch s.v. casting vbl. n. 4]. 1972D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xxii. 221 Get a load of that chick over there.
8. attrib. and Comb., as load goods, load-hauling, load wagon; load-bearing, load-carrying adjs.; load-carrier, a vehicle with the capacity to accommodate a load; load cast Geol., a rounded protrusion on the underside of a stratum (usu. one of sandstone), owing to its having sunk before consolidation into the underlying bed (which is usu. shale); so load-casted a., modified or covered by a load cast; load-casting, the formation of load casts; load-cell, an electronic device for weighing large quantities of material; load displacement, draught, the displacement or draught of a vessel when laden; load factor, the ratio of the average to the maximum amount of work, power, etc., of consumption to productive capacity, etc.; also, in Aeronaut., (a) the ratio (or its reciprocal) of the weight of an aircraft to the maximum the wings can support, or that of the force exerted on a part of the structure in ordinary horizontal flight to that exerted in some other condition; (b) the ratio of the number of passenger seats occupied to the number available; † load-horse, a pack-horse; load line, (a) = load-water-line; (b) Electronics, a straight line that crosses the characteristic curves (of output voltage against output current) of a valve or transistor and has a gradient and position determined by the load, so that it represents the possible operating conditions of the device; † load-man, a man who bears or has charge of a load; † load-mark-line = load-line; load-penny Hist., a market due anciently levied on loads; † load-pin, a bar inserted into the side of a wagon, to increase its capacity; load-rail, -tree, a broad rail fixed across the middle of a certain kind of corn or hay cart; load-shedding, a temporary curtailment of the supply of electricity to a specific area to prevent excessive load on the generating plant; also transf. and fig.; also load-spreading. Also load-saddle, -water.
1925Hull & Ingberg Fire Resistance of Concrete Columns 658 Pittsburgh gravel concrete was used in the *load-bearing portion and cinder concrete from bituminous cinders in the outer portion. 1947Horizon Oct. 63 No columns or load-bearing walls intervene. 1961Architect & Building News 21 June 822/1 The building has massive load-bearing walls facing on to the Fellows' Garden and the College Park. 1974Times 18 Feb. 12 Facilities include such items as load-bearing ceiling girders.
1962Times 3 May 19/4 The rear seat can be folded flat to convert the car into an exceptionally roomy *load-carrier. 1974Country Life 21 Nov. 1579/3 A very comfortable car and a handy load carrier.
1611Cotgr. (1632) Sommier..any toyling, and *load carrying, drudge, or groome. 1895Westm. Gaz. 14 June 1/3 The fire-resisting material and the load-carrying material. 1960R. W. Marks Dymaxion World of B. Fuller 55/1 For this reason the truss has an enormous load-carrying ability.
1953P. H. Kuenen in Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists XXXVII. 1048 The base is sharply cut and flat or forms pockets in its substratum, ‘flow casts’ in Shrock's terminology (1948). As this term tends to cause confusion it is here suggested to call them ‘*load casts’. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles v. 101 Sedimentary structures, including flute casts, load casts, graded bedding, etc., have been described from the arenites.
1957Jrnl. Geol. LXV. 248/1 (heading) *Load-casted current markings. 1972F. J. Pettijohn et al. Sand & Sandstone iv. 123 Load-casted ripples.
1953Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists XXXVII. 1051 They were not formed after deposition by *load casting. 1972F. J. Pettijohn et al. Sand & Sandstone iv. 124 If one turbidite flow follows on the heels of another, conditions are more favorable for load-casting.
1958Engineering 28 Feb. 39 (Advt.), A standard range of *loadcells designed for industrial weighing.
1884Daily News 9 Oct. 5/7 The Rodney..has a *load-displacement of 9,740 tons.
1898Ibid. 12 Apr. 6/6 Her displacement at *load draught will be 15,000 tons.
1891R. E. B. Crompton in Min. Proc. Inst. Civil Engin. CVI. 3 What, for want of a better term, is hereafter called the ‘*load-factor’, that is, the relation which the actual output of a plant..bears to what would be its output if worked continuously day and night, at the full load. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 916 The load factor of the heart, the ratio between its average and its maximum work, is ample. 1899Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 4/1 The ‘load factor’, the proportion between the hours of daily consumption and the productive power. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXX. 21/2 The ‘load factor’ is the number of times the weight of the craft which the wings will support; a measure of the strength. 1943Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XLVII. 195 Allowing for the 65 per cent. load factor which seems to be about the maximum that can be expected on any commercial service under normal peace⁓time conditions, that would call for an aircraft providing accommodations for 57 passengers. 1950Load factor [see limit load s.v. limit n. 5]. 1962Times 16 May 15/3 The passenger load factor (the proportion of passenger capacity used) dropped by 1·7 per cent. to 48·1 per cent. 1970D. Waterfield Continental Waterboy iii. 29 The B.C. Power Commission has a load factor of around 52%.
1890Daily News 8 Nov. 5/7 When he left the camp of the Rear Guard he told them that they must not lose their *load goods.
1902Daily Chron. 16 Jan. 3/2 *Load-hauling and gradient-climbing. 1568*Loode horse [see loader1 1].
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 254 Of *Load or Pack Horses.
1884H. Spencer in Pop. Sci. Monthly XXIV. 727 A compulsory *load-line for merchant-vessels. 1898Westm. Gaz. 4 June 8/1 The operation of the load-line tables, which was so dear to the late Mr. Plimsoll. 1901Scotsman 5 Mar. 7/8 Light loadline bill. This bill..provided for the marking of a second load-line..to indicate the minimum depth to which a vessel might be immersed in water when she was in ballast. 1931Proc. IRE XIX. 49 The maximum output will be obtained when the slope of the load line equals minus the slope of the plate current curve. 1962Simpson & Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors vii. 140 The straight line passing through the battery-voltage point..has a slope (-1/Rl) corresponding to the resistance Rl of the load and is called the load line.
1375Barbour Bruce viii. 466 The *layd-men that persauit weill, Thai kest thair ladis doun in hy. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 11 Lode men, and bere brewers.
1711W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 91 The Line a. d. is termed the deep *Load-mark Line.
1883Green Conq. Eng. ix. 440 The gift of its [sc. Worcester's] market-dues, wain-shilling and *load-penny, was the costliest among the many boons which æthelred and æthelflæd showered on Bishop Werfrith.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 137 They..putte the shelvinges, and *loade-pinnes, and pike-stowers, of everie waine into her body.
1851Stephens Bk. Farm. (ed. 2) II. 357 The *load⁓rail, 9 inches broad, is convenient to sit upon in driving, and to stand upon when forking the sheaves in unloading.
1947Times 10 Feb. 2/2 If the saving that was essential was not forthcoming the company would have to resort to *load shedding or temporary cuts in supply. 1948Ann. Reg. 1947 8 The cuts in coal and the ‘load-shedding’—a term now incorporated into the vocabulary of the citizen—were due to ‘the wretched private coal-owners'. 1963Guardian 29 Apr. 8/6 Lord Longford has announced his resignation as chairman... This is part of the load-shedding of some of his extensive social work.
1951Engineering 6 Apr. 402/2 Electricity *load spreading..necessary..owing to heavy demand for electricity.
1851Stephens Bk. Farm. (ed. 2) II. 357 The *load-tree or rail.
1659Hoole tr. Comenius' Orbis Sensualium (1672) 173 A Wagon, which is either a Timber-Wagon or a *Load-Wagon.
Restrict † Obs. to sense 1a and add: [1.] b. Computing. [f. the vb.] The action of loading a program, etc., into memory; an instance of this. Usu. attrib.
1962Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 42 Load program,..An input routine for reading programs. 1967E. R. Lannon in Cox & Grose Organiz. Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 87 The Load which actually updates the system files. 1969J. Hellwig Introd. Computers & Programming (ed. 2) vi. 172 What does a linkage editor do? It prepares your program for execution, by creating what may be called a load module. 1977W. S. Davis Operating Syst. ii. 22 Another program, a linkage editor or loader.., performs a number of functions needed to prepare the program for execution on the computer and produces a load module. Ibid. vii. 103 The asterisk indicates that the phase is to be loaded at the first available location in the partition. This load address can be specified in a number of different ways. 1986ZX Computing Monthly Oct. 12/1 In one load, the game gives you access to any of the 12 world championship tracks, including Silverstone.
[2.] d. A quantity of items washed or to be washed in a washing machine or dishwasher at one time.
1926People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 22/1 (Advt.), In fifteen minutes or less, the entire load, of 10–1/2 pounds of dry clothes, is immaculately washed and blued. 1935D. Myerson Homemaker's Handbk. v. 46 In the first load, place sheets, pillowcases, and other garments which are not being boiled or hand-rubbed. 1946Consumers' Res. Bull. Feb. 10/3 The maximum load for the machine is 9 pounds of clothes. 1959Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring/Summer 907/1 Kick-out switch..signals when load is unbalanced. 1972Which? Jan. 16/1 We based our loads on the size of the wash drum. 1991Consumers Digest Dec. 111/2 You won't need a liquid-fabric-softener dispenser, of course, if you only plan to use fabric-softener sheets in dryer loads.
[3.] h. under load Mech., subjected to a load (esp. in senses 3 a, c, and d above).
1893B. Willis in 13th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Survey II. 250 In strata under load an anticline arises along a line of initial dip, when a thrust, sufficiently powerful to raise the load, is transmitted by a competent stratum. 1928E. Buckingham Spur Gears xii. 444 Hardened gears are sometimes run together under load with some form of abrasive introduced with the lubricant to smooth the surfaces and correct some of the errors. 1946W. H. Crouse Automotive Mech. xviii. 413 The gears that are under load when the noise is produced should be examined. 1983J. S. Foster Structure & Fabric (rev. ed.) I. iii. 14/1 The overall behaviour of structures under load. 1988Pract. Motorist Mar. 24/4 Whine is the noise..associated with rear axles, whether under load or on the over-run.
▸ coarse slang (orig. U.S.). An ejaculation of semen. Esp. in to blow (also shoot, etc.) one's load and variants: to ejaculate; (also fig.) to exhaust completely one's energy, abilities, etc.
1928Classic Bk. Dirty Jokes (1981) 90 Dropped one load. Got my hard on. 1979A. N. Groth Men who Rape iv. 129 He reached a climax and blew a load into my mouth. 1987Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 4 Nov. 25 c/4 It was like I blew my load my freshmen year, then last year, I passed out when I was a sophomore. 2000Lett. to Penthouse X 204 My load pumped into Tansy's cunt. 2001AXM Aug. 122 You can just about trust a man to be interested in you until he's shot his load.
▪ II. load, v.|ləʊd|
Forms: 5–6 lode, 6 loade, 6– load. pa. pple. (6 lode, 7 load), 7– loaded. strong 6–7 loden, 6–8, 9 dial. loaden.
[f. load n. The strong pa. pple. loaden was formed on the analogy of laden.]
1. a. trans. To put a load on or in; to furnish with a burden, cargo, or lading; to charge with a load. Freq. in pa. pple. loaded († loaden) with = laden with, having a load of. loaded down: weighed down with a load.
1503S. Hawes Example of Virtue i. 19 A shyp..with moche spyces ryght well lode. 1530Palsgr. 613/1, I lode a carte..This horse is not halfe loden. 1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. Ep. Ded. (Arb.) 43, I haue ben streaking me (like a lubber) when the sunne did shine, and now I striue al in vaine to loade the cart when it raineth. 1579Fenton Guicciard. vii. 398 Sundrie boates and lighters loaden with prouisions. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. (1676) 808 Deploring his condition that his horse being loaden could not run fast. 1775T. Hutchinson Diary 1 Jan. I. 339 A large Dutch ship..loaden with tea. 1847A. M. Gilliam Trav. Mexico 57 The water-carrier loaded down with the weight of his earthen-vessels. 1865Trollope Belton Est. ii. 15 The men were loading another cart. 1867W. W. Smyth Coal & Coal-mining 154 Trams, weighing when loaded 25 to 32 cwt. each.
b. intr. (for refl.). Of a vehicle: To fill with passengers.
1832Examiner 346/2 Last week the coach travelled nearly empty..[Now] the coach loads better than ever. 1893Times 4 May 12/2 This coach always loads well.
2. a. To place on or in a vehicle as a load for transport; to put on board as cargo; † to carry (hay, etc.). In quot. 1495 transf. † Also with in, out.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxix. 790 Castors..laye one of them vpryght on the grounde..and layeth and lodyth the styckes and wode bytwene his legges and thies and draweth him home to their dennes. 1523Fitzherb. Bk. Husb. §22 He maye well lode oute his dounge before none, and lode heye or corne at after none. 1613in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 184 Ev'ie freeman may loade and carry goods from the waterside. 1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 415 The Dutch Ships which are to have Passports to load in France Wines, Brandy, and other Goods. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton v. (1840) 89 We..fetched our luggage, and loaded it.. into the canoes. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Untry'd Earth, Dung..is accordingly loaded in at a great Expence, more particularly in making an Asparagus-Bed. 1743T. Jones in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 402 The whole Army should..have their baggage loaded..in a readiness to march by break of day. 1900F. T. Bullen With Christ at Sea ii. 32 We were to load mahogany for home.
b. absol. or intr. To take in one's load or cargo. Also with up.
1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5836/4 Who has now a Ship loading thereof at St. Katherine's Dock. 1822J. Fowler Jrnl. (1898) 98, I then Con Cluded to load up and move on the Road Which We did and on loading up the Horses We find seven Hors loads of meet. 1857R. Tomes Amer. in Japan xvi. 368 The ‘Macedonian’ sailed for Manila..leaving the ‘Suppy’ to load with the coal purchased at Formosa.
3. a. To add or affix a weight to, to add to the weight of (something); to be a weight or burden upon; to bear down or oppress with a material weight; to weight, spec. to weight with lead (see loaded ppl. a.); to increase the resistance in the working of (a machine) by the addition of a weight. loaded with = supporting the weight of. † to load with earth: to bury.
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xlviii. 205 [The stalkes] being loden [with] litle flowers from the middle even up to the very top. a1625Beaum. & Fl. Bloody Bro. v. ii. (1639) I b, When thou hast loaden me with earth for ever. 1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 58 So their trees were more plentifully loaden with fruits. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xiv. 188 Some rich man of mean worth loaden under a tombe big enough for a Prince to bear. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 147 A circling row Of goodliest Trees loaden with fairest Fruit. 1697Dryden Virg. æneid x. 608 The Phrygian Troops escap'd the Greeks in vain, They, and their mix'd Allies, now load the Plain. 1711Addison Spect. No. 15 ⁋1 The coach was drawn by six milk-white horses, and loaden behind with the same number of powdered footmen. 1715–20Pope Iliad xviii. 548 The ponderous hammer loads his better hand. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 313 We were neither disordered nor even loaded by this repletion. 1793Beddoes Lett. Darwin 52, I eat one-third or one-fourth more than before without feeling my stomach loaded. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. x. 79 A bat loaded with lead. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 79 A machine may be so loaded as just to be in equilibrio with its work. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. x. 67 The fresh snow which loaded the mountain. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxiv. 304 Many a feast high-pil'd did load each table about them. 1892Starling Elem. Human Physiol. 84 The shortening is not very powerful, and can be prevented by loading the muscle moderately.
b. To adulterate by adding something to increase the weight of the article; to make (light or thin wine) appear full-bodied by adulteration.
1860–1[see loaded ppl. a. 2]. 1887Harper's Mag. June 120/1 If the paper is to be ‘loaded’, that is, adulterated with clay or cheap fibres.
c. Electr. To provide with additional inductance (e.g. by means of a loading coil) in order either to counteract the effect of capacitance and so reduce the distortion and attenuation of signals (in the case of a telephone line or other transmission line), or to reduce the resonant frequency (in the case of an aerial); more widely, to provide with a load (load n. 3 g) consisting of any kind of impedance.
1901M. I. Pupin in Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engin. XVII. 452 Though a given cord may be properly loaded for some wave-length it will not be properly loaded for shorter wave-lengths. 1922Glazebrook Dict. Appl. Physics II. 852/2 The effect of loading a line in such a way is approximately the same as though inductance were uniformly distributed along the circuit. 1923E. W. Marchant Radio Telegr. iii. 26 The frequency of the oscillation in the aerial can be varied by varying its inductance; that is, coils of copper tube may be inserted which will have the effect of ‘loading’ it, and so bringing down the frequency of the oscillations. 1962Newnes Conc. Encycl. Electr. Engin. 846/1 Some low-frequency lines are ‘loaded’ with added inductance to give some approximation to the distortionless condition. 1970J. Earl Tuners & Amplifiers iv. 82 Each source, whether it be radio tuner..or ceramic pickup or tape head, requires to be loaded by a specific value of impedance or within a range of impedance.
4. To supply in excess or overwhelming abundance with. Chiefly in pa. pple. loaded († loaden) with: charged, fraught, or heavily laden with; having an abundance of. Also to load up with (something).
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 7/1 The Danes, being loden with riches and spoiles..departed to their ships. 1611Bible Ps. lxviii. 19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth vs with benefits. 1674Brevint Saul at Endor 263 A Rich Noble-Man, notoriously loaden with Crimes. 1709Steele Tatler No. 69 ⁋1 If a Man be loaded with Riches and Honours. 1709Berkeley Th. Vision §71 The air..may be loaded with a greater quantity of interspersed vapours. 1716Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Bristol 22 Aug., The shops [are] loaded with merchandise. 1799M. Underwood Dis. Children (ed. 4) I. 288 When they have slept in the same bed with one loaded with it [i.e. small-pox]. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. v. 212 He returned to Moorshedabad, loaded with disease. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxiv, Old Torquil..loaded him with praises and with blessings. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 93 The air of London is so loaded with carbon. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad xxxviii. 435, I loaded them up with paragoric and put them to bed. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. vii. 138 He would have loaded her with gifts, had she been willing to accept them. 1892‘Mark Twain’ Amer. Claimant iii. 21 He loads up the house with cripples and idiots and stray cats. 1943K. Tennant Ride on Stranger (1968) i. 3 Other men get married without being loaded up with kids, kids, and then more kids.
5. a. To put the charge into (a firearm); also absol. to be loaded: (of a body of men) to have their arms charged.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 32 To loade a peece. 1688Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia v. Wks. 1720 IV. 105 [She snaps a pistol at Belfond] Belfond. Thank you, Madam; are you not a Devil? 'twas loaden. 1799Instr. & Reg. Cavalry (1813) 271 The same principle of reserving the fire with the front line, till the rear support is loaded. 1804W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. II. 262 Several pieces of heavy ordnance, loaden with grape-shot. 1841Thackeray Drum ii. xlv, They load and fire. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 1146 At one operation, these caps are loaded with fulminating-powder. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon I. 145 How many barrels are loaded?
b. To insert a photographic film or plate in (a camera); also with the film as object.
1902Year Bk. Photogr. 13 (Advt.), The ‘Roll Film’ Automan will be preferred by many on account of the ease with which it may be loaded and unloaded in daylight. 1936Discovery Aug. 237/1 This unique camera..weighs 305 pounds when loaded. 1956A. L. M. Sowerby Dict. Photogr. (ed. 18) 88 A long roll of film..was loaded into the camera at the factory.
c. To fill (a tobacco-pipe).
1927‘F. Lonsdale’ On Approval ii. 66 He crosses to stool down R, and loads his pipe.
6. fig.
a. To weigh down, burden, oppress (with something immaterial); to clog, encumber.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 232 b, He sholde..fixe them in his hert, lodyng & chargynge his memory with them. 15991st Pt. Ret. fr. Parnassus i. i. 360 And if I live, I'le make a poesie Shall loade thy future's yeares with infamie. 1605Camden Rem. (1637) 39 Neither are we loden with those declensions, flexions, and variations, which are incident to many other tongues. 1625Bacon Ess., Superstition (Arb.) 347 Ouer-great Reuerence of Traditions, which cannot but load the Church. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 5 Load with the filth of dallying Lust and Sin. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 418 And sturdiest Oaks Bow'd thir Stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts. 1777J. Adams in Fam. Lett. (1876) 272, I have been now for near ten weeks..constantly loaded with a cold. 1865J. H. Newman Gerontius §4 Lest so stern a solitude should load And break thy being. 1884A. R. Pennington Wiclif viii. 257 The frivolous vanities with which Confirmation was loaded, led him to speak in a disparaging tone of it.
absol.1593Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift 9 A frowne lodeth, and a smile lightneth; to frowne therefore kindly, is a barre to Iellocy: but loading crabbedly, men vndoe themselues speedily.
b. To overwhelm with abuse, reproaches, etc. † Also, to throw blame upon; to charge with something opprobrious.
1662W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. (1669) 296/2 A few silly men, loaden with the vilest reproaches that the wit of man could invent. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables xxv. (1708) 31 To be Loaden at every turn with Blows and Reproaches. 1697Dryden Virg. æneid xi. 335 These are the Crimes, with which they load the Name of Turnus. 1709Stanhope Paraphr. IV. 583 They Load his Doctrine with Imposture and Blasphemy. a1715Burnet Own Time (1734) II. 272 Every thing was acceptable there, that loaded that Treaty, and these Lords. Ibid. 564 The Design was now formed, to load the late Administration all that was possible. 1726Swift Gulliver iii. i, While the Dutchman..loaded me with all the curses and injurious terms his language could afford. 1901D. Smith in Expositor Oct. 282 An angry brother once loaded him with abuse.
7. a. To heap or pile on. rare.
1580Sidney Ps. ix. viii, Lord,..Ponder the paines which on me loaden be. 1671Milton Samson 1243 E're long thou shalt lament These braveries in Irons loaden on thee. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. iii, The more he sees I can do, the more he loads on.
b. Painting. To lay (colour) on thickly in opaque masses.
1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 228 In the foreground..the ‘impasto’ should be bold; but in the more brilliant lights, it can scarcely be ‘loaded’ too much. 18..Art Jrnl. N.S. XI. 10 (Cent.) Masses of white enamel are loaded upon the surface, with a view to further treatment.
8. intr.
a. To collect into a load or heap.
b. To become loaded or clogged.
1806–7A. Young Agric. Essex (1813) I. 139 The objection to so much concavity or flatness in the fore part of the breast,..is the loose earth of the furrow loading there. 1890Cent. Dict. s.v., Oysters are apt to load with sand.
9. a. refl. and intr. (Stock-exchange.) To buy heavily of stock. b. pass. to be loaded up: to have large quantities of a thing in hand as security.
1870J. K. Medbery Men & Mysteries Wall St. 136 To ‘load’ one's self with stocks is to buy heavily. 1885Pall Mall G. 8 June 5/2 One of those cornering cliques which are the curse of legitimate trade across the Atlantic appears to have loaded heavily on the chance of an outbreak. 1893Times 15 Aug. 7/4 No banking system could stand being loaded up with rye year after year.
10. Life Insurance. To increase (a premium) by adding a charge (called the ‘loading’) as a provision against contingencies or for other reasons; to charge (a particular life) with a ‘loaded’ premium. (Cf. loading vbl. n. 3.)
1867C. Walford Insur. Guide (ed. 2) 260 Table shewing the process of ‘loading’ rates of premiums: also affording a comparison between the English and Carlisle Rates loaded, and the Northampton net Rates. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. IV. 615 If the body-weight bear an undue proportion to the weight of the individual, such cases are either ‘loaded’ or declined as second or third class lives.
11. Psychol. To weight (a result or outcome), to contribute to or be correlated with; also intr. (const. on), to be correlated (with something else).
1931Psychol. Rev. XXXVIII. 408 The ministry is loaded high for interest in people and in language but low for science. 1952R. B. Cattell Factor Analysis xviii. 340 The factor loading (situational index) is not a measure of the mean amount of the contribution of the factor to the situation. For example, the discovery that in a certain collection of books, the factor of weight is loaded 0·6 in thickness and only 0·2 in height simply indicates that for a given weight (overall size) these books vary more in thickness than they do in height—as books on a tidy shelf should. 1970Liebert & Spiegler Personality vi. 132 As part of the factor analysis, the ratings on each of the 50 trait elements, on which the subjects were rated, were correlated with each of the factors which had been found... The elements which loaded (correlated) most highly both in a positive and in a negative direction (recall that the magnitude of a correlation is independent of its sign) are listed in Table 6–3. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXIV. 242 Both of these [test variables] were originally predicted to load the insight factor. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVIII. 190 The items loading on Factor I seem to reflect the parent's interests.
Senses 5b, c become 5c, d. Add: [5.] b. to be loaded for bear(s), to be well prepared for an anticipated confrontation, opponent, emergency, etc.; to be ready for anything; also (joc.) drunk; hence to be loaded (for), to be well prepared (for).
1888World (N.Y.) 19 Oct. 3/5 Ewing was loaded for bear and was just spoiling for a chance to catch somebody on the bases. 1890Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang II. 22/2 Loaded for bears (American),..signifies that a man is slightly intoxicated, enough to feel ready to confront danger. 1896Dialect Notes I. 420 Loaded for bear,..3. Said of one who has a big supply of anything... 4. Full of indignation which is likely to be vented upon its object. 1904F. Crissey Tattlings of Retired Politician 423, I caught a gleam in the tail of the President's eye that showed he had been loaded for his caller and had given him this shot with malice aforethought. 1937San Francisco Examiner 1 Dec. 22/3 (heading) Texans ‘loaded’ for Don contest. 1948San Francisco News 20 Sept. 15/6 Loyola, supposedly loaded,..was plagued by poor field generalship. 1957M. Shulman Rally round Flag, Boys! (1958) iv. 55 The O'Sheel woman is coming in loaded for bear this time. She's got some brand-new gimmick, and she's also got a lot of people on her side. 1982Verbatim Autumn 14/2 Don't we also know bright-eyed and bushy-tailed tigers who are always loaded for bear? 1989T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger x. 199 Christ, but they're loaded for bear, the colonel thought. Not wearing standard-issue uniforms.... Obviously a covert insertion..but they were clearly planning to stay awhile.
e. Computing. To transfer (a program or data) into memory, or into the central processor from a more remote part of memory.
1953Proc. IRE XLI. 1274/1 The last section showed how a new program may be loaded from tape, drums, or cards. 1965IBM Systems Jrnl. IV. 66 A file loader program is needed to load the test record system. 1973C. W. Gear Introd. Computer Sci. ii. 37 The CPU can be told to load a number into its accumulator from a specific cell in the memory. 1981D. Francis Twice Shy xviii. 210 She nodded, not lifting her eyes from the..job of loading Grantley Basic into a machine that would accept it. 1991Personal Computer World Feb. 100/2 If you load the program onto a naked machine, it looks for ‘spare’ memory high in the address map and leaves only 5k of itself in the normal address space.
f. To take up a quantity of paint, etc., on (a brush).
1978C. Hayes Compl. Guide Paint & Draw. Techn. viii. 132 (caption) Fully load the brush. 1984W. Wharton Scumbler (1986) xi.101, I squeeze the usual pigments, load my brush. 1986Do it Yourself June 10/2 To load the brush, dip about one third of the bristles into the paint. 1990M. Roberts In Red Kitchen (1991) 54, I cut lengths of lining paper, loaded my brush with paste, worked it to and fro until each long sheet was well coated.
12. Comb.load-and-go Computing, an operating technique in which the loading and execution of a program form one continuous process; usu. attrib.
1964Gloss. Data Processing & Communications Terms (Honeywell Inc.) 35/2 *Load-and-go.., an operating technique in which there are no stops between the loading and execution phase of a program, and which may include assembly or compilation. 1976A. Ralston Encycl. Computer Sci. 804/1 The load and go compiler compiles and executes these programs one at a time. 1983T. S. Frank Introd. PDP-11 & its Assembly Lang. ix. 208 The linker might even begin program execution of the load module, since it knows the program's transfer address. This is the so-called load-and-go mode of loading, editing and linking, which would be accomplished simply by MOVing the program's transfer address into the PC. 1991Nature 24 Jan. p. xx (Advt.), It features an Apple Macintosh II cx computer plus powerful ‘load and go’ software.
▪ III. load
obs. form of lode, lodh. |