单词 | payload |
释义 | payloadn. 1. a. A load carried by a vehicle; esp. the part of a load from which revenue is derived; passengers, cargo, etc.See also paying load n. at paying adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [noun] > of loads > a load ladec897 seamc950 lastOE burdena1000 charge?c1225 load?c1225 burnc1375 draughta1400 summerc1400 portage1445 pauchlea1450 fraughtc1450 freightc1503 loadinga1513 carriage1597 ballast1620 cargo1657 porterage1666 freightage1823 smalls1846 journey1859 send-off1909 payload1914 society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > passengers and cargo carried by aircraft payload1914 1914 Trans. Soc. Automotive Engineers 9 ii. 126 The truck..was designed to carry a pay-load of 5000 pounds. 1920 Motor West 1 Jan. 60/1 The pneumatic cord tire is working radical changes in the construction of motor trucks by permitting a much heavier pay-load to be carried on lighter weight trucks. 1920 Everyday Engin. Mag. Oct. 83/1 Carrying a pay load of 1,000 lbs., and with its fuel tanks filled, it [sc. the new Gallaudet Biplane] rose recently to an altitude of 15,000 feet. 1930 Times 13 Mar. 16/3 The question of aircraft pay depended on the payload which could be carried. 1938 Nation (N.Y.) 13 Aug. 144/1 The trucks have to carry all their own gas, oil, and water..which does not leave much room for pay load. 1951 ‘N. Shute’ Round Bend 145 They pulled out a revised crew accommodation..and added a hundred and ten pounds to the payload. 1967 G. F. Fiennes I tried to run Railway vii. 84 We have the pay load of some 500 tons transferred between road and rail by some six men. 1978 J. B. Hilton Some run Crooked xiii. 132 Once the water~table overflows, there are gullies adding their pay-load from both sides. 1987 Canad. Geographic Dec. 42/2 The aristocrats of the waterways were..the northmen who wintered in the fur country and delivered the payloads. 2000 R. W. Holder Taunton Cider & Langdons xvi. 84 Another source of trimming costs was by reducing..the miles covered by the vehicles without a payload. b. Astronautics. The load (as a manned capsule, a set of instruments, etc.) transported by a rocket or other space vehicle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > rocket > [noun] > in relation to payload > payload payload1952 1952 Flying Mag. Dec. 44/2 The payload, control room, and crew space will be contained in the top or final stage [of the rocket]. 1955 Times 6 Aug. 6/1 The payload would be instruments capable of recording conditions outside the atmosphere and a telemetering apparatus to transmit findings to base. 1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics iv. 121 Sounding rockets..with 50-lb payloads designed to analyze the results of these atomic explosions. 1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 22 Oct. 7/1 In 1972, former President Richard Nixon..promised that NASA would launch all foreign payloads intended for peaceful purposes under basically the same conditions that apply in the United States. 1988 Flight Internat. 17 Dec. 17/1 The new crew selections confirm that payload specialist scientists will fly on space-lab science missions. 1994 Washington Post 19 Mar. a3/2 The first nine days of the mission were dedicated to materials science research involving five remotely operated payload bay experiments. 2. The loading capacity of a vehicle. ΚΠ 1920 Automotive Industr. 19 Feb. 527/1 The initial trucks had a pay load of 7000 lb. as compared with a chassis and body weight of 15800 lb. 1927 Times 9 Feb. 10/5 Research into the question of producing a comfortable machine rather than one showing the highest pay load. 1955 Sci. Amer. Jan. 38/2 Helicopter designers are now busily engaged in harnessing jet engines to helicopters to raise their speed, range and payload. 1970 H. A. Taylor Airspeed Aircraft since 1931 170 It is practicable to use short, lightweight loading ramps which can be carried in the aircraft with a minimum loss of space and payload. 1992 In-Fisherman Feb. 4 (advt.) Today's Dodge trucks..can deliver more payload, towing and horsepower than Ford, Chevy or any import. 3. Military. The load of explosives carried by an aircraft or missile. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > aircraft weapons or equipment > [noun] > bombs carried by aircraft payload1939 1939 Archit. Rec. Jan. 51/2 The modern warplane..has so greatly increased its ‘payload’ that whole cities can be demolished in a single raid—viz., Guernica. 1946 J. P. Baxter Scientists against Time ii. 35 Allied scientists and intelligence officers racked their brains to determine what would be the pay load in these long-range missiles. 1977 Guardian Weekly 25 Sept. 19/2 The launch controller punched the destruction button and the rocket with its payload was automatically destroyed. 1981 McGraw-Hill's Biotechnol. Newswatch (Nexis) 7 Dec. 6 [The Sendai virus's] own nucleic acid payload is a supercoil of RNA. 1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life ii. i. 108 Bombers occasionally dropped a real payload that rattled the windows. 4. Computing. a. The part of the code of a virus or other item of malware which causes the (typically malicious) effects on a system; (also) the malicious effects themselves. ΚΠ 1989 A. Lundell Virus! ii. 39 Viruses are composed of two distinct parts, the delivery system and a payload, or warhead. 1995 New Scientist 9 Sept. 6/1 Many viruses also carry a ‘payload’, or set of instructions that can cause havoc by damaging data files. 2012 S. Anson et al. Mastering Windows Network Forensics & Investig. (ed. 2) i. ii. 53 Examples of payloads include adding a user account, providing an interactive command prompt, or running software of the hacker's choice. b. The actual information or message contained in a set of transmitted data, as opposed to automatically generated data such as a header; cf. body n. 6k. ΚΠ 1990 Network World 26 Feb. 39/2 Some of the many topics left for further study include: header format and size, payload type, error detection and correction, [etc.]. 2002 S. Hagen IPv6 Essent. x. 235 The original packet, including its header, becomes the payload of the encapsulated packet. 2008 Max. PC July 63/1 A jumbo frame is an Ethernet frame carrying more than 1,500 bytes of payload. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1914 |
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