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1941 Automobile Engineer 31 180/3 Owing to the substantial design of the housing it has not been found necessary to employ pre-loading of the bearings.

1971 B. Scharf Engin. & its Lang. xii. 137 Pre~loading is frequently used in high precision work and in order to ensure noiseless running.

1986 Nephron 44 70/1 We sought to determine the effects of bicarbonate preloading on the severity of renal impairment induced by renal artery clamping in the rat.

2003 Proc. 4th Mexican Internat. Conf. Computer Sci. 42/1 This approach of resource preloading in mobile computer permits the continuity of clients work.

2004 Middle East Jrnl. Anesthesiol. 17 818 After fluid preloading, 10 ml of bupivacaine 0.5% + 5 ml of prilocaine 0.5% + 1 ml of fentanyl 50 μg mL⁻¹ were administered.

2006 U.S. State News (Nexis) 14 Sept. One side effect of raising and enforcing the drinking age is that it ends up encouraging ‘preloading’ or ‘pregaming’—the students can't get drunk at the game, so they sit in their rooms quickly consuming large quantities of alcohol.

2011 J. S. Hoffman et al. Beyond Suppression 152 Drinking in excess is viewed as a rite of passage, and drinking events typically begin with heavy pre-party drinking known as ‘pre-loading’.

2015 Evening Chron. (Nexis) 21 Jan. 10 The small rises in crime in the city centre in our experience as pub managers is not related to the levy. Other factors are involved such as ‘preloading’ where customers are trying to get best value for themselves so drink at home.