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L0215000 (lōd)n.1. a. A weight or mass that is supported: the load on an arch.b. The overall force to which a structure is subjected in supporting a weight or mass or in resisting externally applied forces.2. a. Something that is carried, as by a vehicle, person, or animal: a load of firewood.b. The quantity that is or can be carried at one time.3. a. The share of work allocated to or required of a person, machine, group, or organization.b. The demand for services or performance made on a machine or system.4. The amount of material that can be inserted into a device or machine at one time: The washing machine has a full load.5. a. A single charge of ammunition for a firearm.b. Vulgar Slang An ejaculation of semen.6. a. A mental weight or burden: Good news took a load off my mind.b. A responsibility regarded as oppressive.7. The external mechanical resistance against which a machine acts.8. Electricity a. The power output of a generator or power plant.b. A device or the resistance of a device to which power is delivered.9. A fee that a mutual fund charges to an investor when the investor purchases or redeems shares in the fund.10. often loads Informal A great number or amount: There were loads of people at the parade.11. Derogatory Slang A heavy or overweight person.12. Genetic load.v. load·ed, load·ing, loads v.tr.1. a. To put (something) into or onto a structure or conveyance: loading grain onto a train.b. To put something into or onto (a structure or conveyance): loaded the tanker with crude oil.2. To provide or fill nearly to overflowing; heap: loaded the table with food.3. To give worries or difficulties to; weigh down; burden: was loaded with responsibility.4. To insert (a necessary material) into a device: loaded rounds into the rifle.5. To insert a necessary material into: loaded the printer with paper.6. Games To make (dice) heavier on one side by adding weight.7. To charge with additional meanings, implications, or emotional import: loaded the question to trick the witness.8. To raise the power demand in (an electrical circuit), as by adding resistance.9. To increase (an insurance premium or mutual fund share price) by adding expenses or sale costs.10. Baseball To have or put runners on (first, second, and third base).11. Computers To transfer (data) from a storage device into a computer's memory.v.intr.1. To receive a load: Container ships can load rapidly.2. To charge a firearm with ammunition.3. To put or place a load into or onto a structure, device, or conveyance.4. Computers To be transferred from a storage device into a computer's memory.Idioms: get a load of1. Slang To look at; notice.2. To listen to: Get a load of this! have a load on Slang To be intoxicated. take a load off To sit or lie down.

[Middle English lode, alteration (influenced by laden, to load) of lade, course, way, from Old English lād; see leit- in Indo-European roots.]

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(ləʊdz) pl n (often foll by of) a lot: loads to eat. adv(intensifier): loads better; thanks loads.

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loads - a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, lots, oodles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads, pileslarge indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude

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(in structural mechanics), force actions that produce changes in the stress-strain state of the components of buildings and structures. The following loads are distinguished according to the nature of their changes over time: static loads, whose place of application, direction, and intensity are assumed in calculations to be independent of time or to change so slowly that the resulting forces of inertia may be disregarded, and dynamic loads, whose magnitude, direction, and site of application change so rapidly that forces of inertia must be taken into account in calculations.

Static loads are divided into constant (or dead) loads, which in calculations of any given system are assumed to have constant action (the empty weight of structures, ground pressure, and so on), and intermittent (or live) loads, which may or may not be taken into account in calculations, depending on their significance for the structure in question. Intermittent loads are in turn divided into short-term traveling loads, which change their position (loads resulting from the congregation of people on the floors of buildings or from automobiles and trains on the spans of bridges), and long-term fixed loads (for example, the weight of stationary equipment and of racks and bins in warehouses).

The following loads are distinguished according to the nature of application to the body on which they act: concentrated loads, which are applied to a very small area (point), and spread loads, which are applied to an entire surface (line) or part of it. Spread loads are characterized by the intensity—that is, by the limiting ratio of the magnitude of the resultant load, distributed over a given surface or line, to the magnitude of the area or line on which it is acting, if the latter tends toward zero. A spread load of constant intensity is said to be uniformly spread. A spread load whose points of application occupy an entire surface or section is called a continuous, or distributed, load.

In calculations of structures by the method of limiting states, a distinction is made between rated loads, which are established by design standards and correspond to the conditions of normal use of the structure, and design loads, which are determined with reference to possible deviations from conditions of normal use of the structure. In cases of simultaneous action of several loads, the least favorable design load combination is determined; it corresponds to the critical value of the force or displacement arising in the elements of the structure or installation.

REFERENCE

Stroitel’nye normy ipravila. Part 2, sect. A, ch. 11: “Nagruzki i vozdeistviia: Normy proektirovaniia.” Moscow, 1962.

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noun a large number or amount

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