Load

n.	1.	A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load. He might such a load To town with his ass carry. - Gower.
	2.	The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.
	3.	That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.
	4.	A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.
	5.	The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.
	6.	Weight or violence of blows.
	7.	(Mach.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
	8.	The amount of work that a person, group, or machine is assigned to perform; as, the boss distributed the load evenly among his employees.
	9.	(Elec.) The device or devices that consume power from a power supply.
	10.	(Engineering) The weight or force that a structural support bears or is designed to bear; the object that creates that force. Load line (Naut.) the line on the outside of a vessel indicating the depth to which it sinks in the water when loaded.
v. t.	1.	To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon. [imp. & p. p. Loaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Loading. Loaden is obsolete, and laden belongs to lade.] I strive all in vain to load the cart. - Gascoigne. I have loaden me with many spoils. - Shak. Those honors deep and broad, wherewith Your majesty loads our house. - Shak.
	2.	To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.
	3.	To magnetize. Loaded dice dice with one side made heavier than the others, so that the number on the opposite side will come up oftenest.

Noun	1.	load - weight to be borne or conveyed Synonyms: loading, burden
	2.	load - a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads" Synonyms: loading
	3.	load - goods carried by a large vehicle Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, shipment, payload, loading
	4.	load - an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate; "he got a load on and started a brawl"
	5.	load - the power output of a generator or power plant
	6.	load - an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, onus, incumbrance
	7.	load - a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks Synonyms: lode
	8.	load - the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents Synonyms: payload, warhead
	9.	load - electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
Verb	1.	load - fill or place a load on; "load a car"; "load the truck with hay" Synonyms: load up, lade, laden
	2.	load - provide with munition; "He loaded his gun carefully" Synonyms: charge
	3.	load - put (something) on a structure or conveyance; "load the bags onto the trucks"

1.		load - To copy data (often program code to be run) into memory, possibly parsing it somehow in the process. E.g. "WordPerfect can't load this RTF file - are you sure it didn't get corrupted in the download?" Opposite of save.
2.		load - The degree to which a computer, network, or other resource is used, sometimes expressed as a percentage of the maximum available. E.g. "What kind of CPU load does that program give?", "The network's constantly running at 100% load". Sometimes used, by extension, to mean "to increase the level of use of a resource". E.g. "Loading a spreadsheet really loads the CPU". See also: load balancing.
3.		load - To install a piece of software onto a system. E.g. "The computer guy is gonna come load Excel on my laptop for me". This usage is widely considered to be incorrect.

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