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load-bearing |
load-shedding |
loaded |
loaded down |
loader |
loading
| loading area
| loading dock
| loading zone
| loadmanage
| loads
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THESAURUS
loading
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun loading has 5 senses
- loading(n = noun.artifact) burden, load - weight to be borne or conveyed; Array has particulars: burthen, dead load, live load, superload, millstone, overburden, overload, overload
- loading(n = noun.quantity) load - a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads" is a kind of indefinite quantity
- loading(n = noun.linkdef) Array - the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift; Array is a kind of ratio
- loading(n = noun.artifact) cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, payload, shipment - goods carried by a large vehicle; Array is a kind of merchandise, product, ware
- loading(n = noun.act) Array - the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.; "the loading took 2 hours" is a kind of handling
is a kind of weight
has particulars: trainload
has particulars: power loading, span loading, wing loading
Derived forms verb load1, verb load4
Antonym: unloading
CIDE DICTIONARY
loading, n.
- The act of putting a load on or into. [1913 Webster]
- A load; cargo; burden. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
loading, n.
1 Electr. the maximum current or power taken by an appliance.
2 an increase in an insurance premium due to a factor increasing the risk involved (see LOAD v. 8).
3 Austral. an increment added to a basic wage for special skills etc.
1 Electr. the maximum current or power taken by an appliance.
2 an increase in an insurance premium due to a factor increasing the risk involved (see LOAD v. 8).
3 Austral. an increment added to a basic wage for special skills etc.
THESAURUS
loading
allocation, assignment, bale, bother, burden, burdening, burthen, cargo, charge, charging, collocation, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, demand, deployment, deposit, deposition, disposition, drag, emplacement, encumbrance, exaction, freight, freighting, handicap, imposing an onus, imposition, inconsiderateness, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, infliction, lading, laying on, load, loading down, localization, locating, location, millstone, obtrusiveness, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting, pressure, presumptuousness, putting, reposition, saddling, situation, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage, superincumbency, surcharge, tasking, taxing, trouble, unwarranted demand, weighting
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