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1. Weight to be borne or conveyed
   - load, burden
    
2. A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
   - load
    
3. The ratio of the gross weight of an aeroplane to some factor determining its lift
    
4. Goods carried by a large vehicle
   - cargo, lading, freight, load, payload, shipment, consignment
    
5. The labour of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.
   "the loading took 2 hours"

1. Fill or place a load on
   "load the truck with hay"; "load a car";
   - lade [archaic], laden, load up
    
2. Provide (a device) with something necessary
   "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera";
   - charge
    
3. (computing) transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
    
4. Put (something) on a structure or conveyance
   "load the bags onto the trucks"
    
5. Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
   - adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase

Derived forms: loadings

Type of: corrupt, fill, fill up, handling, indefinite quantity, lay, merchandise, place, pose, position, product, put, ratio, set, spoil, transfer, ware, weight

Antonym: unloading

Encyclopedia: Loading