load

load is a 4-letter English word with 24 senses as verb, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. verb. 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.
2. verb. 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. verb. That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.
4. verb. 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. verb. The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.
6. verb. Weight or violence of blows.
7. verb. The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
8. transitive verb. 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.
9. transitive verb. To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.
10. transitive verb. To magnetize.
11. noun. goods carried by a large vehicle

    Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, loading, payload, shipment

12. noun. weight to be borne or conveyed

    Synonyms: burden, loading

13. noun. electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
14. noun. 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

15. noun. an onerous or difficult concern

    "the burden of responsibility"

    "that's a load off my mind"

    Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus

16. noun. a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks

    Synonyms: lode

17. noun. the power output of a generator or power plant
18. noun. an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate

    "he got a load on and started a brawl"

19. noun. a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time

    "the system broke down under excessive loads"

    Synonyms: loading

20. verb. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones

    "adulterate liquor"

    Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, stretch

21. verb. fill or place a load on

    "load a car"

    "load the truck with hay"

    Synonyms: lade, laden

22. verb. provide (a device) with something necessary

    "He loaded his gun carefully"

    "load the camera"

    Synonyms: charge

23. verb. put (something) on a structure or conveyance

    "load the bags onto the trucks"

24. verb. transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory

Synonyms

cargo, consignment, freight, lading, loading, payload, shipment, burden, warhead, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus, lode, adulterate, debase, dilute, stretch, lade, laden, charge

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in load:

alod, dalo, dola, odal

Common word forms

loads, loaded, loaden, loader, loading, loadable, loadless

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