loading bay — see under ↑bay2 • • • Main Entry: ↑load * * * loading bay UK US noun [countable] [singular loading bay plural loading bays … Useful english dictionary
load|ing — «LOH dihng», noun. 1. the act of a person or thing that loads: »Freight car loadings continue to slack off (Newsweek). 2. Electricity. the introduction of additional inductances, as to a telephone circuit or an antenna. 3. an addition to the net… … Useful english dictionary
load — [lōd] n. [ME lode < OE lad, a course, way, journey < Gmc * laidō, way < IE base * leit(h) , to go, leave > LEAD1, ON litha, Goth galeithan, to go: sense infl. by ME laden, LADE] 1. something carried or to be carried at one time or in… … English World dictionary
load — [[t]lo͟ʊd[/t]] ♦♦♦ loads, loading, loaded 1) VERB If you load a vehicle or a container, you put a large quantity of things into it. [V n] The three men seemed to have finished loading the truck... [V n with n] Mr. Dambar had loaded his plate with … English dictionary
Loading coil — In electronics, a loading coil or load coil is a coil (inductor) that does not provide coupling to any other circuit, but is inserted in a circuit to increase its inductance. The need was discovered by Oliver Heaviside in studying the… … Wikipedia
load — load1 [ loud ] noun *** 1. ) count something that a person or animal carries, especially a large amount of things: The men were struggling with their heavy loads. a ) count the goods that a vehicle carries: load of: She drove back from the farm… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
load — I UK [ləʊd] / US [loʊd] noun Word forms load : singular load plural loads *** 1) [countable] something that a person or animal carries, especially a large amount of things The men were struggling with their heavy loads. a) [countable] the goods… … English dictionary
load — load1 W3S2 [ləud US loud] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(amount of something)¦ 2 a load (of something) 3 a bus load/car load/truck load etc 4 a load of crap/bull etc 5¦(work)¦ 6¦(worry)¦ 7¦(washing)¦ 8 get a load of somebody/something 9¦ … Dictionary of contemporary English
load — /loʊd / (say lohd) noun 1. that which is laid on or placed in anything for conveyance. 2. a. the quantity that can be or usually is carried, as in a cart: to take several loads to the tip. b. (often in compounds such as carload, truckload) this… …
load — A sales charge paid by an investor in some mutual fund shares or annuities. The sales charge may be a front end charge, a back end charge, or a 12b 1 charge. Also, an expression used to describe a mutual fund that imposes sales charges on… … Financial and business terms
load — 1 noun (C) 1 AMOUNT OF STH a large quantity of something that is carried by a vehicle, person etc: Take this load of wood over to the barn. see also: shed its load shed 2 (8) 2 a load/loads (of sth) informal especially BrE a lot of something: We… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English