<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo.</li><li>The quantity that can be or usually is carried at one time, as in a cart.</li><li>This quantity taken as a unit of measure or weight or a discrete quantity (usually used in combination): carload; wagonload.</li><li>The quantity borne or sustained by something; burden.</li><li>The weight supported by a structure or part.</li><li>The amount of work assigned to or to be done by a person, team, department, machine, or mechanical system; workload.</li><li>Something that weighs down or oppresses like a burden; onus.</li><li>The charge, projectile, etc., for a firearm.</li><li>A commission charged to buyers of mutual-fund shares.</li><li>Engineering. Any of the forces that a structure is calculated to oppose, comprising any unmoving and unvarying force dead load, any load from wind or earthquake, and any other moving or temporary force live load.</li><li>Electricity. The power delivered by a generator, motor, power station, or transformer.</li><li>A device that receives power.</li><li>Geology. The burden of sediment being carried by a stream or river.</li><li>Slang. A sufficient amount of liquor drunk to cause intoxication.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>To put a load on or in; fill: to load a ship.</li><li>To insert a charge, projectile, etc., into (a firearm).</li><li>To supply abundantly, lavishly, or excessively with something (often followed by down): They loaded us down with gifts.</li><li>To weigh down, burden, or oppress (often followed by down, with, on, etc.): to feel loaded down with responsibilities.</li><li>To place (film, tape, etc.) into a camera or other device.</li><li>To take on as a load: a ship loading coal.</li><li>To add to the weight of, sometimes fraudulently.</li><li>To increase (the net premium) by adding charges, as for expenses.</li><li>To add additional or prejudicial meaning to (a statement, question, etc.).</li><li>To overcharge (a word, expression, etc.) with extraneous values of emotion, sentiment, or the like.</li><li>Baseball. To have or put runners at (first, second, and third bases).</li><li>To place a large amount of pigment on (a brush).</li><li>To bring (a program or data) into main storage from external or auxiliary storage.</li><li>To make (an aspect of a program or website) visible, audible, playable, or otherwise executable.</li><li>To place (an input/output medium) into an appropriate device, as by inserting a disk into a disk drive.</li><li>To add (a power-absorbing device) to an electric circuit.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Computers. Of or relating to the process of making an aspect of a program or website visible, audible, playable, or otherwise executable.</li></ul><p><strong>Adverb</strong></p><ul><li>Loads, Informal. Very much; a great deal: Thanks loads.</li></ul>