Crossword clues for offload
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of offloading something, or diverting it elsewhere. 2 (context rugby English) The act of passing the ball to a team mate when tackled. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to unload 2 (context transitive English) to get rid of things, work, or problems by passing them on to someone or something else 3 (context transitive lang=en aviation travel) to deny a person on a standby list due to lack of space. 4 (context transitive lang=en aviation travel) to change a passengers' ticket status from "checked in" to "open", allowing further changes. (This applies regardless of whether the passenger has boarded the aircraft or not).
WordNet
v. transfer to a peripheral device, of computer data
take the load off (a container or vehicle); "unload the truck"; "offload the van" [syn: unload]
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "offload".
His gaze fell on Sleipnir and Grani, being offloaded from the adjacent drakar.
Nor was there anything for it but to halt the entire column while sweating, blaspheming drivers and infantrymen offloaded the vehicles, jacked them up and set about fitting on spare axles.
Late the next morning, the colonel and the captain of the H-ship were on Terex, wearing civilian clothes for disguise, and talking to a Major Brouvaird, the officer in charge of Space Force Offloading Center 2 Terex.
Major Brouvaird, from the Offloading Center, emerged from under the table with the other Space Force officers, stared around, and let loose a string of awed profanity.
Two men, working overtime, and offloading a truck, had noticed the wheeled goddess approaching and had staged a mock attack, rushing at the bicycle with outstretched hungry hands.
Lynn and a platoon of Third Brigade troopers offloaded twelve hundred bales of barbed-wire into the roofless tractor sheds.
The Sherlock and the Watson floated alongside the offloaded actinium waiting for a lighter to arrive and recover the stolen merchandise.
About a third of the cargo would be offloaded in Alkazar because it could be transshipped inland as easily from there as from Pyron, and the rest would be dropped off at the Pyron stop as usual.
They offloaded with frenzied haste, piling everything in a heap and spreading over it the green nylon nets designed for shading young plants from the sun that Craig had found in Francistown.
Mere yards from India ships offloading spices and calico into small boats that slipped through the drawbridges to the Damrak, cattle grazed.
A cluster of girls and Foppl himself stood at the door, while the farm's Bondels offloaded the Cape cart and Mondaugen reported the situation.
She'd load four hundred and fifty-six thousand tons of crude oil over a period of less than a day, then steam back out of the Persian Gulf, turn southeast for the passage around India, then transit the crowded Malacca Strait past Singapore and north to the huge and newly built oil terminal at Shanghai, where she'd spend thirty or forty hours offloading the cargo, then retrace her journey back to the Gulf for yet another load in an endless procession.
Half the oil from the Ustinov was already offloaded, but spilling half a million barrels of crude oil into the Black Sea would certainly qualify as the world's biggest oil spill, more than double the size of the enormous Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
The two females went into action as soon as they parked, offloading and setting up two large tents, connecting them into some sort of control boxes buried in the ground, then setting up what proved to be an ingeniously designed portable kitchen including refrigerated and frozen foods, cold drinks, and everything else they needed.
Some bloody, broken, moaning teenagers were being offloaded from a white ambulance with blue dome lights, and wheeled through the double doors into a corridor glare of fluorescence so strong and white it made the blood look black.