Crossword clues for loading
loading
- Putting weight on?
- Kind of dock
- Goods carried by a large vehicle
- Put (something) on a structure or conveyance
- Provide with munition
- The ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift
- A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- Weight to be borne or conveyed
- Fill by packing tightly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Load \Load\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Loading. Loaden is obsolete, and laden belongs to lade.]
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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.
I strive all in vain to load the cart.
--Gascoigne.I have loaden me with many spoils.
--Shak.Those honors deep and broad, wherewith Your majesty loads our house.
--Shak. To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine. [Cant]
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To magnetize. [Obs.]
--Prior.Loaded dice, dice with one side made heavier than the others, so that the number on the opposite side will come up oftenest.
Loading \Load"ing\, n.
The act of putting a load on or into.
A load; cargo; burden.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The action of the verb '''to load'''. 2 (context countable English) A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted, or electrical current or power supplied. 3 (context Australia industrial relations countable English) A hourly pay rate given to a casual employee which is higher than an equivalent full-time or part-time employee, usually paid to compensate for a lack of benefits such as sick or annual leave. vb. (present participle of load English)
WordNet
adj. designed for use in loading e.g. cargo; "a loading dock"; "a loading chute is used to drive cattle into a truck or other conveyance" [syn: loading(a)] [ant: unloading]
a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads" [syn: load]
the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift
goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, payload, shipment, consignment]
the labor of loading something; "the loading took 2 hours" [ant: unloading]
Wikipedia
Loading is the act of placing a force or burden upon an object or network.
More specifically, loading may refer to:
In biology:
- Carbohydrate loading, a strategy employed by endurance athletes to maximize the storage of glycogen in the muscles
- Creatine loading, a phase of use of Creatine supplements
- Vocal loading, the stress inflicted on the speech organs when speaking for long periods
In engineering:
- Application of a structural load to a system
- Disk loading, the pressure maintained over the swept area of a helicopter's rotor
- Seismic loading, one of the basic concepts of earthquake engineering
- Wing loading, the loaded weight of an aircraft divided by the area of its wing
- Loading characteristic, a measure of traffic on a telephone system
- Insertion of an electrical load into a circuit
- Use of a loading coil to increase inductance
- Loading (computing), the process in which the contents of an executable file are read into a computer's memory
Other uses:
- Task loading, the number of tasks taken on by a diver
Usage examples of "loading".
After loading in his few remaining possessions, Alec and Talrien carefully lifted Seregil into the bottom of the boat.
She found him standing beside an open cart supervising the loading of several wooden crates in addition to the bandbox containing her new wardrobe.
The short drop downriver to the loading wharf at Woolwich passed off uneventfully, and Lieutenant Kaye by what miracle no one knew was there before them, and had bespoke a berth and loaders, even a launch to help tow and nudge the Biter in, all sail doused beforehand, no need for kedges, all smart and shipshape enough for the greatest stickler in the land.
There would only be the skipper up there, unless Bittle or Bloem or perhaps the Tiger himself happened to have gone up to watch the loading from that point, and even against those odds the girl felt capable of keeping her wicket up, if she could only find a weapon.
He walked Bonfire up and down the wooden loading ramp, getting him used to entering and leaving a van, which would be so much a part of his racing life.
From the corner of his eye, he could see that Bowland had crossed the courtyard and was supervising the saddling of their mounts, and the loading of their gear.
But it would be impossible to compress the history of such places as Bruges, Ypres, Furnes, or Nieuport within the limits of a few pages, except at the cost of loading them with a mass of dry facts.
Remo had forced Bugget to drag all the bodies from inside and dump them around the loading dock.
Remo had forced Bobby Bugget to haul from the warehouse were still arranged outside the loading dock.
Down below the loading detail dived out to pick up the clips in the lull, and the bugler ran back to the megaphone.
This was his story: two of his ships had been loading at a Black Sea port called Caffa when the Tartars arrived.
In the combi and cargo configurations, the nose can be fitted as a door to facilitate the loading of long and bulky articles.
Can also be used to charge to the primary coolant system by air loading with high pressure air.
He ran to the nearest town, some thirty miles away, and, in less than two hours after his arrival, got a job loading produce for the Enwood Market.
All the while that Fayle was using the tank, he was loading the room with a deadly gas, which we later attributed to the exhaust of the motor itself.