load – English noun declension

English noun forms of load

Noun: load
Singularload
Pluralloads

Sample Sentences

  • I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
  • Our life's a load. [1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
  • I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you. [2005, Coldplay, Green Eyes:]
  • The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
  • She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
  • I put a load on before we left.
  • I got loads of presents for my birthday!
  • I got a load of emails about that.
  • Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
  • Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
  • I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
  • Connect a second 24-ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
  • If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay. [1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 172:]
  • With the thought he he arose and removed his rifle from its boot. He looked to its loads and saw that the magazine was full. Then he inspected his revolver. [1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 79:]
  • Far heavier load thyself expect to feel
  • From my prevailing arm [1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out of Robbie's crinkled but fleshy sphincter. [2006, John Patrick, Barely Legal, page 129:]
  • It felt so good, I wanted to just keep going until I blew a load down his throat, but I hadn't even seen his ass yet, and I sure didn't want to come yet. [2009, John Butler, Wanderlust, page 35:]
  • What a load!
  • All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.
  • This description represents a form of delay slot: the load operation takes some time to complete, say n cycles. Thus, the value loaded only becomes valid n cycles after the load seems to have executed and can therefore only be read after then. [2009, Daniel Page, A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture, page 614:]

Etymology

1. The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle English lode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old English lād (“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“leading, way”), Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to go, go forth, die”).
2. Cognate with Middle Low German leide (“entourage, escort”), German Leite (“line, course, load”), Swedish led (“way, trail, line”), Icelandic leið (“way, course, route”). As such, load is a doublet of lode, which has preserved the older meaning.
3. Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verb lade; however, Middle English lode occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verb load (“to charge with a load”) is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare),
4. and (except for the participle laden) has largely supplanted lade in modern English.
5. For the meaning development from PIE, compare Latin carrus (whence carry) akin to currō. See: Middle English Nouns 'lode', German Nouns 'Leite', Swedish Nouns 'led', Icelandic Nouns 'leið'.

Verbs referencing "load"

Irish Nouns lód.