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Load can be a verb or a noun.

load used as a verb:

  1. To put a load on (something).
    "The dock workers refused to load the cargo onto the ship."
  2. To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
    "I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun."
  3. To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
    "Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting."
  4. (computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
    "Click OK to load the selected data."
  5. (computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
    "This program takes an age to load."
  6. To fill the bases with runners
    "He walks to load the bases."
  7. To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome. Often used figuratively, to indicate the gaining of an advantage.
    "You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview."
  8. To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

load used as a noun:

  1. A burden; a weight to be carried.
    "I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack."
  2. A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
  3. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
    "The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil."
  4. (colloquial) A large number or amount.
    "I got loads of presents for my birthday!"
  5. The volume of work required to be performed.
    "Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?"
  6. The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
    "Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons."
  7. The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
    "I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high."
  8. Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
    "Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals."
  9. A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight.
  10. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
  11. A slang term for semen.
    "Yeah, she was suckin' on me and I blew my load right in her face."

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is load?

As detailed above, 'load' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: The dock workers refused to load the cargo onto the ship.
  2. Verb usage: The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.
  3. Verb usage: I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
  4. Verb usage: Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.
  5. Verb usage: Click OK to load the selected data.
  6. Verb usage: This program takes an age to load.
  7. Verb usage: He walks to load the bases.
  8. Verb usage: You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.
  9. Verb usage: The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
  10. Noun usage: I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
  11. Noun usage: The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
  12. Noun usage: She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
  13. Noun usage: I got loads of presents for my birthday!
  14. Noun usage: I got a load of emails about that.
  15. Noun usage: Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
  16. Noun usage: Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
  17. Noun usage: I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
  18. Noun usage: Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
  19. Noun usage: Yeah, she was suckin' on me and I blew my load right in her face.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of load are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of load, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

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