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LOADING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.
Example:
the loading took 2 hours
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("loading" is a kind of...):
handling (manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something)
Antonym:
unloading (the labor of taking a load of something off of or out of a vehicle or ship or container etc.)
Derivation:
load (fill or place a load on)
load (put (something) on a structure or conveyance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Goods carried by a large vehicle
Synonyms:
cargo; consignment; freight; lading; load; loading; payload; shipment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("loading" is a kind of...):
merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Weight to be borne or conveyed
Synonyms:
burden; load; loading
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("loading" is a kind of...):
weight (an artifact that is heavy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loading"):
burthen (a variant of 'burden')
dead load (a constant load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) due to the weight of the supported structure itself)
live load; superload (a variable load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) such as moving traffic)
millstone (any load that is difficult to carry)
overburden; overload (an excessive burden)
overload (an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
Example:
the system broke down under excessive loads
Synonyms:
load; loading
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("loading" is a kind of...):
indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loading"):
trainload (quantity that can be carried by a train)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("loading" is a kind of...):
ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loading"):
power loading (the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its engine power)
span loading (the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its wingspan)
wing loading (the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its wing area)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb load
Context examples:
Previous work found that mechanical loading during a period of rapid growth conferred lifelong benefits in bone size and strength in rodent models.
(Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits, NIH, US)
I know, also, that they were all three away from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has been loading their cargo.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A rabbit-skin sleeping-robe, a muzzle- loading rifle, and a few pounds of sun-dried salmon constituted his outfit.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
But the Cornell scientists are interested in long-term fatigue life, or how many cycles of loading a bone can bear before it breaks.
(Discovery may lead to osteoporosis treatment, National Science Foundation)
This project aims to improve our understanding of the land-use practices that play a part in potentially far-reaching changes, and to sharpen predictions of atmospheric dust loading from the Southern Hemisphere.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
Vaterite has special properties that make it a potentially superior carrier for medications due to its high loading capacity, high uptake by cells and its solubility properties that enable it to deliver a sustained and targeted release of therapeutic medicines to patients.
(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)
Of old the Hospadars would not repair them, lest the Turk should think that they were preparing to bring in foreign troops, and so hasten the war which was always really at loading point.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Given the extent of nitrogen loading along our coastlines, it is imperative that we better understand the resilience of salt marsh systems to nitrate, especially if we hope to rely on salt marshes and other blue carbon systems for long-term carbon storage, the authors write.
(Salt marshes' capacity to store carbon may be threatened by nitrogen pollution, National Science Foundation)
Loading the nanoparticles into the microdroplets allows us to control the shape and size of the clusters, giving us dramatic colour changes, said Dr Andrew Salmon from Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, the study’s co-first author.
(Colour-changing artificial ‘chameleon skin’ powered by nanomachines, University of Cambridge)
Yet, so far have you been from answering my expectation in any of your letters; that on the contrary you are loading our carrier every week with libels, and keys, and reflections, and memoirs, and second parts; wherein I see myself accused of reflecting upon great state folk; of degrading human nature (for so they have still the confidence to style it), and of abusing the female sex.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
