WordDictionary

Noun:

• A burden; a weight to be carried.
• A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
• A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight.
• A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
• electrical engineering Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
• electrical engineering The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
• engineering The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
• figuratively A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase ''a load off one's mind''.
• in plural (''colloquial'') A large number or amount.
• sometimes|extremely|vulgar A slang term for semen.
• The volume of work required to be performed.

Verb:

• intransitive (''computing'') To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
• transitive baseball To fill the bases with runners
• transitive (''computing'') To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
• especially of dice To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome. Often used figuratively, to indicate the gaining of an advantage.
• transitive To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
• transitive To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
• transitive 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.
• transitive|occasionally intransitive To put a load on (something).