Weight to be borne or conveyed.

synonyms: burden, loading.

Roget 830: painfulness etc. adj.; trouble, care etc. (pain) 828; trial; affliction, infliction; blow, stroke, burden, load, curse; bitter pill, bitter draught; waters of bitterness.    annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener^†; bore, bother, pother, hot water, sea of troubles" [Hamlet], hornet's nest, plague, pest.    cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn; canker etc. (bane) 663; scorpion etc. (evil doer) 913; dagger etc. (arms) 727; scourge etc. (instrument of punishment) 975; carking care, canker worm of care.    mishap, misfortune etc. (adversity) 735; desagrement [Fr.], esclandre [Fr.], rub.    source of irritation, source of annoyance; wound, open sore; sore subject, skeleton in the closet; thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side; where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood.    sorry sight, heavy news, provocation; affront etc. 929; head and front of one's offending" [Othello]. infestation, molestation; malignity etc. (malevolence) 907.    ... show more

Roget 52: completeness etc. adj.; completion etc. 729; integration; allness^†.    entirety; perfection etc. 650; solidity, solidarity; unity; all; ne plus ultra [Lat.], ideal, limit.    complement, supplement, make-weight; filling, up etc. v.. impletion^†; saturation, saturity^†; high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful^†; brimmer^†; sufficiency etc. 639.    ... show more

Roget 828: mental suffering, pain, dolor; suffering, sufferance; ache, smart etc. (physical pain) 378; passion.    displeasure, dissatisfaction, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet; malaise; inquietude, uneasiness, vexation of spirit; taking; discontent etc. 832.    dejection etc. 837; weariness etc. 841; anhedonia^†.    annoyance, irritation, worry, infliction, visitation; plague, bore; bother, botheration; stew, vexation, mortification, chagrin, esclandre [Fr.]; mauvais quart d'heur [Fr.].    care, anxiety, solicitude, trouble, trial, ordeal, fiery ordeal, shock, blow, cark^†, dole, fret, burden, load.    concern, grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, heartache; carking cares; heavy heart, aching heart, bleeding heart, broken heart; heavy affliction, gnawing grief.    unhappiness, infelicity, misery, tribulation, wretchedness, desolation; despair etc. 859; extremity, prostration, depth of misery.    nightmare, ephialtes^†, incubus.    pang, anguish, agony; torture, torment; purgatory etc. (hell) 982.    hell upon earth; iron age, reign of terror; slough of despond etc. (adversity) 735; peck of troubles; ills that flesh is heir to" etc. (evil) 619 [Hamlet]; miseries of human life; unkindest cut of all" [Julius Caesar]. sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn lamb.    ... show more

Roget 641: redundancy, redundance^†; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence^†, saturation; nimiety^†, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion etc. (plenty) 639; repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque [Lat.], lion's share; more than enough etc. 639; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener^†; turgescence etc. (expansion) 194^†; overdose, overmeasure^†, oversupply, overflow; inundation etc. (water) 348; avalanche.    accumulation etc. (store) 636; heap etc. 72; drug, drug in the market; glut; crowd; burden.    excess; surplus, overplus^†; epact^†; margin; remainder etc. 40; duplicate; surplusage^†, expletive; work of supererogation; bonus, bonanza.    luxury; intemperance etc. 954; extravagance etc. (prodigality) 818; exorbitance, lavishment^†.    pleonasm etc. (diffuseness) 573; too many irons in the fire; embarras de richesses [Fr.].    ... show more

Roget 319: gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness etc. adj.; specific gravity; pondorosity^†, pressure, load; burden, burthen^†; ballast, counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of.    lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion.    weighing, ponderation^†, trutination^†; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma^†, ounce, pound, lb, arroba^†, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod^†.    [metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram; nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram.    [Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge^†; spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance; postal scale, baby scale.    [Science of gravity] statics.    ... show more

Roget 735: adversity, evil etc. 619; failure etc. 732; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius^†; vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life; sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond.    trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure.    pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint; hard times, bad times, sad times; rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind; visitation, infliction; affliction etc. (painfulness) 830; bitter pill; care, trial; the sport of fortune.    mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune; disaster, calamity, catastrophe; accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub; backset^†, comedown, setback [U.S.].    losing game; falling etc. v.; fall, downfall; ruination, ruinousness; undoing; extremity; ruin etc. (destruction) 162.    ... show more

A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time:
— The system broke down under excessive loads.

synonym: loading.

Dutch: lading, gewicht, hoop
Polish: ładunek

Goods carried by a large vehicle.

synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, loading, payload, shipment.

Roget 190: contents; cargo, lading, freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag; cartload^†, shipload; cup of, basket of, etc. (receptacle) 191 of; inside etc. 221; stuffing, ullage.    ... show more

Roget 31: greatness etc. adj.; magnitude; size etc. (dimensions) 192; multitude etc. (number) 102; immensity; enormity; infinity etc. 105; might, strength, intensity, fullness; importance etc. 642.    great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap etc. (assemblage) 72; stock etc. (store) 636; peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload^†, wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance etc. (sufficiency) 639.    principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part; bulk, mass etc. (whole) 50.    ... show more

Dutch: lading, last, transport, vracht
Polish: transport, ładunek

An amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate.

The power output of a generator or power plant.

An onerous or difficult concern:
— That's a load off my mind.

synonyms: burden, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus.

Roget 706: prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage; embolus, embolism [Med.]; infarct [Med.]; interruption, interception, interclusion^†; hindrance, impedition^†; retardment^†, retardation; embarrassment, oppilation^†; coarctation^†, stricture, restriction; restraint etc. 751; inhibition etc. 761; blockade etc. (closure) 261.    interference, interposition; obtrusion; discouragement, discountenance.    impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, knot, knag^†; check, hitch, contretemps, screw loose, grit in the oil.    bar, stile, barrier; [barrier to vehicles] turnstile, turnpike; gate, portcullis.    beaver dam; trocha^†; barricade etc. (defense) 717; wall, dead wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne^†; bulkhead, block, buffer; stopper etc. 263; boom, dam, weir, burrock^†.    drawback, objection; stumbling-block, stumbling-stone; lion in the path, snag; snags and sawyers.    encumbrance, incumbrance^†; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel^†, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes^†, incubus, old man of the sea; remora.    difficulty etc. 704; insuperable etc. 471; obstacle; estoppel [Law]; ill wind; head wind etc. (opposition) 708; trammel, tether etc. (means of restraint) 752; hold back, counterpoise.    [person who hinders] damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy; party pooper [Coll.]; party crasher, interloper.    trail of a red herring; opponent etc. 710.    ... show more

Dutch: plicht, bewijslast, belasting, drang, druk, last, zwaarte

A deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks.

synonym: lode.

The front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents.

synonyms: payload, warhead.

Dutch: kernkop, springkop

Electrical device to which electrical power is delivered.

Dutch: heel wat, vermogen, belasting

Fill or place a load on:
— Load a car.
— Load the truck with hay.

synonyms: lade, laden, load up.

Roget 184: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant etc. (insert) 300; shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit^†; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in.    billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put up, bag.    inhabit etc. (be present) 186; domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher [Fr.], bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house.    endenizen^†, naturalize, adopt.    put back, replace etc. (restore) 660.    ... show more

Roget 641: superabound, overabound^†; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark etc. (go beyond) 303; surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize^†.    choke, cloy, accloy^†, suffocate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate with; lavish etc. (squander) 818.    send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens^†; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere [Lat.]; kill the slain, gild refined gold," gild the lily," butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut etc. (waste) 638.    exaggerate etc. 549; wallow in roll in etc. (plenty) 639; remain on one's hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging.    ... show more

Roget 636: store; put by, lay by, set by; stow away; set apart, lay apart; store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up; bank; cache; accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save.    reserve; keep back, hold back; husband, husband one's resources.    deposit; stow, stack, load; harvest; heap, collect etc. 72; lay in store etc. Adj.; keep, file (papers); lay in etc. (provide) 637; preserve etc. 670.    ... show more

Roget 319: be heavy etc. adj.; gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.    [Measure the weight of] weigh, poise.   

Provide (a device) with something necessary:
— He loaded his gun carefully.
— Load the camera.

synonym: charge.

Roget 52: be complete etc. adj.; come to a head.    render complete etc. adj.; complete etc. (accomplish) 729; fill, charge, load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out [Fr.], eke out; supply deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of; saturate.    go the whole hog, go the whole length; go all lengths.    ... show more

Dutch: laden

Transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory.

Put (something) on a structure or conveyance.

Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones.

synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, stretch.

Dutch: verdunnen