Noun

• S: (n) load, loading, burden (weight to be borne or conveyed)
• S: (n) load, loading (a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time) "the system broke down under excessive loads"
• S: (n) loading (the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift)
• S: (n) cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment (goods carried by a large vehicle)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) loading (the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.) "the loading took 2 hours"

Verb

• S: (v) load, lade, laden, load up (fill or place a load on) "load a car"; "load the truck with hay"
• S: (v) load, charge (provide (a device) with something necessary) "He loaded his gun carefully"; "load the camera"
• S: (v) load (transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory)
• S: (v) load (put (something) on a structure or conveyance) "load the bags onto the trucks"
• S: (v) load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase (corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones) "adulterate liquor"