Synonyms of the word

load

• n. A burden; a weight to be carried.
• n. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
• n. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
• n. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity…
• n. (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
• n. The volume of work required to be performed.
• n. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
• n. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
• n. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
• n. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
• n. A unit of measure for various quantities.
• n. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
• n. The charge of powder for a firearm.
• n. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
• n. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
• n. (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
• n. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
• v. (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
• v. (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
• v. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
• v. (intransitive) To receive a load.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
• v. (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
• v. (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a…
• v. (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
• v. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
• v. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
• v. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases.
• v. (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
• v. (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
• v. (transitive) To provide in abundance.
• v. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.

alluviation

• n. The deposition of alluvium (sediment) by a river.

burden

• n. A heavy load.
• n. A responsibility, onus.
• n. A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
• n. The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
• n. (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
• n. (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
• n. A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A birth.
• n. (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or the such present in an organism.
• v. (transitive) To encumber with a burden (in any of the noun senses of the word).
• v. To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
• n. (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
• n. The drone of a bagpipe.
• n. (obsolete) Theme, core idea.

cargo

• n. Freight carried by a ship, aircraft etc.
• n. (Papua New Guinea) Western material goods.

charge

• n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
• n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
• n. A load or burden; cargo.
• n. The amount of money levied for a service.
• n. An instruction.
• n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
• n. An accusation.
• n. An electric charge.
• n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
• n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
• n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
• n. A forceful forward movement.
• n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
• n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
• n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
• n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
• n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
• v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
• v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
• v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
• v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
• v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
• v. To impute or ascribe.
• v. To call to account; to challenge.
• v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
• v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
• v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
• v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

concern

• n. That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone. The adposition before…
• n. The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
• n. A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
• n. (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
• v. (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of;…
• v. (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
• v. (transitive) To make somebody worried.

consignment

• n. A collection of goods to be sent, in transit or having been sent.
• n. The act of consigning.

deposit

• n. Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material…
• n. That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care…
• n. (banking) Money placed in an account.
• n. Anything left behind on a surface.
• n. (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve…
• n. A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned,…
• n. A place of deposit; a depository.
• v. (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
• v. To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
• v. To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
• v. (transitive) To put money or funds into an account.
• v. To lay aside; to rid oneself of.

encumbrance

• n. Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
• n. (law) an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.

explosive

• n. Explosive substance.
• adj. With the capability to, or likely to, explode.
• adj. Having the character of an explosion.
• adj. (slang) Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.

fill

• v. (transitive) To occupy fully, to take up all of.
• v. (transitive) To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
• v. To enter (something), making it full.
• v. (intransitive) To become full.
• v. (intransitive) To become pervaded with something.
• v. (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
• v. (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
• v. (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
• n. (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
• n. An amount that fills a container.
• n. The filling of a container or area.
• n. Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
• n. (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity and exposed by excavation; fill…
• n. An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be…
• n. (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a…
• n. One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

freight

• n. Payment for transportation.
• n. Goods or items in transport.
• n. Transport of goods.
• n. (figuratively) Cultural or emotional associations.
• v. (transitive) To transport (goods).
• v. To load with freight. Also figurative.

headache

• n. A pain or ache in the head.
• n. (figurative) A nuisance or unpleasant problem.

incumbrance

• n. A burden; a thing that must be carried.
• n. (law) an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.

lade

• v. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
• v. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
• v. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
• v. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
• v. (nautical) To admit water by leakage.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) The mouth of a river.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.
• n. (Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

laden

• adj. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
• adj. Heavy.
• adj. Oppressed.
• adj. (chemistry) In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.
• v. past participle of lade.

lading

• n. (countable) The action of loading.
• n. (uncountable) Shipment, cargo, freight.
• v. present participle of lade.

lay

• v. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
• v. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
• v. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
• v. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
• v. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
• v. (law) To state; to allege.
• v. (military) To point; to aim.
• v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
• v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
• v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
• v. To apply; to put.
• v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
• v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
• v. To present or offer.
• n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
• n. A share of the profits in a business.
• n. The direction a rope is twisted.
• n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
• n. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
• n. A lake.
• adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
• adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
• adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
• v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
• v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
• n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
• n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
• n. (obsolete) A law.
• n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
• v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

loading

• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to load.
• n. (countable) A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted,…
• n. (Australia, industrial relations, countable) A hourly pay rate given to a casual employee which is higher…
• v. present participle of load.

lode

• n. (obsolete) A way or path; a road.
• n. (dialectal) a watercourse.
• n. (mining) A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
• n. (by extension) A rich source of supply.

merchandise

• n. (uncountable) Commodities offered for sale.
• n. (countable) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
• n. (uncountable) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To engage in the trade of.
• v. (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
• v. (transitive) To promote as if for sale.

onus

• n. A legal obligation.
• n. (uncountable) Burden of proof, onus probandi.
• n. Stigma.
• n. Blame.
• n. Responsibility; burden.

payload

• n. That part of a cargo that produces revenue.
• n. The total weight of passengers, crew, equipment, and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft.
• n. That part of a rocket, missile, propelled stinger, or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or…
• n. (computing) The functional part of a computer virus rather than the part that spreads it.
• n. (communication) The actual data in a data stream.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

pose

• n. (archaic) Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
• v. (transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
• v. (transitive) Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).
• v. (intransitive) Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to…
• n. Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
• n. Affectation.
• v. (obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
• v. (now rare) to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
• v. (now rare) To perplex or confuse (someone).

position

• n. A place or location.
• n. A post of employment; a job.
• n. A status or rank.
• n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
• n. A posture.
• n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
• n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
• n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
• n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
• v. To put into place.

product

• n. (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.
• n. (cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
• n. Anything that is produced; a result.
• n. (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

put

• v. To place something somewhere.
• v. To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
• v. (finance) To exercise a put option.
• v. To express something in a certain manner.
• v. (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.).
• v. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
• v. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
• v. To attach or attribute; to assign.
• v. (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
• v. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
• v. (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
• v. (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
• n. (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
• n. (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
• n. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
• n. An old card game.
• n. (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute.

sedimentation

• n. The separation of a suspension of solid particles into a concentrated slurry and a supernatant liquid,…

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

shipment

• n. a load of goods that is transported by any method (not just by ship).
• n. the act of transporting goods.

vexation

• n. The act of annoying, vexing, or irritating.
• n. The state of being vexed or irritated.

ware

• adj. (poetic) aware.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
• n. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
• n. (in the plural) See wares.
• n. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
• n. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
• n. (Ireland) Crockery.
• v. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
• v. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
• adj. (obsolete) wary; cautious.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) seaweed.
• v. (nautical) To wear, or veer.

warhead

• n. The part of a missile, projectile, torpedo, rocket, or other munition which contains either the nuclear…

wattage

• n. An amount or power (especially electric), expressed in watts, kilowatts etc.
• n. The power requirement of some electric appliance.

weight

• n. The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical…
• n. An object used to make something heavier.
• n. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
• n. Importance or influence.
• n. (weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.
• n. (physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
• n. (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
• n. (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
• n. (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
• n. (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
• n. (visual art) The illusion of mass.
• n. (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
• n. Pressure; burden.
• n. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
• n. (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
• v. (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
• v. (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
• v. (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
• v. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.

worry

• v. (intransitive) To be troubled, to give way to mental anxiety.
• v. (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
• v. (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
• v. (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
• v. (transitive) To touch repeatedly, to fiddle with.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, except in Scots) To strangle.
• n. A strong feeling of anxiety.
• n. An instance or cause of such a feeling.