Carry vs. Load — What's the Difference?

To hold or support while moving; bear

A heavy or bulky thing that is being carried or is about to be carried

To move or take from one place to another; transport

A weight or source of pressure borne by someone or something

Chiefly Southern US To escort or accompany.

A lot of

To serve as a means for the conveyance of; transmit

The amount of power supplied by a source; the resistance of moving parts to be overcome by a motor

To communicate; pass on

Fill (a vehicle, ship, container, etc.) with a large amount of something

To express or contain

Make (someone or something) carry or hold a large or excessive quantity of heavy things

To have (something) on the surface or skin; bear

Charge (a firearm) with ammunition

To hold or be capable of holding

Add an extra charge to (an insurance premium) to take account of a factor that increases the risk.

To support (a weight or responsibility).

A weight or mass that is supported

To support the weight or responsibility of

The overall force to which a structure is subjected in supporting a weight or mass or in resisting externally applied forces.

To keep or have on one's person

Something that is carried, as by a vehicle, person, or animal

To be pregnant with (offspring).

The quantity that is or can be carried at one time.

To hold and move (the body or a part of it) in a particular way

The share of work allocated to or required of a person, machine, group, or organization.

To behave or conduct (oneself) in a specified manner.

The demand for services or performance made on a machine or system.

To extend or continue in space, time, or degree

The amount of material that can be inserted into a device or machine at one time

To give impetus to; propel

A single charge of ammunition for a firearm.

To take further; advance

Vulgar Slang An ejaculation of semen.

To take or seize, especially by force; capture.

A mental weight or burden

To be successful in; win

A responsibility regarded as oppressive.

To gain victory, support, or acceptance for

The external mechanical resistance against which a machine acts.

To win a majority of the votes in

The power output of a generator or power plant.

To gain the sympathy of; win over

A device or the resistance of a device to which power is delivered.

To include or keep on a list

A fee that a mutual fund charges to an investor when the investor purchases or redeems shares in the fund.

To have as an attribute or accompaniment

Often loads(Informal) A great number or amount

To involve as a condition, consequence, or effect

Derogatory Slang A heavy or overweight person.

(Physics) To possess (an intrinsic property, such as color charge) or convey (a force) that governs particle interactions.

Genetic load.

To transfer from one place, as a column, page, or book, to another

To put (something) into or onto a structure or conveyance

To keep in stock; offer for sale

To put something into or onto (a structure or conveyance)

To keep in one's accounts as a debtor

To provide or fill nearly to overflowing; heap

To maintain or support (one that is weaker or less competent, for example).

To give worries or difficulties to; weigh down; burden

To compensate for (a weaker member or partner) by one's performance.

To insert (a necessary material) into a device

To place before the public; print or broadcast

To insert a necessary material into

To produce as a crop.

(Games) To make (dice) heavier on one side by adding weight.

To provide forage for (livestock)

To charge with additional meanings, implications, or emotional import

To sing (a melody, for example) on key

To raise the power demand in (an electrical circuit), as by adding resistance.

(Nautical) To be equipped with (a mast or sail).

To increase (an insurance premium or mutual fund share price) by adding expenses or sale costs.

To cover (a distance) or advance beyond (a point or object) in one golf stroke.

(Baseball) To have or put runners on (first, second, and third base).

To control and advance (a ball or puck).

(Computers) To transfer (data) from a storage device into a computer's memory.

(Basketball) To palm (the ball) in violation of the rules.

To receive a load

To act as a bearer

To charge a firearm with ammunition.

To be transmitted or conveyed

To put or place a load into or onto a structure, device, or conveyance.

To admit of being transported

(Computers) To be transferred from a storage device into a computer's memory.

To hold the neck and head in a certain way. Used of a horse.

A burden; a weight to be carried.

To be accepted or approved

(figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.

The act or process of carrying.

A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.

A portage, as between two navigable bodies of water.

A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.

(Football) An act of running with the ball on an offensive play from scrimmage

(in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle

The range of a gun or projectile.

A large number or amount.

The distance traveled by a hurled or struck ball.

The volume of work required to be performed.

Reach; projection

(engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.

(transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.

(electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.

(transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.

(engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.

(transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.

(electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.

To move; to convey using force

A unit of measure for various quantities.

(transitive) To lead or guide.

The viral load

(transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.

A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.

(transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.

The charge of powder for a firearm.

(transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly

(obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.

In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.

The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.

(transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).

(euphemism) Nonsense; rubbish.

(intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.

(computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.

To insult, to diss.

(Philippines) prepaid phone credit

To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.

A person that spends all day online. The term was originally used in the late 1980s to describe users on free Q-Link (later America Online) accounts who never signed off the system at great expense to the company.

To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.

(transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

(transitive) To have on one's person.

(transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.

To be pregnant (with).

(intransitive) To put a load on something.

To have propulsive power; to propel.

(intransitive) To receive a load.

To hold the head; said of a horse.

(intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.

(hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.

(transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.

To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle

(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.

To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.

(transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.

(obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.

(intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.

To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit

To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

(reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.

To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.

To put runners on first, second and third bases

(intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.

(transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.

(gaming) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.

(transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.

(Southern US) to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)

(transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.

(North America) To bear a firearm, such as a gun.

(transitive) To provide in abundance.

A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.

(transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.

A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.

To adulterate or drug.

(computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

To magnetize.

(finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.

(Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits

(golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.

A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

(finance) Carried interest.

The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.

The sky; cloud-drift.

That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.

To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; - often with away or off.

A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.

To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child.

The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.

To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.

Weight or violence of blows.

To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures.

The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.

To convey by extension or continuance; to extend; as, to carry the chimney through the roof; to carry a road ten miles farther.

The amount of work that a person, group, or machine is assigned to perform; as, the boss distributed the load evenly among his employees.

To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in a contest; to bring to a successful issue; to win; as, to carry an election.

The device or devices that consume power from a power supply.

To get possession of by force; to capture.

The weight or force that a structural support bears or is designed to bear; the object that creates that force.

To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of ; to show or exhibit; to imply.

To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon.

To bear (one's self); to behave, to conduct or demean; - with the reflexive pronouns.

To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.

To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance.

To magnetize.

To act as a bearer; to convey anything; as, to fetch and carry.

Weight to be borne or conveyed

To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.

A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time;

To hold the head; - said of a horse; as, to carry well i. e., to hold the head high, with arching neck.

Goods carried by a large vehicle

To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.

An amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate;

A tract of land, over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a carrying place; a portage.

The power output of a generator or power plant

The act of carrying something

An onerous or difficult concern;

Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body;

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

Have with oneself; have on one's person;

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

Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;

Electrical device to which electrical power is delivered

Serve as a means for expressing something;

Fill or place a load on;

Bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of;

Provide with munition;

Support or hold in a certain manner;

Put (something) on a structure or conveyance;

Contain or hold; have within;

Extend to a certain degree;

Continue or extend;

Be necessarily associated with or result in or involve;

Win in an election;

Include, as on a list;

Behave in a certain manner;

Have on hand;

Include as the content; broadcast or publicize;

Propel,

Pass on a communication;

Have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence;

Be conveyed over a certain distance;

Keep up with financial support;

Have or possess something abstract;

Win approval or support for;

Compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance;

Take further or advance;

Have on the surface or on the skin;

Capture after a fight;

Transfer (entries) from one account book to another

Transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication;

Pursue a line of scent or be a bearer;

Bear (a crop);

Propel or give impetus to;

Drink alcohol without showing ill effects;

Be able to feed;

Have a certain range;

Cover a certain distance or advance beyond;

Secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions);

Be successful in;

Sing or play against other voices or parts;

Be pregnant with;