Load vs. Lade — What's the Difference?

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

To load with or as if with cargo.

A weight or source of pressure borne by someone or something

To place (something) as a load for or as if for shipment.

A lot of

To burden or oppress; weigh down.

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

To take up or remove (water) with a ladle or dipper.

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

To take on cargo.

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

To ladle a liquid.

Charge (a firearm) with ammunition

To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).

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

To weigh down, oppress, or burden.

A weight or mass that is supported

To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).

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

To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.

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

(nautical) To admit water by leakage.

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

(Scotland) A load.

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

The mouth of a river.

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

A passage for water; a ditch or drain.

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

(Scottish) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.

A single charge of ammunition for a firearm.

To load; to put a burden or freight on or in; - generally followed by that which receives the load, as the direct object.

Vulgar Slang An ejaculation of semen.

To throw in or out, with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern.

A mental weight or burden

To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table.

A responsibility regarded as oppressive.

To draw water.

The external mechanical resistance against which a machine acts.

To admit water by leakage, as a ship, etc.

The power output of a generator or power plant.

The mouth of a river.

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

A passage for water; a ditch or drain.

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

Remove with or as if with a ladle;

Often loads(Informal) A great number or amount

Fill or place a load on;

Derogatory Slang A heavy or overweight person.

Genetic load.

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

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

To provide or fill nearly to overflowing; heap

To give worries or difficulties to; weigh down; burden

To insert (a necessary material) into a device

To insert a necessary material into

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

To charge with additional meanings, implications, or emotional import

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

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

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

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

To receive a load

To charge a firearm with ammunition.

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

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

A burden; a weight to be carried.

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

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

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

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

A large number or amount.

The volume of work required to be performed.

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

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

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

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

A unit of measure for various quantities.

The viral load

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

The charge of powder for a firearm.

(obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.

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

(euphemism) Nonsense; rubbish.

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

(Philippines) prepaid phone credit

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.

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

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

(intransitive) To put a load on something.

(intransitive) To receive a load.

(intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.

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

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

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

To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

To put runners on first, second and third bases

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

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

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

(transitive) To provide in abundance.

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

To adulterate or drug.

To magnetize.

(Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Weight or violence of blows.

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

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

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

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

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 adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.

To magnetize.

Weight to be borne or conveyed

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

Goods carried by a large vehicle

An amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate;

The power output of a generator or power plant

An onerous or difficult concern;

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

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

Electrical device to which electrical power is delivered

Fill or place a load on;

Provide with munition;

Put (something) on a structure or conveyance;