Load vs. Lot

Loadnoun

A burden; a weight to be carried.

‘I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.’;

Lotnoun

A large quantity or number; a great deal.

‘to spend a lot of money;’; ‘lots of people think so’;

Loadnoun

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

Lotnoun

A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.

‘a lot of stationery’;

Loadnoun

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

‘The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.’; ‘She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.’;

Lotnoun

One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.

Loadnoun

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

Lotnoun

(informal) A number of people taken collectively.

‘a sorry lot; a bad lot’;

Loadnoun

A large number or amount.

‘I got loads of presents for my birthday!’; ‘I got a load of emails about that.’;

Lotnoun

A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.

‘a building lot in a city’;

Loadnoun

The volume of work required to be performed.

‘Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?’;

Lotnoun

That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

Loadnoun

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

‘Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.’;

Lotnoun

Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.

‘to cast lots;’; ‘to draw lots’;

Loadnoun

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

‘I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.’;

Lotnoun

The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.

Loadnoun

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

Lotnoun

A prize in a lottery.

Loadnoun

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

‘Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.’;

Lotnoun

Allotment; lottery.

Loadnoun

A unit of measure for various quantities.

Lotnoun

All members of a set; everything.

‘The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot.’; ‘If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them.’;

Loadnoun

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

Lotnoun

An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.

Loadnoun

The charge of powder for a firearm.

Lotverb

To allot; to sort; to apportion.

Loadnoun

(obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.

Lotverb

To count or reckon (on or upon).

Loadnoun

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

Lotnoun

That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

‘But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay.’;

Loadnoun

(euphemism) Nonsense; rubbish.

‘What a load!’;

Lotnoun

Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots.

‘The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.’; ‘If we draw lots, he speeds.’;

Loadnoun

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

‘All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load.’;

Lotnoun

The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.

‘O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot'sEnough to bear.’; ‘He was but born to tryThe lot of man - to suffer and to die.’;

Loadverb

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

‘The dock workers refused to load the ship.’;

Lotnoun

A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; all objects sold in a single purchase transaction; as, a lot of stationery; - colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot.

‘I, this winter, met with a very large lot of English heads, chiefly of the reign of James I.’;

Loadverb

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

‘The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.’; ‘He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.’;

Lotnoun

A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city.

‘The defendants leased a house and lot in the city of New York.’;

Loadverb

(intransitive) To put a load on something.

‘The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading.’;

Lotnoun

A large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; to waste a lot of time on line; lots of people think so.

‘He wrote to her . . . he might be detained in London by a lot of business.’;

Loadverb

(intransitive) To receive a load.

‘The truck is designed to load easily.’;

Lotnoun

A prize in a lottery.

Loadverb

(intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.

‘The containers load quickly and easily.’;

Lotverb

To allot; to sort; to portion.

Loadverb

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

‘I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.’;

Lotnoun

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;

‘a batch of letters’; ‘a deal of trouble’; ‘a lot of money’; ‘he made a mint on the stock market’; ‘it must have cost plenty’;

Loadverb

(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.

‘Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.’;

Lotnoun

a parcel of land having fixed boundaries;

‘he bought a lot on the lake’;

Loadverb

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

‘The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.’;

Lotnoun

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);

‘whatever my fortune may be’; ‘deserved a better fate’; ‘has a happy lot’; ‘the luck of the Irish’; ‘a victim of circumstances’; ‘success that was her portion’;

Loadverb

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

‘The cartridge was designed to load easily.’;

Lotnoun

any collection in its entirety;

‘she bought the whole caboodle’;

Loadverb

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

‘Click OK to load the selected data.’;

Lotnoun

an unofficial association of people or groups;

‘the smart set goes there’; ‘they were an angry lot’;

Loadverb

To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

‘This program takes an age to load.’;

Lotnoun

anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random;

‘the luck of the draw’; ‘they drew lots for it’;

Loadverb

To put runners on first, second and third bases

‘He walks to load the bases.’;

Lotnoun

(Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction

Loadverb

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

‘You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.’; ‘The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.’;

Lotverb

divide into lots, as of land, for example

Loadverb

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

Lotverb

administer or bestow, as in small portions;

‘administer critical remarks to everyone present’; ‘dole out some money’; ‘shell out pocket money for the children’; ‘deal a blow to someone’;

Loadverb

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

‘The new owners had loaded the company with debt.’; ‘The new owners loaded debt on the company.’;

Lotpronoun

a large number or amount; a great deal

‘we had lots of fun’; ‘a lot can happen in eight months’; ‘they took a lot of abuse’; ‘there are a lot of actors in the cast’;

Loadverb

(transitive) To provide in abundance.

‘He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.’; ‘He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.’;

Lotpronoun

the whole number or quantity that is involved or implied

‘you might as well take the whole lot’;

Loadverb

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

Lotadverb

a great deal; much

‘thanks a lot’; ‘he played tennis a lot last year’;

Loadverb

To adulterate or drug.

‘to load wine’;

Lotnoun

a river of southern France, which rises in the Auvergne and flows 480 km (300 miles) west to meet the River Garonne south-east of Bordeaux.

Loadverb

To magnetize.

Lotnoun

(in the Bible) the nephew of Abraham, who was allowed to escape from the destruction of Sodom (Gen. 19). His wife, who disobeyed orders and looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.

Loadnoun

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.

‘He might such a loadTo town with his ass carry.’;

Lotverb

divide (items) into lots for sale at an auction

‘the contents have already been lotted up, and the auction takes place on Monday’;

Loadnoun

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.

Loadnoun

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

Loadnoun

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.

Loadnoun

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

Loadnoun

Weight or violence of blows.

Loadnoun

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

Loadnoun

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

Loadnoun

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

Loadnoun

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

Loadverb

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.

‘I strive all in vain to load the cart.’; ‘I have loaden me with many spoils.’; ‘Those honors deep and broad, wherewithYour majesty loads our house.’;

Loadverb

To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.

Loadverb

To magnetize.

Loadnoun

weight to be borne or conveyed

Loadnoun

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

‘the system broke down under excessive loads’;

Loadnoun

goods carried by a large vehicle

Loadnoun

an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate;

‘he got a load on and started a brawl’;

Loadnoun

the power output of a generator or power plant

Loadnoun

an onerous or difficult concern;

‘the burden of responsibility’; ‘that's a load off my mind’;

Loadnoun

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

Loadnoun

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

Loadnoun

electrical device to which electrical power is delivered

Loadverb

fill or place a load on;

‘load a car’; ‘load the truck with hay’;

Loadverb

provide with munition;

‘He loaded his gun carefully’;

Loadverb

put (something) on a structure or conveyance;

‘load the bags onto the trucks’;

Loadnoun

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

‘in addition to their own food, they must carry a load of up to eighty pounds’;

Loadnoun

the total number or amount that can be carried in something, typically a vehicle or container

‘a lorry-load of soldiers’;

Loadnoun

a quantity of items washed or to be washed in a washing machine or dishwasher at one time

‘I do at least six loads of washing a week’;

Loadnoun

the material carried along by a stream, glacier, ocean current, etc.

‘the streams deposited their loads, leaving thin sheets of gravel or sand’;

Loadnoun

a weight or source of pressure borne by someone or something

‘the increased load on the heart caused by a raised arterial pressure’; ‘the arch has hollow spandrels to lighten the load on the foundations’;

Loadnoun

the amount of work to be done by a person or machine

‘Arthur has a light teaching load’;

Loadnoun

a burden of responsibility, worry, or grief.

Loadnoun

a lot of

‘she was talking a load of rubbish’;

Loadnoun

plenty

‘there's loads to see here, even when it rains’; ‘she spends loads of money on clothes’;

Loadnoun

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

‘if the wire in the fuse is too thin to accept the load it will melt’;

Loadnoun

the amount of electricity supplied by a generating system at any given time.

Loadnoun

an impedance or circuit that receives or develops the output of a transistor or other device.

Loadverb

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

‘they go to Calais to load up their vans with cheap beer’;

Loadverb

place (a load or large quantity of something) on or in a vehicle, ship, container, etc.

‘stolen property from a burglary was loaded into a taxi’;

Loadverb

(of a ship or vehicle) take on a load

‘when we came to the quay the ship was still loading’;

Loadverb

take, buy, or consume a large amount of

‘I just went down to the store and loaded up on beer’;

Loadverb

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

‘Elaine was loaded down with bags full of shopping’;

Loadverb

supply someone or something with (something) in overwhelming abundance or to excess

‘the King and Queen loaded Columbus with wealth and honours’;

Loadverb

bias towards a particular outcome

‘the odds were loaded against them before the match’;

Loadverb

charge (a firearm) with ammunition

‘he began to load the gun’;

Loadverb

insert something into (a device) so that it can be operated

‘load your camera before you start’; ‘following breakfast we clear the table and load the dishwasher’;

Loadverb

insert (something) into a device so that it will operate

‘load the cassette into the camcorder’;

Loadverb

transfer (a program or data) into memory, or into the central processor from storage

‘when the program is loaded into the microcomputer, the CPU carries out each instruction’;

Loadverb

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