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The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle Englishlode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old Englishlād(“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic*laidō(“leading, way”), Proto-Indo-European*leyt-(“to go, go forth, die”).
Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verb lade; however, Middle English lode occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verb load(“to charge with a load”) is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare),
and (except for the participle laden) has largely supplanted lade in modern English.
For the meaning development from PIE, compare Latin carrus (whence carry) akin to currō.
With the thought he he arose and removed his rifle from its boot. He looked to its loads and saw that the magazine was full. Then he inspected his revolver.
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost., London: ">…] , and are to be sold by Peter Parker; nd by Robert Boulter; nd Matthias Walker,, →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:, London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1873, →OCLC:
Far heavier load thyself expect to feel From my prevailing arm
Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out of Robbie's crinkled but fleshy sphincter.
It felt so good, I wanted to just keep going until I blew a load down his throat, but I hadn't even seen his ass yet, and I sure didn't want to come yet.
(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.
2009, Daniel Page, A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture, page 614:
This description represents a form of delay slot: the load operation takes some time to complete, say n cycles. Thus, the value loaded only becomes valid n cycles after the load seems to have executed and can therefore only be read after then.
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I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
(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.
Now that you've loaded the camera , you're ready to start shooting.
(transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
(intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
(Internetslang,obsolete) 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.
She never logs off; she is a real LOAD!
References
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Walter W. Skeat, An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (2013), p. 345.
^ "but lade is now usually replaced in the present and the past tense by load, a derivative from the noun load". Hans Kurath, George Oliver Curme, A grammar of the English language vol. 2 (1935), p. 262.