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Meaning of LOADING

Pronunciation:  'lowding

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the labor of loading something; "the loading took 2 hours"
  2. [n]  goods carried by a large vehicle
  3. [n]  weight to be borne or conveyed
  4. [n]  a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads"
  5. [n]  the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift
 
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 Synonyms: burden, cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, load, payload, shipment
 
 Antonyms: unloading
 
 See Also: burthen, dead load, handling, indefinite quantity, live load, merchandise, millstone, overburden, overload, power loading, product, ratio, span loading, superload, trainload, wares, weight, wing loading

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Load"ing\, n.
1. The act of putting a load on or into.
2. A load; cargo; burden. --Shak.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: allocation, assignment, bale, bother, burden, burdening, burthen, cargo, charge, charging, collocation, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, demand, deployment, deposit, deposition, disposition, drag, emplacement, encumbrance, exaction, freight, freighting, handicap, imposing an onus, imposition, inconsiderateness, inconvenience, incubus, incumbency, infliction, lading, laying on, load, loading down, localization, locating, location, millstone, obtrusiveness, oppression, overload, overtaxing, overweighting, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, posting, pressure, presumptuousness, putting, reposition, saddling, situation, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage, superincumbency, surcharge, tasking, taxing, trouble, unwarranted demand, weighting
 

 

 

 

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