Admission vs Load - What's the difference?
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The act or practice of admitting.
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Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgment; concession.
(legal) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
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 .
* Dryden
* 2005 , (Coldplay), Green Eyes
A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
(in combination)
(often, in the plural, colloquial) 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) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
(electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
(obsolete) A unit of measure, often equivalent to the capacity of a waggon, but later becoming more specific measures of weight.
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 172:
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.
(vulgar, slang) The semen of an ejaculation.
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* 2009 , John Butler Wanderlust ,
To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
To put a load on something.
To receive a load.
To be placed into storage or conveyance.
To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
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 fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
To be put into use in an apparatus.
(computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
(computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
(baseball) To put runners on first]], [[second base, second and third bases
To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
To encumber with something negative.
To place as an encumbrance.
To provide in abundance.
(transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
(archaic) To magnetize.
As nouns the difference between admission and load
is that admission is the act or practice of admitting while load is a burden; a weight to be carried.As a verb load is
to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).admission
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.
- There is no way he has seen that show, the admission is more than he makes in a week.
Synonyms
* admittance, concession, acknowledgment, concurrence, allowanceSee also
* (wikipedia "admission")External links
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English
Noun
(en noun)- I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
- Our life's a load .
- I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.
- The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
- She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
- I got loads of presents for my birthday!
- I got a load of emails about that.
- Will our web servers be able to cope with that load ?
- Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons.
- I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
- Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
- If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.
- (Milton)
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- Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out
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- 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.
Synonyms
* charge, freightDerived terms
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- The dock workers refused to load the ship.
- The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly.
- He loaded his stuff into his storage locker.
- The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading .
- ''The truck is designed to load easily.
- The containers load quickly and easily .
- I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
- Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting.
- The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
- The cartridge was designed to load easily.
- Click OK to load the selected data.
- This program takes an age to load .
- He walks to load the bases.
- 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.
- The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
- The new owners loaded debt on the company.
- He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
- He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
- to load wine
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