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Excess vs Load - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between excess and load

is that excess is the state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light while load is a burden; a weight to be carried.

As an adjective excess

is more than is normal, necessary or specified.

As a verb load is

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

excess

English

Noun

(es) (Spherical excess)
  • The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or proper; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
  • * , King John , act 4, scene 2:
    • To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
    To throw a perfume on the violet, . . .
    Is wasteful and ridiculous excess .
  • * , "Jealosy", in The Poetical Works of William Walsh (1797), page 19 (Google preview):
    • That kills me with excess' of grief, this with ' excess of joy.
  • The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
    • The difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.
  • An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
  • * :
    • And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess .
  • * 1667 , , Paradise Lost , Book III:
    • Fair Angel, thy desire . . .
    . . . leads to no excess
    That reaches blame
  • (geometry) Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
  • (British, insurance) A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim.

    • Synonyms

    * (qualifier) (l)

    Antonyms

    * deficiency

    Related terms

    * exceed * excessive

    Adjective

    (-)
  • More than is normal, necessary or specified.

    • Derived terms

    * excess baggage

    See also

    * usury

    External links

    * * (Webster 1913)

    load

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A burden; a weight to be carried.
    • I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
  • (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind .
  • * Dryden
    • Our life's a load .
  • * 2005 , (Coldplay), Green Eyes
    • I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.
  • 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.
  • (in combination)
  • (often, in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
    • I got loads of presents for my birthday!
    I got a load of emails about that.
  • The volume of work required to be performed.
    • Will our web servers be able to cope with that load ?
  • (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.
  • (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
    • I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
  • (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.
    • Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals.
  • (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:
    • If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.
  • 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.
    • (Milton)
  • (vulgar, slang) The semen of an ejaculation.
  • * 2006 , John Patrick, Barely Legal , page 102
    • Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out
  • * 2009 , John Butler Wanderlust , page 35
    • 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, freight

    Derived terms

    * see

    Verb

  • To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
    • The dock workers refused to load the ship.
  • 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.
  • To put a load on something.
    • The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading .
  • To receive a load.
    • ''The truck is designed to load easily.
  • To be placed into storage or conveyance.
    • The containers load quickly and easily .
  • To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
    • I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
  • 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.
  • To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
    • The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore.
  • To be put into use in an apparatus.
    • The cartridge was designed to load easily.
  • (computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
    • Click OK to load the selected data.
  • (computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
    • This program takes an age to load .
  • (baseball) To put runners on first]], [[second base, second and third bases
    • He walks to load the bases.
  • 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.
  • 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.
    • The new owners had loaded the company with debt.
  • To place as an encumbrance.
    • The new owners loaded debt on the company.
  • To provide in abundance.
    • He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon.
    He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon.
  • (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
    • to load wine
  • (archaic) To magnetize.
    • (Prior)

    Derived terms

    * See

    Derived terms

    * dead load * download * live load * load-bearing * loaded * loading * loadsamoney * load up * payload * shitload * unit load * upload English collective nouns ----