Load vs Cold - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between load and cold

is that load is a burden; a weight to be carried while cold is a condition of low temperature.

As a verb load

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

As an adjective cold is

(label) having a low temperature.

As an adverb cold is

while at low temperature.

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 ----

cold

English

Adjective

(er)

(label) Having a low temperature.

(label) Causing the air to be cold.

(label) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.

Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.

* 2011 April 23, (Doctor Who), series 6, episode 1, (The Impossible Astronaut):

RIVER SONG (upon seeing the still-living DOCTOR, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death): This is cold'. Even by your standards, this is ' cold .

Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.

Completely unprepared; without introduction.

Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.

(label) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.

(label) Cornered, done for.

(label) Not pungent or acrid.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

cold plants

(label) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

The jest grows cold when it comes on in a second scene.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.

(label) Not sensitive; not acute.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.

Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm'' and ''hot .

(label) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.

Synonyms

* chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool * (of the weather) (qualifier) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters * (of a person or animal) * (unfriendly) aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming * (unprepared) unprepared, unready * See also

Antonyms

* (having a low temperature) baking, boiling, heated, hot, scorching, searing, torrid, warm * (of the weather) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (of a person or animal) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (unfriendly) amiable, friendly, welcoming * (unprepared) prepared, primed, ready

Derived terms

* as cold as charity * as cold as ice, cold as ice * as cold as the grave, cold as the grave * blow hot and cold * brass monkeys * bring someone out in a cold sweat * coldness * cold-blooded * cold call * cold case * cold cash * cold comfort * cold cream * cold cuts * cold-eyed * cold feet/get cold feet * cold fish * cold front * * cold-hearted * cold one * cold-read * cold reading * cold snap * cold start * cold storage * cold store * cold sweat * cold turkey * cold war * cold-weld * come in from the cold * freezing cold * get cold feet * give someone the cold shoulder * in cold blood * in the cold light of day * leave someone cold * leave someone out in the cold * make someone's blood run cold * stone-cold * throw cold water on

Noun

(en noun)

A condition of low temperature.

Come in, out of the cold .

(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.

Synonyms

* (low temperature) coldness * (illness) common cold, coryza, head cold

Derived terms

* bitter cold * brass monkey weather * catch cold * catch one's death of cold * cold sore * cold virus * common cold * head cold

Coordinate terms

* freeze, frost

Adverb

(en adverb)

While at low temperature.

''The steel was processed cold .

Without preparation.

The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.

With finality.

I knocked him out cold .

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Anagrams

* clod