Load vs Pack - What's the difference?
load | pack |
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.
* 2006 , John Patrick, Barely Legal ,
* 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.
A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
* 2005 , John D. Skinner and Christian T. Chimimba, The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion?
A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang;
A group of Cub Scouts.
A shook of cask staves.
A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
(slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
(snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
(rugby) The team on the field.
(label) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
# (label) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass.
#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
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# (label) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
# (label) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam.
# (label) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
# (label) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass.
# (label) To gather in flocks or schools.
(label) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
# To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# (label) To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.
#* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
# (label) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
#* (Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
# (label) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
#* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
(label) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To move, send or carry.
# (label) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
# (label) To depart in haste; – generally with off'' or ''away .
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
#* (1809-1892)
# To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
To block a shot, especially in basketball.
To wear a simulated penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
In transitive terms the difference between load and pack
is that load is to provide in abundance while pack is to cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.In intransitive terms the difference between load and pack
is that load is to be put into use in an apparatus while pack is to depart in haste; – generally with off or away.load
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
- (Prior)
Derived terms
* SeeDerived terms
* dead load * download * live load * load-bearing * loaded * loading * loadsamoney * load up * payload * shitload * unit load * upload English collective nouns ----pack
English
Noun
(pack) (en noun)- The horses carried the packs across the plain.
- A pack of lies.
- We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack .
- African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack .
- a pack of thieves or knaves.
- The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
Synonyms
(full set of cards) deckDerived terms
* blister pack * bowl pack * daypack * Duluth pack * eight-pack * expansion pack * fanny pack * froth pack * ice pack * jet pack/jetpack/jet-pack * pack animal * pack ice * pack journalism * pack mentality * pack rat * RAM pack * rocket pack * service pack * six-packVerb
(en verb)- strange materials packed up with wonderful art
- Wherethe bones / Of all my buried ancestors are packed .
George Goodchild
- Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
- The expected council was dwindling intoa packed assembly of Italian bishops.
- He lost lifeupon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies.
- This naughty man / Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, / Who, I believe, was pack'd in all this wrong, / Hired to it by your brother.
- our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey
- Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.
- Poor Stella must pack off to town.
- You shall pack , / And never more darken my doors again.