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Payload vs Gaylord - What's the difference?

payload | gaylord |

As a noun payload

is that part of a cargo that produces revenue.

As a proper noun gaylord is

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payload

English

Noun

(wikipedia payload) (en noun)
  • That part of a cargo that produces revenue
  • The total weight of passengers, crew, equipment and cargo carried by an aircraft or spacecraft
  • That part of a rocket, missile, propelled stinger or torpedo that is not concerned with propulsion or guidance, such as a warhead or satellite.
  • (computing) The functional part of a computer virus rather than the part that spreads it
  • (communication) The actual data in a data stream
  • gaylord

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • * 1942 , The Gay Sisters , Random House, page 81:
  • Why should we Gaylords' be above all the others, and why should I throw away the few short minutes I have to breathe in this world, throw it away on family pride and a seven-letter name? '''Gaylord. Gaylord. GAYLORD. ''A sound like an elm tree full of katydids.
  • , transferred from the surname.
  • * 1926 , Show Boat , Doubleday, Page & Co, page 181:
  • Gaylord' Ravenal elevated the right eyebrow and looked down his aristocratic nose at the capering little captain. "I am ' Gaylord Ravenal, of the Tennessee Ravenals. I failed to catch your name."
  • * 1967 , At the Height of the Moon , House of Stratus (2001), ISBN 0755101928, page 6:
  • He smiled often, he could make his knuckles crack like pistol shots, and he had the courtesy to address him as Gaylord , and not by some ridiculous title of his own.

    Usage notes

    * The given name had some vogue in the 20th century, but has rarely been given after the 1960s because of the modern meaning of gay. ----