LOADING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loading mean? 

• LOADING (noun)
  The noun LOADING has 5 senses:

1. weight to be borne or conveyed

2. a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time

3. the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift

4. goods carried by a large vehicle

5. the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.

  Familiarity information: LOADING used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOADING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weight to be borne or conveyed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

burden; load; loading

Hypernyms ("loading" is a kind of...):

weight (an artifact that is heavy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loading"):

burthen (a variant of 'burden')

dead load (a constant load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) due to the weight of the supported structure itself)

live load; superload (a variable load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) such as moving traffic)

millstone (any load that is difficult to carry)

overburden; overload (an excessive burden)

overload (an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

load; loading

Context example:

the system broke down under excessive loads

Hypernyms ("loading" is a kind of...):

indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loading"):

trainload (quantity that can be carried by a train)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("loading" is a kind of...):

ratio (the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loading"):

power loading (the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its engine power)

span loading (the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its wingspan)

wing loading (the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its wing area)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Goods carried by a large vehicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cargo; consignment; freight; lading; load; loading; payload; shipment

Hypernyms ("loading" is a kind of...):

merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the loading took 2 hours

Hypernyms ("loading" is a kind of...):

handling (manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something)

Antonym:

unloading (the labor of taking a load of something off of or out of a vehicle or ship or container etc.)

Derivation:

load (fill or place a load on)

load (put (something) on a structure or conveyance)

 Context examples 

A device to hold an amout of film and facilitate its loading into a device.

(Film Cartridge Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Testing the device's capability to withstand the progressive and localized structural damage that occurs when a material is subjected to cyclic loading.

(Device Fatigue Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

A few minutes sufficed to finish the loading, and I lowered the boat into the water.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He caught the painter and made it fast, and we fell to loading the boat for our very lives.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

To achieve the steady state quickly, the loading dose is used.

(Intravenous infusion, NCI Thesaurus)

White Fang watched it all with eager eyes, and when the tepees began to come down and the canoes were loading at the bank, he understood.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Scientists have described many different spring-loading mechanisms in ants, but no one knew the relative speed of each of these mechanisms.

(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The current paradigm suggests that the heart adapts to excess of hemodynamic loading by compensatory hypertrophy, which under condition of persistent stress, over time evolves into dysfunction and myocardial failure.

(NFAT Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Epac1 then catalyses GTP-loading on Rap2B, which leads to PLC-e activation.

(Phospholipase C-Epsilon Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Following a series of chemical modifications, the nanogels are capable of loading and releasing drugs, responding to unique pH environments, identifying biomarkers, converting light into therapeutic heating and exhibiting degradation characteristics.

(Novel nanogels hold promise for improved drug delivery to cancer patients, National Science Foundation)