PAYLOAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does payload mean? 

• PAYLOAD (noun)
  The noun PAYLOAD has 2 senses:

1. the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents

2. goods carried by a large vehicle

  Familiarity information: PAYLOAD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAYLOAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

load; payload; warhead

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

explosive (a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck)

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

atomic warhead; nuclear warhead; nuke; thermonuclear warhead (the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb)

Holonyms ("payload" is a part of...):

guided missile (a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Goods carried by a large vehicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

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

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

merchandise; product; ware (commodities offered for sale)

 Context examples 

A very brief application of bioreactor and its payload triggered months of tissue growth and patterning.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A targeted antibody payload (TAP)-based immunoconjugate consisting of a human monoclonal antibody directed against the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) conjugated, via a nonreducible thioether linker (succinimidyl trans-4-(maleimidylmethyl)cyclohexane-1-carboxylate or SMCC), to the cytotoxic agent maytansinoid mertansine (DM1), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Anti-EGFR TAP Antibody-drug Conjugate IMGN289, NCI Thesaurus)