load

/ləʊd/

US pronunciation

American sound/ləʊd/

load

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> load

Myanmar meaning

(n) ဝန် (v) တင်

Full entry

load / lǝƱd / n

၁။ [C] ဝန်။ ထမ်းယူသယ်ဆောင်ရသော ပမာဏ။ (တစ်)ထမ်း၊ (တစ်)ရွက်၊ (တစ်)လှည်း၊ (တစ်) လှေ စသည်။ a load of sand ❍ porters carrying loads up the mountain.
၂။ [C] (compounds) တစ်စီးစာ။ တစ်ခေါက်စာ။ …နှင့်အပြည့်။ a full load of washing ❍ car-loads/bus-loads of tourists.
၃။ [C] တာဝန်။ ဝန်။ အလုပ်။ I’ve got a heavy workload/teaching load. See also CASE-LOAD
၄။ [C usu sing ] တာဝန်။ ဝန်။ ဝန်ထုပ်။ a heavy load of guilt ❍ The phone call took a load off my mind.
၅။ (ခံနိုင်သည့်၊ ထမ်းထားသည့်) ဝန်။ a load-bearing wall.
၆။ လျှပ်စစ်ဓာတ်အား။
၇။ loads [pl] ~s (of sth) (infml ) တစ်ထမ်းတစ်ပိုး။ တစ်လှေကြီး။ loads of friends / money/ time ❍ ‘Do you have any change?’ ‘Loads!’
၈။ ~ of sth [sing] အများကြီး။ တစ်ပုံတစ်ခေါင်း။ တစ်ထွေးကြီး။ a load of rubbish! ❍ He brought round a load of old junk.
v
၁။ (က) ~ (up) ; ~ (up with sth) ; ~ sth/sb (up) (with sth) ; ~ sth (into/onto sth/sb) (ကုန်၊ ဝန်စသည်) တင်သည်။ (ထည့်စရာ) ထည့်သည်။ load the dishwasher ❍ load a lorry (up) with bricks/load bricks onto a lorry ❍ We’re still loading (up). (ခ) (ယာဉ်တွင် ဝန်စသည်) တင်သည်။ The boat is still loading.
၂။ (esp passive) မူမမှန်အောင် မဲတင်းထားသည်။ ကလိမ်ကျ ထားသည်။ a loaded dice (ie one with weight added so that it will fall in a certain way, eg with the six on top).
၃။ ~ B (into A) (အမြောက်စသည်) ကျည်ထိုးသည်။ (ကင်မရာ) ဖလင် ထည့်သည်။ Be careful, that gun’s loaded. ❍ She loaded the camera with film / loaded a film into the camera.
၄။ (ကွန်ပျူတာတွင် အချက်အလက်စသည်) ထည့်သွင်းသည်။ load software (from a disk) ❍ Wait for the game to load.
❏ get a load of sb/sth [IDM ] (infml esp US ) ကြည့်စမ်းပါဦး။ Get a load of that guy with the funny hat!
❏ load the dice (against sb) [IDM ] (usu passive) ကံမလိုက်။ Having lost both his parents when he was a child he always felt that the dice were loaded against him.
❏ load sb/sth down (with sth) [PRHV ] (esp passive) တနင့်တပိုး ထမ်းရသည်။ She was loaded down with books.
❏ loaded adj
၁။ အပြည့်အမောက်၊ တနင့်တပိုး ဖြည့် ထားသော။ loaded baskets.
၂။ (sl ) ကျိကျိတက် ချမ်းသာ [သော]။ ထော [သော]။
၃။ ~ with sth (infml usu derog ) အပြည့်ပါ[သော]။ cakes loaded with calories.
၄။ မဲတင်း ထားသော။ ပင်းသော။ ဘက်လိုက်သော။ The law is heavily loaded in favour of the consumer.
၅။ နှပ်ကြောင်းပေးထား သော။ a loaded question (ie one that is designed to make the person answering reveal more than he or she intended).

More examples

The men were struggling with their heavy loads.
[load of] : She drove back from the farm with a full load of hay.
The hip belt on this rucksack takes most of the load off the shoulders.
Teaching loads have increased this year.
We need a computer that can cope with the load.
You must allow others to share your load.
[a heavy load to bear/carry] : Knowledge of what they had done was a heavy load to bear.
I think I’ll put on another load of washing.

Synonyms

weight, cargo, freight, consignment, shipment, affliction, albatross, amount, arrange, bale, ballast, bear, bundle, burden, capacity, care, carry, charge, chock, choke, containerize, contents, cram, crush, cumber, deadweight, drag, drain, duty, encumber, encumbrance, excess baggage, fill, flood, glut, goods, gorge, hamper, haul, heap, heap up, heft, hindrance, incubus, insert, jam, lade, lading, liability, load up, lumber, mass, millstone, obligation, onus, oppress, oppression, overburden, overload, oversupply, overwhelm, pack, parcel, part, payload, pile, pile it on, pile up, place, pop in, pour in, pressure, put aboard, put in, ram in, responsibility, saddle, shot, slot in, stack, stock, store, stow, stuff, surfeit, swamp, task, tax, top, top off, trouble, trust, weigh, weigh down, worry

Antonyms

abstain, aid, alleviate, assist, benefit, bless, blessing, diet, disarrange, disorder, disregard, eject, exonerate, fast, happiness, help, irresponsibility, lose, relieve, unburden, unload, use, whole

Cross references

weight cargo freight consignment shipment affliction albatross amount arrange bale ballast bear bundle burden capacity care carry charge chock choke containerize contents cram crush cumber deadweight drag drain