I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a load of codswallop
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What a load of codswallop !
a load of laundry (= an amount that fits in a washing machine )
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I do at least one or two loads of laundry every day.
a load of nonsense informal (= things that are completely untrue )
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What she told you was a load of nonsense. Mark doesn’t drink at all.
a load of old bollocks
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She’s just talking a load of old bollocks .
a load of rubbish
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That’s a load of rubbish .
a load of...cobblers
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I’ve never heard such a load of old cobblers !
carbo loading
lighten the load/burden/workload
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We should hire another secretary to lighten Barbara’s workload.
load a camera (= put a film in it )
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I had loaded my camera with a black and white film.
load a file (= put a file onto a computer )
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Double-click on the icon and it will load the zip file onto your computer.
load of bullshit
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What he told me was a load of bullshit .
loading bay
load/install a program (= put it on your computer )
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Is that program installed on your computer?
load/install software
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Don't let your kids load pirated games software onto your machine.
load/pile of crap ( also bunch of crap American English )
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The game was a load of crap.
load/pile of crap ( also bunch of crap American English )
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That’s a bunch of crap! I never said that.
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He came out with a load of crap about how he’d tried to call me yesterday.
piece/pile/load etc of shit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The Journal now has a completely new look, with bigger pages and loads of colour.
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When you eat a big load of sugar, your blood sugar levels rise.
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At the end of the street, there's this big square with loads of people in it.
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The 5,000 tons of coal is one of the biggest loads ever to be brought into Sharpness docks.
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The same procedure is followed on the second and top wires, the latter taking a bigger load than the first two.
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I can remember as a small child Daddy coming back from Barnard Castle with big loads on his bicycle.
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Over several weekends I humped big loads , all over 40 pounds, and actually became very fond of this pack.
critical
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Pollution Targets and Critical Loads Critical loads mark the limit of nature's ability to tolerate acid rain.
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Stockholm target was an early definition of a critical load .
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The target reductions required to bring sulphur pollution below the critical loads will vary according to present pollution.
extra
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Water quality would not be improved because of the extra load on the system, which defeats the object.
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Any extra load on the tail will help to increase its resistance to moving sideways and so help prevent a serious swing.
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It also makes sure that the extra load of the solenoid valve does not cause problems due to sudden voltage drops.
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This extra load would have badly affected telephone response time if the two functions had not been separated.
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In the late 1950s, however, his Office was still very small and not equipped to take on the extra load .
full
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Two full lorry loads of milk go into some of the bigger supermarkets every day.
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Frye was expounding on the dangers of holding down a job while taking a full load of courses.
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Which aircraft have we got and can it take two crew and a full load of fuel?
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Both reactors are now operating at full load .
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And the days of trying to decide of you have half or full load to wash are gone.
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Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful.
heavier
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With two of Athene's editorial staff off sick, a heavier load was falling on the shoulders of those remaining.
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It is natural for some people to carry a slightly heavier load because of ability, experience, motivation or pride.
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General practitioners have had to bear a much heavier load than even the most pessimistic were expecting.
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The 20-year-old was burdened with a far heavier load during those pre- dawn hours.
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Would they be able to lift this heavier load ?
heavy
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All these men were encumbered with their heavy loads and had only automatic pistols.
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Think of it-three jobs-that is a heavy load to bear.
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One day he collapses while pulling a heavy load .
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As they do so, be sure they notice the weights on the crane which balance the heavy loads .
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If you have to carry a heavy load , divide the weight between two bags.
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Then she laid this heavy load on me that she was concerned about my ability to work with the team.
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Whenever you pick up a heavy load , bend both legs.
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Ants know how to carry heavy loads .
high
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It's got this great high roof and loads of trains.
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But they are overwhelmed by bureaucratic regulations and by their inordinately high case loads .
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Systems and traps discharging high organic loads can be dosed with biological cleaners.
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If high value loads are carried regularly, an appropriate annual premium should be sought.
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For higher speeds the load angle d increases until at the highest speeds it approaches 90 degrees.
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The occasional carriage of higher risk loads should only attract once-off premiums.
large
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It sums up how it carries large loads .
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A large load of river sediment. 2.
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You are seen to be pulling a large load across the stage.
light
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Arthur has rather a light teaching load .
viral
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Most patients were experiencing a large drop in viral load .
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That goal has been achieved if, after several months of treatment, no virus is found in the viral load .
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At the beginning of a cold the viral load will be very high.
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Thus there are several patients with an inadequate response who are remaining well despite an unsatisfactory viral load .
whole
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As if there was a whole load of things behind him and nothing in front but age.
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If this happened, Carlton would reject the whole load and send the truck away.
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A whole load of boring industry heads droning on about how important they are and trying to cop off with each other?
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She carried the whole load , all the way.
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He took a grip on the timber and, tensing two muscled arms, lifted the whole load clear of the skip.
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There's a whole load of great stuff in there.
■ NOUN
case
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With rising case loads and diminishing resources, it is hardly surprising that social workers often feel they can not win.
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But they are overwhelmed by bureaucratic regulations and by their inordinately high case loads .
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This largely reflects the different composition of the case load , with fewer householder proposals, which almost always lack policies.
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Investigations into law enforcement officers' behavior were reduced, though they still constituted a large part of the case load .
factor
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Both stations routinely appear at the top of the performance league, with load factors well in excess of 80 percent.
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The load factor is the percentage of seats filled by paying passengers.
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Sizewell B, with enhanced diversity in control and monitoring systems, will certainly produce at over 85 percent load factor .
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It attributed the slight improvement in load factor to recent schedule changes and fare sales.
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The board assumes that after Sizewell B has settled down it will have a load factor of 64 percent.
lorry
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Two full lorry loads of milk go into some of the bigger supermarkets every day.
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Any error and it could result in lorry loads of the wrong colour.
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Just as the train pulled out of the station a lorry load of soldiers drove in like maniacs.
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Customs Offficers found the drugs hidden in a lorry load of pot plants at Sheerness Docks in January last year.
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Powys Transport delivered two lorry loads of materials to the show, which opens tomorrow.
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Today, this lorry load of spent nuclear rods represents history in the making again.
resistance
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Consider their response to a steady sinusoidal input signal when a load resistance R L is connected across the output terminals.
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The current consumption of the stage will be fixed by the load resistance to which the collector is connected.
work
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Production even on the smallest holdings had trebled and the work load had soared.
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There are thirteen employees, sometimes fourteen when the work load grows especially heavy, but never fifteen.
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Many of these require frequent supervision and add to the work load of the warden.
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The work load had become too heavy for these two offices, still honorary, to remain combined.
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Therefore the work load should not be too heavy.
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In this way you will be sure to get through the work load .
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This was at a time when the work load was growing.
■ VERB
bring
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Once through the crust, tunnelling is easier and she brings out loads of sand, clutched between her forelegs.
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We brought a load of grunts with us, and they jumped off to join their fellows as soon as we landed.
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Each landing brought back a load of precious lunar samples.
carry
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We were relaxed and we were strong, so with the horses carrying the load the walk-in was a holiday.
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Any time you interrupt more than one joist, the adjacent joists must be doubled to carry the load .
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Without Prince to carry loads , John Durbeyfield could not buy and sell as he used to.
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It is natural for some people to carry a slightly heavier load because of ability, experience, motivation or pride.
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If you have to carry a heavy load , divide the weight between two bags.
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She carried the whole load , all the way.
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The shoulder straps are reinforced by a sheet of firm but flexible plastic which distributes and carries the load .
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They worked the neighborhoods instead of just going to City Hall and expecting the elected suits to carry the load .
get
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But once the forklifts arrived we could get the load off very quickly.Initally taking forty five minutes.
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And get a load of these turn signals.
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Marie's got loads of friends, and they all came to say goodbye.
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Did you get a load of that accordionist?
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I know I've got a load on.
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They'd all got loads of money.
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What delight to behave really badly and still get loads of sympathy!
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I got loads of plants now.
increase
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For young readers, however, the medially placed source marker is liable to increase the load on short-term memory.
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If, however, one introduces more robust representation schemes, then one may also increase the cognitive load on the author.
lighten
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I trust that this review has helped at least somewhat to lighten that load .
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He said school districts should reduce teacher paperwork, hire more clerical help and lighten teaching loads to reduce stress.
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So how about a new 12-place setting dishwasher to lighten the load ?
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Having lightened its load , crews hoped to float the barge out to sea Tuesday.
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Most probably they were thrown into the sea to lighten the load when the ship found itself in difficulties.
move
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Roughly four-fifths is thought to move as bed load including saltation, leaving only one-fifth to be accounted for by suspension.
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Horses and mules dropped down dead, exhausted with the effort to move their loads through the hideous medium.
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Fork truck moving with load raised. 23.
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For example, suppose a motor with the torque/speed characteristic shown in Fig.5.l has to move a load 1000 steps.
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It can take days to process the paperwork required to move a load across the frontier.
reduce
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In theory, this will reduce traffic load .
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But to do that would have reduced the load the floor would support.
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It also reduces the load on the tail-skid or wheel and makes it slip sideways more easily.
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So we wanted this systematic question to go right through Whitehall and to greatly reduce the functional load on departments.
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Insulation is important since it keeps out the hot ambient kitchen air, reducing the load on the refrigeration system.
spread
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More could be done to encourage flexible or staggered working hours and spread the traffic load .
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The best are fairly wide to spread the load and well padded - often with dual-density foam.
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Use of the top tensioners also helps to spread the load over the whole of the shoulder harness.
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The block of softwood can be used to spread the load when using the hammer.
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It's worth trying to draw up a list like this, because it ensures that you spread the load .
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Whether more participants spreads the load of sin is not altogether clear.
take
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Providing the income you will need after you stop work can take a load off your mind.
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Put your feet up. Take a load off.
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Hip belts Essential for backpacking rucksacks, the hip belt takes most of the load off the shoulders.
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He told her to sit down and take a load off.
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Note on a plan which internal walls take the structural load .
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Frye was expounding on the dangers of holding down a job while taking a full load of courses.
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I took a load - my uncle was a-driving that: I took another load down there with him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a loaded question
it/that is a load/weight off sb's mind
loaded dice
loaded with sth
shoot your load
sth is loaded against sb/sth
the dice/odds are loaded against sb/sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Load demand can exceed 66 percent during peak periods.
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a $1.2 billion debt load
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Evans was jailed for hijacking a lorry with a £30,000 load of spirits, tobacco and groceries.
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The first load of supplies will be arriving at the camp next week.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And they collected so much they had to use a milk float to deliver the load .
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Digestion is suspended and their food lies like a load in the stomach; fullness and distress come on immediately after eating.
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He spluttered a load of hip-hop banter as he danced around the drum.
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If you have to carry a heavy load , divide the weight between two bags.
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So there is a price to pay for the privilege of not paying an up front load .
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The lorries toiled steadily up the hill, occasionally shedding part of their loads.
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This requirement increases the listener's processing load , and leads to increased response latencies on the localisation task.
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Use of the top tensioners also helps to spread the load over the whole of the shoulder harness.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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In many cases, this loads down an essay with so many notes that it becomes difficult to read.
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They passed the last-minute shoppers loaded down with gifts wrapped in gold and silver paper rushing toward their high-rise condos.
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The table before them was loaded down with jellies and ice cream.
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Below the green Victorian wallpaper decorating the small den were wood paneling and shelving loaded down with books and videotapes.
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An hour later, loaded down with awkward orange life-jackets, she trailed her cousin down to the beach.
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Elaine was loaded down with towels, and bags full of swimwear and sun creams.
fully
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Allow each page you want to read to load fully and it will cache for reading Offline later.
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And expect to pay from the mid-teens to upward of $ 50, 000 for top-of-the-line, fully loaded models.
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The S that Ford chose to show off to the press was understandably a fully loaded one.
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Skepticism fully loaded , I agreed to meet with the dapper and charming McKenna.
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The pack's got to be comfortable when it's fully loaded .
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A fully loaded set can easily add $ 300 to the final cost.
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He wasn't shot and his pistol is fully loaded .
heavily
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If a machine is heavily loaded , its response times suffer.
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They were also very heavily loaded with ammunition.
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However. the departments involved are heavily loaded , and none of them want to contribute a key person for this purpose.
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Lightly loaded wings that fly slowly will be more affected by these alterations than heavily loaded wings that fly fast.
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According to news reports, one train had 19 coaches and the other 14, both heavily loaded .
■ NOUN
car
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She saw his sister and nephew next morning as she was loading her car with her carvings to take to the hospital.
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Outside, though, as he loaded it into the car , he was surprised to feel a sudden surge of confidence.
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Just pack your bags and load up the car , and leave all the other arrangements to me.
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Another went to the bakery warehouse, loaded her car , and created a pastry sculpture in the middle of her kitchen.
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Taking the boats out of the water and loading them on the cars is a chore.
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In the morning, after another excellent breakfast prepared by our hostess, we load our car .
cargo
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During the next four weeks we steamed from one port to another, unloading and loading a variety of cargoes .
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The berths were practically dry at low water and vessels lay aground on the mud bottom whilst loading and discharging their cargoes .
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I moved about uncomfortably, listening to the thumps on the roof as they loaded up the cargo .
dishwasher
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They were standing in the kitchen loading the dishwasher and putting the salads in the fridge when a picture caught her eye.
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Together, it took them only a few minutes to load the dishwasher .
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On the other hand it takes no time at all to load a dishwasher .
file
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The file specifications will be documented, and users wishing to load their own files must convert them into the Okapi format.
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Remember to load and save the file in plain text mode.
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The table was loaded with files and books about the Stuarts.
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You can load your file into Word later.
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His dining room table was frequently loaded with files of papers.
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I loaded the file and the first three lines were full of fall-out from the crash.
goods
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By this time the respondent had loaded the goods into a van and rejoined Mr. A. in the key department.
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The defendant helped to load the goods into Ballay's van.
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Every time he went abroad with the company he came back loaded up with western goods .
gun
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But then she'd practically loaded the gun that had shot her down and handed it to him.
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But he did carry a loaded gun , finally, just for Jack.
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I heard him shout back as he retired, loading his gun .
machine
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More faces can easily be loaded on to a machine , like stocking a larder with exotic ingredients.
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By that time the respondent had loaded the machine into his van and had rejoined his employer in the key department.
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They would then take the loaded machine to the Royal Aircraft College, Cranwell for its next passing out parade.
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Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine .
program
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The program can load any of a dozen formats and convert the image to any other output style.
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From then on, every time the program loads , it sends the string to the modem to set it up.
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So I got out the original word processor program disks and loaded them into the directory.
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And the program is still loaded with glitches.
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In order for this to work, the machine code program must be loaded into the same address each time.
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It is a relatively compact program and thus loads quickly.
ship
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Dispute about the safety of the operation led to dockers being asked to volunteer for the work of loading the ship .
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By the early 1950s he had his own firm, loading ships .
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So many people worked loading the ships that the owners had decided it would be a good policy.
software
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By comparison, Oracle is talking about a stripped-down computer with no capabilities to load software or store information.
truck
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We loaded the trucks up again and at 5.00 am on 27 December 1984, we left.
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She tested a couple aluminum bats as the equipment was loaded into trucks .
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When the first container was loaded on to a truck it was so heavy all four tyres promptly exploded.
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The sirens went off, and we were loaded into trucks and told we were going out there as a reaction force.
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And his foreman makes sure the containers are loaded on to the trucks and dumped over the border.
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The boat broke up and Roman used the lumber to make a ramp to load hogs on the truck .
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Crews are compressing, baling and then loading the tires on to trucks for a six-hour drive to an Arizona recycler.
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She watched her husband and a Home of Guiding Hands work crew carry out their other belongings and load them into trucks .
van
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The badgers are loaded into vans for the 4 hour drive to Yorkshire.
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Why are you loading this van when some one lives here?
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The assistant returned to see the respondent carrying the goods towards the main exit and loading them into a van .
vehicle
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The team want to load this vehicle with medical, food and other essential supplies.
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By 7: 30 a. m., Bravo Company was loaded aboard 14 assault vehicles .
weapon
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They shall load your weapons on to carts and follow you. only be sure you ride back to Pantai.
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At length, the handsome cowboy surprised the ugly one loading his weapon .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a loaded question
it/that is a load/weight off sb's mind
loaded dice
loaded with sth
sth is loaded against sb/sth
the dice are loaded
the dice/odds are loaded against sb/sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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LOAD is a command which loads a new program from the file.
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Loading the van was hard work.
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A woman was loading groceries into her car.
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I started loading the boxes into the truck.
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The program can be encoded on the disc's surface and then loaded into the microprocessor.
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This giant machine can load up a 10-ton truck every few minutes.
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This program takes a while to load .
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Trucks loaded with food and medicine waited at the border.
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Trucks may not stop on city streets to load or unload between 11 and 6.
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Two men were loading up a truck with boxes of melons.
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Wait a minute - I need to load my camera.
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When the planes are fully loaded, they aren't able to take off from this runway, as it is too short.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anyhow, we loaded kelp for Glasgow.
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Ginter was unconscious when rescue workers loaded him on to a stretcher.
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It was loaded with product, much of it marvelous, all of it printed.
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The links aren't constantly updated but can be set to update whenever you load the document again.
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These latter pages can be loaded directly on to printing presses as plates.
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They were arrested after chaining themselves to cranes which were loading logs on to barges in the port of Kuala Baram.