LOADING

To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

Example: "The dock workers refused to load the ship."

To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.

Example: "He loaded his stuff into his storage locker."

To put a load on something.

Example: "The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading."

To receive a load.

Example: "The truck is designed to load easily."

To be placed into storage or conveyance.

Example: "The containers load quickly and easily."

To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.

Example: "I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. i had forgotten to load the gun."

To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.

Example: "Now that you've loaded the camera [with film], you're ready to start shooting."

To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.

Example: "The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore."

To be put into use in an apparatus.

Example: "The cartridge was designed to load easily."

To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

Example: "Click ok to load the selected data."

To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

Example: "This program takes an age to load."

To put runners on first, second and third bases

Example: "He walks to load the bases."

To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.

Example: "The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the conservative candidate."

To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.

To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.

Example: "The new owners had loaded the company with debt."

To provide in abundance.

Example: "He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon."

To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.

To adulterate or drug.

Example: "To load wine"

To magnetize.