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Adjective loading has 1 sense
- loading - designed for use in loading e.g. cargo; "a loading dock"; "a loading chute is used to drive cattle into a truck or other conveyance"
Antonym: unloading
Noun loading has 5 senses
- load, loading, burden - weight to be borne or conveyed
--1 is a kind of weight
--1 has particulars:
- load, loading - a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads"
--2 is a kind of indefinite quantity
--2 has particulars: trainload
- loading - the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift
--3 is a kind of ratio
--3 has particulars: power loading; span loading; wing loading
- cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment - goods carried by a large vehicle
--4 is a kind of merchandise, wares, product
- loading - the labor of loading something; "the loading took 2 hours"
--5 is a kind of handling
Antonyms: unloading
Verb load has 3 senses
- load, lade, laden, load up - fill or place a load on; "load a car"; "load the truck with hay"
--1 is one way to fill, fill up, make full
Sample sentence:
They load the cart with boxes
- load, charge - provide with munition; "He loaded his gun carefully"
--2 is one way to fill, fill up, make full
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- load - put (something) on a structure or conveyance; "load the bags onto the trucks"
--3 is one way to put, set, place, pose, position, lay
Sample sentence:
They load the books into the box
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