Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: loading
IPA transcription: [l'oʊdɪŋ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: load, loading, burden
    Meaning: weight to be borne or conveyed
  • Synonyms: load, loading
    Meaning: a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads"
Usage examples
  • "I think you're loading me,"
  • Negroes were at work on the wharf loading bales of cotton on a big ship.
  • The trained elephant does the work of twenty men piling logs, loading ships, or carrying burdens.
  • John Hays was one of the cannoneers of Greene's artillery and he worked all day loading and firing his piece.
  • So the people chose three men who could be trusted, and, loading them with money, sent them to Rome, bidding them to pretend that they were diviners of dreams.
  • Philip, evidently giving some directions to the negroes who were loading trunks and boxes into a cart, rode down the driveway just as Grace and Sylvia reached the entrance.
  • Some persons carry a piece of grease with them, when shooting in wet weather, and with it they smear the top of the nipple after each loading, before putting on the fresh cap.
  • The grain-elevator system is only the beginning of a revolution in this department which will not end until the loading and unloading of ships have become almost entirely the work of machinery.
  • Bullets, to carry.--Bullets should be carried sewn up in their patches, for the convenience of loading, and they should not fit too tight: a few may be carried bare, for the sake of rapid loading.
  • "One of the lower-deck loading ports could be left unlocked, by carelessness, and he could blunder overboard at about five thousand feet." He watched Harrington make a deceptively pointless-looking move.