The difference between Freight and Load
When used as nouns, freight means payment for transportation, whereas load means a burden.
When used as verbs, freight means to transport (goods), whereas load means to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
check bellow for the other definitions of Freight and Load
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Freight as a noun:
Payment for transportation.
Examples:
"The freight was more expensive for cars than for coal."
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Freight as a noun:
Goods or items in transport.
Examples:
"The freight shifted and the trailer turned over on the highway."
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Freight as a noun:
Transport of goods.
Examples:
"They shipped it ordinary freight to spare the expense."
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Freight as a noun (figurative):
Cultural or emotional associations.
Examples:
"A wedding ring is small, but it has massive emotional freight."
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Freight as a verb (transitive):
To transport (goods).
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Freight as a verb:
To load with freight. Also figurative.
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Load as a noun:
A burden; a weight to be carried.
Examples:
"I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack."
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Load as a noun (figuratively):
A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
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Load as a noun:
A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
Examples:
"The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil."
"She put another load of clothes in the washing machine."
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Load as a noun (in combination):
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Load as a noun (often, in the plural, colloquial):
A large number or amount.
Examples:
"I got loads of presents for my birthday!"
"I got a load of emails about that."
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Load as a noun:
The volume of work required to be performed.
Examples:
"Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?"
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Load as a noun (engineering):
The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
Examples:
"Each of the cross-members must withstand a tensile load of 1,000 newtons."
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Load as a noun (electrical engineering):
The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
Examples:
"I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high."
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Load as a noun (engineering):
A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
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Load as a noun (electrical engineering):
Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
Examples:
"Connect a second 24 ohm load across the power supply's output terminals."
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Load as a noun:
A unit of measure for various quantities.
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Load as a noun:
A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
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Load as a noun:
The charge of powder for a firearm.
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Load as a noun (obsolete):
Weight or violence of blows.
Examples:
"rfquotek Milton"
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Load as a noun (vulgar, slang):
The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
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Load as a noun (euphemism):
Nonsense; rubbish.
Examples:
"What a load!"
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Load as a noun (computing):
The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
Examples:
"All of those uncompressed images are going to slow down the page load."
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Load as a verb (transitive):
To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
Examples:
"The dock workers refused to load the ship."
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Load as a verb (transitive):
To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
Examples:
"The longshoremen loaded the cargo quickly."
"He loaded his stuff into his storage locker."
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Load as a verb (intransitive):
To put a load on something.
Examples:
"The truck was supposed to leave at dawn, but in fact we spent all morning loading."
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Load as a verb (intransitive):
To receive a load.
Examples:
"The truck is designed to load easily''."
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Load as a verb (intransitive):
To be placed into storage or conveyance.
Examples:
"The containers load quickly and easily''."
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Load as a verb (transitive):
To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
Examples:
"I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun."
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Load as a verb (transitive):
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.
Examples:
"Now that you've loaded the film you're ready to start shooting."
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Load as a verb (transitive):
To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
Examples:
"The workers loaded the blast furnace with coke and ore."
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Load as a verb (intransitive):
To be put into use in an apparatus.
Examples:
"The cartridge was designed to load easily."
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Load as a verb (transitive, computing):
To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
Examples:
"Click OK to load the selected data."
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Load as a verb (intransitive, computing):
To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
Examples:
"This program takes an age to load."
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Load as a verb (transitive, baseball):
To put runners on first, second and third bases
Examples:
"He walks to load the bases."
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Load as a verb (transitive):
To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
Examples:
"You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview."
"The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate."
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Load as a verb (transitive):
To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
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Load as a verb (transitive):
To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
Examples:
"The new owners had loaded the company with debt."
"The new owners loaded debt on the company."
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Load as a verb (transitive):
To provide in abundance.
Examples:
"He loaded his system with carbs before the marathon."
"He loaded carbs into his system before the marathon."
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Load as a verb (transitive):
To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead.
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Load as a verb (transitive, archaic, slang):
To adulterate or drug.
Examples:
"to load wine"
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Load as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To magnetize.
Examples:
"rfquotek Prior"