The difference between Load and Lot

When used as nouns, load means a burden, whereas lot means a large quantity or number.

When used as verbs, load means to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage), whereas lot means to allot.

check bellow for the other definitions of Load and Lot

  1. Load as a noun:

    A burden; a weight to be carried.

    Examples:

    "I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack."

  2. Load as a noun (figuratively):

    A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.

  3. 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."

  4. Load as a noun (in combination):

  5. 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."

  6. Load as a noun:

    The volume of work required to be performed.

    Examples:

    "Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?"

  7. 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."

  8. 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."

  9. Load as a noun (engineering):

    A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.

  10. 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."

  11. Load as a noun:

    A unit of measure for various quantities.

  12. Load as a noun:

    A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.

  13. Load as a noun:

    The charge of powder for a firearm.

  14. Load as a noun (obsolete):

    Weight or violence of blows.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Milton"

  15. Load as a noun (vulgar, slang):

    The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.

  16. Load as a noun (euphemism):

    Nonsense; rubbish.

    Examples:

    "What a load!"

  17. 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."

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. 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."

  4. Load as a verb (intransitive):

    To receive a load.

    Examples:

    "The truck is designed to load easily''."

  5. Load as a verb (intransitive):

    To be placed into storage or conveyance.

    Examples:

    "The containers load quickly and easily''."

  6. 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."

  7. 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."

  8. Load as a verb (transitive):

    To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.

    Examples:

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

  9. Load as a verb (intransitive):

    To be put into use in an apparatus.

    Examples:

    "The cartridge was designed to load easily."

  10. 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."

  11. Load as a verb (intransitive, computing):

    To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

    Examples:

    "This program takes an age to load."

  12. Load as a verb (transitive, baseball):

    To put runners on first, second and third bases

    Examples:

    "He walks to load the bases."

  13. 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."

  14. 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.

  15. 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."

  16. 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."

  17. Load as a verb (transitive):

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

  18. Load as a verb (transitive, archaic, slang):

    To adulterate or drug.

    Examples:

    "to load wine"

  19. Load as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To magnetize.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Prior"

  1. Lot as a noun:

    A large quantity or number; a great deal.

    Examples:

    "to spend a lot of money; lots of people think so"

  2. Lot as a noun:

    A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.

    Examples:

    "a lot of stationery"

  3. Lot as a noun:

    One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.

  4. Lot as a noun (informal):

    A number of people taken collectively.

    Examples:

    "a sorry lot; a bad lot'"

  5. Lot as a noun:

    A distinct portion or of land, usually smaller than a field.

    Examples:

    "a building lot in a city"

  6. Lot as a noun:

    That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

  7. Lot as a noun:

    Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.

    Examples:

    "to cast lots; to draw lots'"

  8. Lot as a noun:

    The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.

  9. Lot as a noun:

    A prize in a lottery.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Evelyn"

  10. Lot as a noun:

    Allotment; lottery.

  11. Lot as a noun (definite, '''the lot'''):

    All members of a set; everything.

    Examples:

    "The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot."

    "If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them."

  12. Lot as a noun:

    An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.

  1. Lot as a verb (transitive, dated):

    To allot; to sort; to apportion.

  2. Lot as a verb (US, informal, dated):

    To count or reckon (on or upon).

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