The difference between Load and Wad

When used as nouns, load means a burden, whereas wad means an amorphous, compact mass.

When used as verbs, load means to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage), whereas wad means to crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.

check bellow for the other definitions of Load and Wad

  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. Wad as a noun:

    An amorphous, compact mass.

    Examples:

    "Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper."

  2. Wad as a noun:

    A substantial pile (normally of money).

    Examples:

    "With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan"

  3. Wad as a noun:

    A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.

  4. Wad as a noun (slang):

    A sandwich.

  5. Wad as a noun (slang, vulgar):

    An ejaculation of semen.

  1. Wad as a verb:

    To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.

    Examples:

    "She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash."

  2. Wad as a verb (Ulster):

    To wager.

  3. Wad as a verb:

    To insert or force a wad into.

    Examples:

    "to wad a gun"

  4. Wad as a verb:

    To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.

    Examples:

    "to wad a cloak"

  1. Wad as a noun (mineralogy):

    Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.

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