beload

B3E1L1O1A1D2

verb

To load up; charge; burden.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

verbbeload (third-person singular simple present beloads, present participle beloading, simple past and past participle beloaded)

present singular third person beloads · participle present beloading · participle past beloaded · past beloaded

  1. transitiveTo load up; charge; burden.

    We apply it to beload sediment transport problems.

    2007, Luis López Bonilla, Miguel Moscoso, Gloria Platero, Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2006
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    As for W. himself, in interpreting he always misses the important point, and in translating he avoids simplicity and aiming at scholarship and depth, he beloads the subject & makes business more difficult.

    1986, Sir Robert Hart, Katherine Frost Bruner, John King Fairbank, Entering China's service: Robert Hart's journals, 1854-1863

    The purpose of the following exercises is to provide an understanding of the respective methodologies associated with sampling and measurement of suspended sediment concentration and beload discharge in streams.

    1996, F. Richard Hauer, Gary Anthony Lamberti, Methods in stream ecology

Origin

From be- + load. Compare Old English belādian (“to excuse, absolve from an obligation, let off”, literally “to unload, discharge”).

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