onload

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verb

To load onto or upon.

Opposite
UncommonScrabble 7

Meanings

verbonload (third-person singular simple present onloads, present participle onloading, simple past and past participle onloaded)

present singular third person onloads · participle present onloading · participle past onloaded · past onloaded

  1. transitiveTo load onto or upon.

    The interface to onload tasks is similar to that of workqueues but semantically richer and designed for parallel operations.

    2014, Dieter an Mey, Michael Alexander, Bientinesi Paolo, Euro-Par 2013
    3 more examples

    Also, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) from Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, was to onload at Jacksonville, Florida. On August 11, Military Traffic Management Command expanded operations by activating a team for sea terminal operations at Jacksonville, Florida.

    1993, Douglas Menarchik, Powerlift--getting to Desert Storm

    Webb taxied to the FARP site, refueled, and then onloaded General Canavan and additional personnel for a re- turn flight to Monrovia.

    2001, The Praetorian STARShip : the untold story of the Combat Talon

    Ship to Shore Cranes Ship to shore container cranes are giant industrial cranes designed to onload and offload ocean freight containers from ocean vessels to dock side port facilities.

    2004-2008, Illustrated Guide to Ocean Freight Containers
nounonload (plural onloads)

plural onloads

  1. That which is onloaded.

    By reducing the transaction costs of Indiana onloads and offloads of cargo relative to out-of-state onloads and offloads of cargo, the in Indiana exemption makes the petitioners more likely to make onloads and offloads of cargo for their Indiana customers.

    1999, North Eastern Reporter - second series - volume 715, page 32

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APA

onload. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onload

MLA

“onload.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onload. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “onload,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onload.

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