reload

present singular third person reloads · participle present reloading · participle past reloaded · past reloaded

1. To load (something) again.

   The train has only a short distance left to its destination at Swinden Quarry, where the wagons will be reloaded.

   2021 July 14, “Modern Images”, in RAIL, number 935, page 37, photo caption

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   If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.

   2011, Rebekah Modrak, Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice

   1. computingTo refresh a copy of a program etc. in memory or of a web page etc. on screen
   2. engineeringTo load a gun again; or recharge a used cartridge.

      Naturally after firing solidly for five minutes without reloading Arnie has wiped out all the bad dudes and thumbs a lift to the nearest town.

      1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 128

   3. entertainmentTo replay music in a DJ set.

      We're gonna make the stars come out tonight. So why don't you reload,reload, re reload the music?

      2013 February 15, “Reload” (track 3), in The Ascent, performed by Wiley, Ms D, and Chip

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      [Verse 2:Kano]:[…]Mad, reload ting. Pop, pop, pop that's a reload ting. And when I say "It's Kano in the house", everybody knows that's a reload ting.

      2016 March 4, “3 Wheel-Ups” (track 4), in Made in the Manor, performed by Kano (British musician),Giggs (rapper),Wiley (musician)

plural reloads

1. The process by which something is reloaded.

   Each reload of the weapon took about 30 seconds.

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   Waddicor will be here for a while. The double shunts take an hour. But it's a scheduled four-hour reload and layover, ahead of his return train back to Didcot.

   2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “A driver's eye view of East West Rail”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 35

2. engineeringAn ammunition cartridge prepared from previously fired ammunition.
3. entertainmentA repeated track on a DJ set.