different between backload vs uphold

English

Etymology

back +? load

Noun

backload (plural backloads)

1. A load carried on the return journey of a delivery vehicle.

Related terms

• backloading (noun)

Verb

backload (third-person singular simple present backloads, present participle backloading, simple past and past participle backloaded)

1. To load toward the back, or towards the end of a period.
2. (transport) To load (cargo, shipment, etc.) after unloading has been completed.
3. (transitive, military) To transport further toward the rear of the theater of war.
   • 1993, Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, International Military and Defense Encyclopedia: M-O (page 1601)

     Not only will repair and recovery be vital, but also the backloading of equipment casualties to farther rearward, better protected, and more specialized maintenance facilities.

4. To fill a syringe with solution from the plunger end of the barrel.

Antonyms

• frontload

References

• “backload”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

From Middle English upholden, equivalent to up- +? hold. Compare Dutch ophouden (“to stop, cease, hold up”), German aufhalten (“to stop, halt, detain”). Compare also Middle Low German upholt, Old Norse upphald (“uphold, support”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?hold/

Verb

uphold (third-person singular simple present upholds, present participle upholding, simple past upheld, past participle upheld or (archaic) upholden)

1. To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
2. To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
3. To support by approval or encouragement, to confirm (something which has been questioned)
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 18:

     but there was still a connexion upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other.

Derived terms

• upholdatory (rare, obsolete, nonce word)

Translations

References

• uphold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Notes:

Anagrams

• hold up, hold-up, holdup