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English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d???/, [d????????]
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English drogge (“medicine”), from Middle French drogue (“cure, pharmaceutical product”), from Old French drogue, drocque (“tincture, pharmaceutical product”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German droge, as in droge vate (“dry vats, dry barrels”), mistaking droge for the contents, which were usually dried herbs, plants or wares. Droge comes from Middle Dutch dr?ghe (“dry”), from Old Dutch dr?gi (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *draugiz (“dry, hard”). Cognate with English dry, Dutch droog (“dry”), German trocken (“dry”).

Noun

drug (plural drugs)

1. (pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pharmaceutical
2. A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:recreational drug

   • 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Harper Perennial 2005 edition, page 3:

     We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

   • March 1991, unknown student, "Antihero opinion", SPIN, page 70

     You have a twelve-year-old kid being told from the time he's like five years old that all drugs are bad, they're going to screw you up, don't try them. Just say no. Then they try pot.

   • 2005, Thomas Brent Andrews, The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs, Chronic Discontent Books, ?ISBN, page 19

     The only thing working against the poor Drug Abuse Resistance Officer is high-school students. ... He'd offer his simple lesson: Drugs are bad, people who use drugs are bad, and abstinence is the only answer.

3. Anything, such as a substance, emotion, or action, to which one is addicted.
   • 2005, Jack Haas, Om, Baby!: a Pilgrimage to the Eternal Self, page 8

     Inspiration is my drug. Such things as spirituality, booze, travel, psychedelics, contemplation, music, dance, laughter, wilderness, and ribaldry — these have simply been the different forms of the drug of inspiration for which I have had great need […]

   • 2010, Kesha Rose Sebert (Ke$ha), with Pebe Sebert and Joshua Coleman (Ammo), Your Love is My Drug
4. Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
   • 1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius

     And virtue shall a drug become.

   • 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews

     But sermons are mere drugs.

5. (Canada, US, informal) Short for drugstore.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist

     “I’ll go this far,” I answered him. “We’ll try going over to the drug. You, me, Ollie if he wants to go, one or two others. Then we’ll talk it over again.”

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "drug": dangerous, illicit, illegal, psychoactive, generic, hard, veterinary, recreational

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

drug (third-person singular simple present drugs, present participle drugging, simple past and past participle drugged)

1. (transitive) To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent.

2. (transitive) To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone.

3. (intransitive) To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines.
   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     Past all the doses of your drugging doctors

Translations

Etymology 2

Germanic ablaut formation. If old, a doublet of drew, from Proto-Germanic *dr?g; compare Dutch droeg, German trug, Swedish drog. If secondary, probably formed by analogy with hang.

Verb

drug

1. (dialect) simple past tense and past participle of drag

   You look like someone drug you behind a horse for half a mile.

   • 1961 Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron

     […] their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in.

Usage notes

• Random House says that drug is "nonstandard" as the past tense of drag. Merriam-Webster once ruled that drug in this construction was "illiterate" but have since upgraded it to "dialect". The lexicographers of New World, American Heritage, and Oxford make no mention of this sense.

Etymology 3

Noun

drug (plural drugs)

1. (obsolete) A drudge.

Romanian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian drug.

Noun

drug m (plural drugi)

1. pole, stick

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *drug?, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *draugás, from Proto-Indo-European *d?rewg?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drû??/

Noun

dr?g m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro) friend
2. (dated) comrade (commonly used in parts of Former Yugoslavia among coworkers or friends)

Declension

Synonyms

• prijatelj
• drugar
• frend (slang, Croatia)

Derived terms

Related terms

• drugàrica
• drúga
• drùžica

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drú?k/

Adjective

dr?g (not comparable)

1. other, another, different

Inflection

See also

• drúgi

Further reading

• “drug”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• dru
• dröuw
• dryg

Etymology

From Old Norse drjúgr, from Proto-Germanic *dreugaz.

Adjective

drug (comparative drugänä, superlative drugest)

1. lasting
2. haughty

Related terms

• dryj
• drögt
• drögnä

English

Etymology

The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle English lode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old English l?d (“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laid? (“leading, way”), Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to go, go forth, die”), cognate with Middle Low German leide (“entourage, escort”), German Leite (“line, course, load”), Swedish led (“way, trail, line”), Icelandic leið (“way, course, route”)).As such, load is a doublet of lode, which has preserved the older meaning.

Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verb lade; however, Middle English lode occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verb load (“to charge with a load”) is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare),and (except for the participle laden) has largely supplanted lade in modern English.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /lo?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??d/
  • Homophones: lode, lowed
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

load (plural loads)

1. A burden; a weight to be carried.

2. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.

   • Our life's a load.

   • 2005, Coldplay, Green Eyes

     I came here with a load and it feels so much lighter, now I’ve met you.

3. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.

4. A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.

5. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
6. (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.

7. The volume of work required to be performed.

8. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.

9. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.

10. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
11. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.

12. A unit of measure for various quantities.
    • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 172:

      If this load equals its modern representative, it contains 18 cwt. of dry, 19 of new hay.

13. The viral load
14. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
15. The charge of powder for a firearm.
16. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
17. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
    • 2006, John Patrick, Barely Legal, page 102

      Already, Robbie had dumped a load into his dad, and now, before my very eyes, was Alan's own cock lube seeping out

    • 2009, John Butler Wanderlust, page 35

      It felt so good, I wanted to just keep going until I blew a load down his throat, but I hadn't even seen his ass yet, and I sure didn't want to come yet.

18. (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.

19. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
    • 2009, Daniel Page, A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture (page 614)

      This description represents a form of delay slot: the load operation takes some time to complete, say n cycles. Thus, the value loaded only becomes valid n cycles after the load seems to have executed and can therefore only be read after then.

Synonyms

• (unspecific heavy weight to be carried): charge, freight
• (unit of lead): fodder, fother, cartload, carrus, charrus
• (the contents of one's ejaculation): cumwad, wad

Hyponyms

• (¹?₁₂ cartload of wool & for smaller divisions): wey
• (¹?₃₀ cartload of lead & for smaller divisions): fotmal
• (¹?₃₆ cartload of straw or hay & for smaller divisions): truss

Derived terms

• see Category:English words derived from: load (noun)

Translations

Verb

load (third-person singular simple present loads, present participle loading, simple past loaded, past participle loaded or (archaic) loaden)

1. (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).

2. (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.

3. (intransitive) To put a load on something.

4. (intransitive) To receive a load.

5. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.

6. (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.

7. (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.

8. (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.

9. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.}}

10. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

11. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.

12. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases

13. (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.

14. (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
15. (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.

16. (transitive) To provide in abundance.

17. (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
18. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.

19. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.

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Derived terms

• See Category:English words derived from: load (verb)
• carbo-load
• load up
• reload

Translations

References

Anagrams

• -adol, -adol-, Aldo, alod, odal

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English load.

Noun

load

1. prepaid phone credit

Verb

load

1. to top up or purchase phone credits

Estonian

Noun

load

1. nominative plural of luba

Spanish

Verb

load

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of loar.