different between loading vs glazing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?lo?.di?/
• Hyphenation: loa?ding

Noun

loading (countable and uncountable, plural loadings)

1. (countable, uncountable) The process by which something is loaded.

2. (countable) A load, especially in the engineering and electrical engineering senses of force exerted, or electrical current or power supplied.
3. (Australia, industrial relations, countable) A hourly pay rate given to a casual employee which is higher than the equivalent full-time or part-time employee's rate, usually paid to compensate for a lack of benefits such as sick leave or annual leave.
4. A weighting or bias.
   • 2013, H. J. Eysenck, Experiments in Personality (volume 2, page 238)

     We may note with some surprise that the hysteria scale has a positive loading on this factor, i.e. is situated towards the normal rather than the neurotic end.

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Verb

loading

1. present participle of load

Derived terms

• command-loading

Anagrams

• Galindo, digonal

English

Etymology

From Middle English glasyng; equivalent to glaze +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??le?z??/

Verb

glazing

1. present participle of glaze

Noun

glazing (countable and uncountable, plural glazings)

1. The part of a window or wall made of glass or another transparent material.
2. (architecture) All the windows of a building.
3. The art of covering with a vitreous substance.
4. (art) Semi-transparent colours painted thinly over others to modify the effect.

Derived terms

• glazing bar

Translations

Middle English

Noun

glazing

1. Alternative form of glasyng