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obligation
English
Etymology
From Middle English obligacioun, from Old French obligacion, from Latin obligatio, obligationem, from obligatum (past participle of obligare), from ob- (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley?- (“to bind”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?b.l???e?.??n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
obligation (countable and uncountable, plural obligations)
- The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
- A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
- A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
- (law) A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.
- 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.
- 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with "obligation": moral, legal, social, contractual, political, mutual, military, perpetual, etc.
Synonyms
- (the act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone): commitment
- (requirement, duty, contract or promise): duty
Antonyms
- (requirement, duty, contract or promise): right
Related terms
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin obligatio, obligationem, from the verb oblig? (“tie together”).
Pronunciation
Noun
obligation f (plural obligations)
- obligation
Related terms
- obliger
Further reading
- “obligation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Noun
obligation
- Alternative form of obligacioun
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load
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)
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- (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.
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- 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.
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 172:
- The viral load
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- The charge of powder for a firearm.
- (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
- (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.
- 2006, John Patrick, Barely Legal, page 102
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- (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.
- 2009, Daniel Page, A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture (page 614)
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)
- (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- (intransitive) To put a load on something.
- (intransitive) To receive a load.
- (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- (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.
- (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
- (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.}}
- (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- (transitive) To provide in abundance.
- (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
- (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
- prepaid phone credit
Verb
load
- to top up or purchase phone credits
Estonian
Noun
load
- nominative plural of luba
Spanish
Verb
load
- (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of loar.
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