Meanings (ES + gloss)
carga • escollo • lastre • rémora
A burden; a weight to be carried.
I struggled up the hill with the heavy load in my rucksack.
carga • cargamento • cargazón • carguío • estiba • flete
A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
She put another load of clothes in the washing machine.
The truck overturned while carrying a full load of oil.
sarta
A large number or amount.
I got a load of emails about that.
I got loads of presents for my birthday!
carga
The volume of work required to be performed.
Will our web servers be able to cope with that load?
carga
The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
I'm worried that the load on that transformer will be too high.
Phrases
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Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cargar • estibar • fletar
To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
The dock workers refused to load the ship.
cargarse
To receive a load.
The truck is designed to load easily.
cargar
To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
cargar
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.
Now that you've loaded the camera [with film], you're ready to start shooting.
Now that you've loaded the film [into the camera], you're ready to start shooting.
cargar
To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
Click OK to load the selected data.
trucar
To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
The wording of the ballot paper loaded the vote in favour of the Conservative candidate.
You can load the dice in your favour by researching the company before your interview.
Phrases