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onload

onload verb: to load onto or upon.

Verb

onload (third-person singular simple present onloads, present participle onloading, simple past and past participle onloaded)

  1. (transitive) To load onto or upon.
    • Also, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) from Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, was to onload at Jacksonville, Florida. On August 11, Military Traffic Management Command expanded operations by activating a team for sea terminal operations at Jacksonville, Florida.1993, Douglas Menarchik, Powerlift--getting to Desert Storm
    • Webb taxied to the FARP site, refueled, and then onloaded General Canavan and additional personnel for a re- turn flight to Monrovia.2001, The Praetorian STARShip : the untold story of the Combat Talon

Noun

onload (plural onloads)

  1. That which is onloaded.
    • By reducing the transaction costs of Indiana onloads and offloads of cargo relative to out-of-state onloads and offloads of cargo, the in Indiana exemption makes the petitioners more likely to make onloads and offloads of cargo for their Indiana customers.1999, North Eastern Reporter - second series - volume 715, page 32

onload meaning in Urdu

onload in Urdu

سامان چڑھانا

Examples of onload in a sentence

  • Ship to Shore Cranes Ship to shore container cranes are giant industrial cranes designed to onload and offload ocean freight containers from ocean vessels to dock side port facilities.2004-2008, Illustrated Guide to Ocean Freight Containers
  • The interface to onload tasks is similar to that of workqueues but semantically richer and designed for parallel operations.2014, Dieter an Mey, Michael Alexander, Bientinesi Paolo, Euro-Par 2013:

Antonyms of onload

Forms of onload

Verb
third-person singular presentonloads
present participleonloading
past participleonloaded
pastonloaded
Noun
pluralonloads

Origin of onload

From on- + load.

Questions about onload

What does onload mean?
Onload means to load onto or upon.
What is onload in Urdu?
Onload in Urdu is سامان چڑھانا. See Onload meaning in Urdu.
How do you use onload in a sentence?
Ship to Shore Cranes Ship to shore container cranes are giant industrial cranes designed to onload and offload ocean freight containers from ocean vessels to dock side port facilities.
What part of speech is onload?
Onload can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of onload?
The past tense of onload is onloaded.

Words near onload in the dictionary

  1. onliners
  2. onlines
  3. onliness
  4. onlining
  5. Onllwyn
  6. onload
  7. onloaded
  8. onloading
  9. onloads
  10. onloan
  11. onloaned

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: onload (page history and authors); onload (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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