(v.) A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.
(v.) The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.
(v.) That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits; as, a load of care.
(v.) A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.
(v.) The charge of a firearm; as, a load of powder.
(v.) Weight or violence of blows.
(v.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working.
(v. t.) To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon.
(v. t.) To adulterate or drug; as, to load wine.
(v. t.) To magnetize.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(2) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(3) Spermine clearly activated 45Ca uptake by coupled mitochondria, but had no effect on Ca2+ egress from mitochondria previously loaded with 45Ca.
(4) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(5) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
(6) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(7) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(8) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
(9) Over the course of 26-40 h the Na- and water-loaded cells returned to a normal state of hydration as judged by their density.
(10) Subjects who trained an additional 52 wk showed a slight drop in SV at submaximal work loads from the initial increase following the first 9 wk.
(11) For the non-emergency admissions, the low-load physicians' patients had an average LOS that was 56.2% greater and an average hospital cost that was 58.3% greater than were the LOS and cost of the patients of the high-load physicians.
(12) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
(13) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
(14) In the water-loaded state, MAP rose significantly at the lowest rate of infusion in both pregnant and non-pregnant ewes.
(15) Respiratory muscle endurance at a given level of load was assessed from the time of exhaustion and from the time course of the change in the power spectrum (centroid frequency) of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG).
(16) Regressional analysis of relations between loads and the level of inbreeding in the Adyg population showed the explicit interrelation between the load of autosomal-dominant diseases and the Fst correlation coefficient being 0.89.
(17) 9 Women performed plantarflexion and dorsalflexion with maximum strength and at constant load of 60% MVC to exhaustion.
(18) In PSS amiloride and EIPA each had a small inhibitory effect on the pH recovery after an acid load.
(19) Also blacks differ from whites in 2 ways that could be relevant for their increased prevalence of hypertension: they excrete sodium loads more slowly and have a markedly lower urinary kallikrein.
(20) Calcium loading to erythrocytes in vitro caused a greater decrease in the membrane fluidity in essential hypertension than in the normotensive controls.
Onus
Definition:
(n.) A burden; an obligation.
Example Sentences:
(1) There’s no doubt there was a tactical setback, although Ramadi had been vulnerable for a very long time.” The president put the onus on Iraqis to find a solution.
(2) The onus is now on Michael Garcia, the former New York attorney who has already spent a reported £6m and travelled the world collecting evidence for a report that is due to be passed to the adjudicatory chamber of Fifa's ethics committee later this year, to prove he has taken the new evidence seriously.
(3) As the talks quickly broke down in Luxembourg, in Brussels, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, promptly convened an emergency leaders’ summit on Monday evening, putting the onus on both Merkel and Tsipras as the two key leaders to bend towards concessions to clinch a deal.
(4) In trachoma, the lack of simple definitive laboratory diagnostic procedures suitable for wide application has placed the onus largely, and usually exclusively, on clinical observation.The study reported is based on the recorded observations of two skilled ophthalmologists in an epidemiological survey covering more than 35 000 persons in Taiwan.
(5) With three weeks left to election day, the onus is on Obama to mount a strong comeback in Tuesday's Long Island debate to undo some of the damage caused by his dismal showing in the first of the presidential debates in Denver a fortnight ago.
(6) One of the big reasons why people aren’t able to make very effective transitions from one job to another is that their skills aren’t up to date and a major contributor to that is not having the opportunity to train.” Individuals have to take ownership of their careers, he says, but there is also an onus on the government and employers to provide work programmes and apprenticeships to maintain a skilled older workforce.
(7) At other banks the onus seems to be on customers to spot all rogue payments.
(8) Various radical plans for tackling the crisis have been floated, including putting the onus on north African countries to patrol the seas and process migrants in their own transit camps.
(9) Increasingly our standards we will be judged against the behaviour of other companies and agencies, with the onus to show that we operate to the highest standards.
(10) "The onus is on us to help the best we can but we can't do something for nothing," he said.
(11) The onus was on the players who had not played as much to come in, take up the challenge and show what they had got for next season – and for the young lads to come in and show that they would love to have this opportunity to play on a regular basis,” said Sam Allardyce.
(12) Nagpaul says: “There is real potential here if it works effectively, but the onus is on NHS England to get it right.
(13) The onus should be on those who want to make such large changes, and to profit from them, to demonstrate their quality - the more conspicuous a building the more important it is that it is well-designed.
(14) Brandis also rejected concerns the national security legislation reversed the onus of proof on people suspected of being terrorists and said arguments the legislation allowed Asio to torture people were a “red herring”.
(15) But the onus is on his leave colleagues now to prove their case, that leave would not harm Britain but benefit it.
(16) And the reason why we haven't had a prosecution is because we're putting the onus on young children to actually come forward, so we're talking about working with cutters but that's in Africa.
(17) Mike van Dulken, Head of Research at Accendo Markets , explains: While Italian political chaos likely to persist as discussions take place on coalition formation, investors still looked to put more onus on US Fed Chairman’s statement that quantitative easing was here to stay.
(18) The latest loss to Southampton prompted the Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich, to issue a public vote of confidence in the manager, with the onus now on the Portuguese to instigate a revival beginning with Saturday’s visit of Aston Villa to Stamford Bridge.
(19) The onus in legislation is on the disabled person getting their rights enforced rather than the employer.
(20) 3.03am BST 26 mins Jamaica haven't yet really troubled the US goal too much and the onus is on them to do so.