LOADER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loader mean? 

• LOADER (noun)
  The noun LOADER has 2 senses:

1. a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

2. an attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game

  Familiarity information: LOADER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOADER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dock-walloper; dock worker; docker; dockhand; dockworker; loader; longshoreman; lumper; stevedore

Hypernyms ("loader" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Derivation:

load (fill or place a load on)

load (put (something) on a structure or conveyance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An attendant who loads guns for someone shooting game

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("loader" is a kind of...):

attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)

Derivation:

load (provide (a device) with something necessary)

 Context examples 

PCNA and RFC function as a clamp and a clamp loader.

(DNA Replication Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

In prokaryotes, the leading strand replication apparatus consists of a DNA polymerase (pol III core), a sliding clamp (beta), and a clamp loader (gamma delta complex).

(DNA Replication Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)