LOADS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loads mean? 

• LOADS (noun)
  The noun LOADS has 1 sense:

1. a large number or amount

  Familiarity information: LOADS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOADS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large number or amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

dozens; gobs; heaps; lashings; loads; lots; oodles; piles; rafts; scads; scores; slews; stacks; tons; wads

Context example:

she amassed stacks of newspapers

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

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

 Context examples 

Carbovir decreases HIV viral loads, retards or prevents the damage to the immune system, and reduces the risk of developing AIDS.

(Carbovir, NCI Thesaurus)

Their throwing arms are exposed to repeated mechanical loads, while their non-throwing arms aren’t.

(Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits, NIH, US)

As an overall conclusion, the study corroborates that schoolchildren who use backpacks should avoid carrying loads greater than 10% of their body weight.

(Researchers identify the maximum weight that children should carry in their school backpacks, University of Granada)

This agent decreases HIV viral loads, retards or prevents the damage to the immune system, and reduces the risk of developing AIDS.

(Abacavir, NCI Thesaurus)

“Dead zones,” also called hypoxia areas, are caused by nutrient runoff from agricultural and other human activities in the watershed and are highly affected by river discharge and nitrogen loads.

(2015 Gulf of Mexico dead zone ‘above average’, NOAA)

In combination with other antiretroviral drugs, nevirapine reduces HIV viral loads and increases CD4 counts, thereby retarding or preventing the damage to the immune system and reducing the risk of developing AIDS.

(Nevirapine, NCI Thesaurus)

As daily food intake loads acid into the body, urinary acid excretion is essential, and urine pH can drop as low as 4.5.

(Collecting Duct Acid Secretion Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

I have often beheld two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us, who, when they met in the street, would lay down their loads, open their sacks, and hold conversation for an hour together; then put up their implements, help each other to resume their burdens, and take their leave.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

With p53 monitoring DNA damage, either XPA loads and possibly orients an incision complex, containing ERCC1 and other repair factors, to the site of DNA damage or XPA, ERCC1, and ERCC4 proteins form a ternary complex that participates in both damage recognition and incision activities.

(DNA Excision Repair Protein ERCC-1, NCI Thesaurus)

They camp before a great city, and the base burghers come forth with the keys, and then they make great spoil; or, if it please them better, they take so many horse-loads of silver as a composition; and so they journey on from state to state, rich and free and feared by all.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)