butt vs load

butt

noun
  • A used cigarette. 

  • The joint where two planks in a strake meet. 

  • A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt. 

  • The buttocks (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass). 

  • The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks. 

  • The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts. 

  • The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll. 

  • A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. 

  • A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed. 

  • An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe. 

  • Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot 

  • A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread. 

  • The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury. 

  • A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge. 

  • The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib. 

  • A mark to be shot at; a target. 

  • A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering. 

  • The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose. 

  • The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice. 

  • A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. 

  • The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat. 

  • The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired. 

  • A thrust in fencing. 

  • Body; self. 

  • A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons. 

verb
  • To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. 

  • To strike bluntly, particularly with the head. 

  • To strike bluntly with the head. 

load

noun
  • A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar. 

  • The charge of powder for a firearm. 

  • A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind. 

  • A burden; a weight to be carried. 

  • The volume of work required to be performed. 

  • A unit of measure for various quantities. 

  • The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation. 

  • Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit. 

  • The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc. 

  • The viral load 

  • A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time. 

  • Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle 

  • Nonsense; rubbish. 

  • prepaid phone credit 

  • The electrical current or power delivered by a device. 

  • A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work. 

  • A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle. 

  • A large number or amount. 

  • The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc. 

verb
  • To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage). 

  • To put runners on first, second and third bases 

  • To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome. 

  • To provide in abundance. 

  • To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage. 

  • To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar. 

  • To receive a load. 

  • To be placed into storage or conveyance. 

  • To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance. 

  • to top up or purchase phone credits 

  • To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory. 

  • To be put into use in an apparatus. 

  • To put a load on something. 

  • To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way. 

  • 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. 

  • To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory. 

  • To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition. 

  • To fill (an apparatus) with raw material. 

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