load vs trace

load

noun
  • The volume of work required to be performed. 

  • 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. 

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

  • 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. 

trace

noun
  • The ground plan of a work or works. 

  • The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane. 

  • The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix. 

  • An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive. 

  • A residue of some substance or material. 

  • An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package. 

  • A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider. 

  • A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal. 

  • An act of tracing. 

  • A very small amount. 

  • One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug. 

  • An informal road or prominent path in an arid area. 

  • A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board. 

verb
  • To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step. 

  • To draw or sketch lightly or with care. 

  • To follow the trail of. 

  • To follow the history of. 

  • To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines. 

How often have the words load and trace occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )