unload
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʌnˈləʊd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ʌnˈloʊd/
- Rhymes: -əʊd
Verb
unload (third-person singular simple present unloads, present participle unloading, simple past and past participle unloaded)
- (transitive) To remove the load or cargo from (a vehicle, etc.).
- to unload a ship; to unload a camel
- (transitive) To remove (the load or cargo) from a vehicle, etc.
- to unload bales of hay from a truck
- (intransitive) To deposit one's load or cargo.
- 1998, Robert A Corbitt, Standard handbook of environmental engineering
- Some stations have collection vehicles unload on the floor, using a front loader to push material into the hopper.
- 1998, Robert A Corbitt, Standard handbook of environmental engineering
- (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To give vent to or express.
- 1984, John Arlott, David Rayvern Allen, Arlott on cricket: his writings on the game
- ...who bowled with such fury that he needed beer to give him something to sweat out, and who unloaded his emotions in words as hard as his bowling.
- 1984, John Arlott, David Rayvern Allen, Arlott on cricket: his writings on the game
- (transitive, computing) To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
- 1993, Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook
- When you unload a DLL, the memory and other system resources it is using will become available for use by other applications.
- 1993, Tony Martin, Lisa C Towell, The NewWave agent handbook
- (transitive) To discharge, pour, or expel.
- (transitive) To get rid of or dispose of.
- to unload unprofitable stocks
- (transitive) To deliver forcefully.
- (transitive, slang) To ejaculate, particularly within an orifice. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive) To draw the charge from.
- to unload a gun
Derived terms
Translations
take off or remove the load from something
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discharge cargo
discharge, pour or expel
give vent to or express
get rid of or dispose of
deliver something forcefully
confide in someone
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References
- unload in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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